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S 916 111th Congress Senate

Ed Walker Memorial Act for Improvements to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program

Official title: A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Spe… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 28, 2009 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 28, 2009
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Ed Walker Memorial Act for Improvements to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) issue regulations for designating additional classes of employees, including those employed during a period of residual contamination, as members of the Special Exposure Cohort; and (2) determine whether workers employed at the Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna, New York, meet the requirements of this Act for membership in the Special Exposure Cohort.

Requires the Secretary to provide a report to Congress identifying facilities at which classes of employees were employed that meet the requirements for membership in the Special Exposure Cohort, as well as the number of classes and the number of employees in each class.

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Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Apr 28, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 916: Ed Walker Memorial Act for Improvements to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-916/
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"S. 916: Ed Walker Memorial Act for Improvements to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-916/.
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