[April 3, 1996]{.underline}

[NIEHS/DOE Worker Training Program]{.underline}

[Annual Progress Report for FY 1995]{.underline}

Based on the September 24, 1992 Interagency Agreement between NIEHS and
DOE, a worker safety and health training program was initiated as
authorized under Section 3131 of the National Defense Authorization Act
of 1992-93. On July 1, 1993, NIEHS made the first awards for conducting
needs assessment and direct training of DOE-related environmental
restoration and waste management workers and site emergency responders.
This progress report represents a summary of activities conducted
between September 1, 1994 and August 31, 1995.

Since the initiation of the Superfund Worker Training Grants Program in
1987, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
has developed a strong network of non-profit organizations that are
committed to protecting workers and their communities by delivering
high-quality, peer-reviewed safety and health curriculum to target
populations of hazardous waste workers and emergency responders.

The worker training program was originally authorized for five years (FY
87-91) by Congress with the passage of Section 126 of the Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA). The model program
encourages innovation for training difficult-to-reach populations by
addressing issues such as literacy, appropriate adult education
techniques, training quality improvement and other areas unaddressed
directly by the market place. The program enhances rather than replaces
private sector training responsibility by demonstrating new and
cost-effective training techniques and materials.

**Completion of a peer-reviewed competition for new DOE Worker Training
awards for training of hazardous waste workers and emergency responders
\-\--** After receiving concept clearance from the National Advisory
Environmental Health Sciences Council (NAEHSC) at its May 1994 meeting,
NIEHS developed a new Request for Applications (RFA) for cooperative
agreements in order to make new awards based on this additional funding.
A notice of availability was published in the NIH Guide to Grants and
Contracts on Friday, October 28, 1994 announcing that NIEHS would be
accepting new applications with a receipt date of January 20, 1995 and
would be planning to fund 15 to 20 new cooperative agreements over the
five year period, subject to the annual availability of funding. The
Request for Applications (RFA ES 95-001) referenced authorized funding
availability in a number of programs administered by NIEHS including the
DOE/NIEHS Worker Training Program (\$10 million from DOE).

A program briefing was held for potential applicants in early December
1994, which resulted in the development of additional evaluation
criteria for the Worker Training Program and the establishment of a new
receipt date (February 17, 1995) for applications. By the February 17,
1995 deadline, the NIEHS Division of Extramural Research and Training
(DERT) had received thirty (30) completed applications for worker
training cooperative agreements. Of the thirty applications, 17 were
from current grantees of the NIEHS Worker Training Program and 13 were
from newly competing institutions.

Based on the work of the Initial Review Group (IRG) in reviewing the
twenty-four applications, all twenty four applications were recommended
for further consideration, although some components in some applications
were not recommended for further consideration. Priorities for funding
are based on the rankings by the IRG as designated by the criteria in
the Request for Applications (RFA ES-95-001) for assessing program merit
and relevance.

The proposed funding plan for twenty new awardees to support worker
training activities has been developed based on the criteria established
by the PHS Grants Administration Manual in Part 118 at 118.3(c). Budget
adjustments in the proposed funding plan have been based on the training
needs of high risk populations, national geographic coverage in training
availability and the published program priorities for training support.
A briefing for relevant DOE staff was held on August 8, 1995 to receive
input on DOE priorities for the final funding plan. Adjustments were
made according to DOE suggestions. Review by the National Advisory
Environmental Health Sciences Council (NAEHSC) was completed on
September 14-15, 1995. A list of the new DOE awardees and program
descriptions are included in Appendix 2.

**Continuation of the first national Labor Market Study of Hazardous
Waste Workers and Emergency Responders\-\--** In conjunction with the
EPA-Superfund Labor Task Force and EPA-OSWER and DOE staff, NIEHS has
worked to develop a study protocol which can capture site specific,
environmental restoration employment data and can describe the workforce
which is involved in Superfund site cleanup projects. Through a
supplemental award, Ruttenberg & Associates has implemented the study
design to examine specific labor markets where Superfund cleanups have
already been carried out. A number of the primary cleanup sites in the
study has come from DOE environmental restoration projects. An Interim
Final Report, which examines over 20,000,000 hours of site specific
Superfund remediation work, is almost completed and will be reviewed by
EPA, NIEHS and outside peer reviewers before it is released.

