# Determination Concerning a Petition To Add a Class of Employees to the Special Exposure Cohort
**AGENCY:**
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
HHS gives notice of a determination concerning a petition to add a class of employees from Superior Steel Company, in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA).
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Grady Calhoun, Director, Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-45, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1938, Telephone 1-877-222-7570. Information requests can also be submitted by email to *[email protected].*
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
On August 19, 2021, the Secretary of HHS determined that the following class of employees does not meet the statutory criteria for addition to the SEC as authorized under EEOICPA:
“All atomic weapons employees who worked in any area at Superior Steel Co. in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, during the period from January 1, 1952, through December 31, 1957.”
(Authority: 42 U.S.C.7384q.)
Frank J. Hearl,
Chief of Staff, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.