**National Program Evaluation Project** \-\-- A summer project, NIEHS
supported a doctoral student as a summer intern to organize and
summarize the program evaluation data which has been produced by
individual awardees in the course of their training delivery. The
significant resources that have been allocated for NIEHS training awards
require that recipients demonstrate not only effective implementation,
but also positive impacts on the health and safety of trained workers.
The findings reported here clearly demonstrate that NIEHS grantees have
responded to the challenge for program evaluation and have documented
monumental changes in the health and safety of workers and communities
across the United States. A summary of this longer report is included as
Appendix 3.

**Award of a new contract for the continued operation and support for a
national clearinghouse on hazardous waste worker training \-\--** A new
RFP for operation of the clearinghouse function resulted in a new five
year contract award after a lengthy competitive process which was
completed in May 1995. NIEHS has continued to support the operation of
the National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training for
Hazardous Materials, Waste Operations and Emergency Response through a
contract with Ruth Ruttenberg and Associates, with a subcontract to the
George Meany Center for Labor Studies in Silver Springs, Maryland. The
Clearinghouse functions as a link between awardees of NIEHS Worker
Training cooperative agreements and other members of the general public
who are concerned with quality worker health and safety training. Tasks
of the Clearinghouse include, but are not limited to, the distribution
of curricula, research work to support the development of the NIEHS
Worker Training Program, cataloguing of training materials, and other
information pertaining to worker health and safety training for
hazardous materials, waste operations, and emergency response, as well
as other related activities. A summary of Clearinghouse activities is
provided in Appendix 4.

**Safety and Health Concerns of Emerging Environmental Restoration
Technology \--** A March 1995 technical workshop, organized by the
Clearinghouse, was the first of two Innovative Technology workshops
dealing with the integration of health and safety into the design of new
environmental remediation technologies. At the end of that conference a
working guidance document was developed. In November 1995, a second
workshop on innovative technology was be held and participants reviewed
and provided comments to the draft guidance documents to produce final
guidance on the integration of safety and health into the design of
innovative remediation technologies.

**Streamlining Pilots for DOE HAZWOPER Training** \-\-- As a joint
project with DOE-EH and DOE-EM, the NIEHS Worker Training Awardees
undertook a national project to streamline the modules which make up the
basic CERCLA cleanup worker training course. This project grew out of
the concern that there were redundancies and repetition in the course
which could be more efficiently reduced, without losing the high quality
of the overalll course content. Pilots of course modules were prepared
by different awardees and presented at the Hanford site through the
HAMMER program. This program is still nder development and review by the
DOE Richland area office.

**Summary**

In administering the Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program through an
Interagency Agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE), the NIEHS
ensures that the traditional peer review process of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) provides the essential framework for the
oversight of grant application reviews, and guidance of the program with
grants management activities and ongoing program administration.
Technical experts in toxicology, industrial hygiene, labor education and
hazardous waste management from both the public and private sectors have
played an ongoing role in assuring that NIEHS supported programs
demonstrate high technical merit and adhere to stringent standards for
quality control through periodic site reviews and an ongoing peer review
process.

Based on the agency\'s program experience over the past eight years, the
NIEHS has decided to continue to use cooperative agreements as the
appropriate mechanism for making awards to non-profit training
organizations for fiscal years 1995-99. Because of the substantial
programmatic involvement by NIEHS staff to ensure the consistency,
appropriateness and technical reliability of funded training programs,
the use of cooperative agreements appear to be a more suitable
instrument for supporting extramural training of hazardous waste workers
and emergency responders and assuring the delivery of high quality
safety and health programs to high-risk populations.

**[Appendix 1:]{.underline}**

**[Summary of DOE/NIEHS Worker Training Awards for FY
1995]{.underline}**

1\) [United Brotherhood of Carpenters]{.underline} \-\-\-- The United
Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) Health and Safety Fund has training
components for the EPA Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP),
the DOE HWWTP and the EPA Minority Worker Training Program (MWTP). The
target population are members of the five participating consortium
International Unions, or union training funds. These unions are: the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (UBC); the Ironworkers
National Training Fund (IW); the Painters and Allied Trades
Labor-Management Fund (PAT); the Sheetmetal Workers Training Fund (SW);
and the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons Union (OPC). All of these
unions perform construction and general industry work, as defined by
OSHA, on sites containing hazardous materials, or on sites where HAZMAT
operations are present or planned. These five unions represent 35% of
the organized construction workers in the United States and perform over
50% of all the construction work on remedial sites. The UBC consortium
plans to identify 6,120 journeymen and the target populations as defined
are appropriate and their access to them is evident.

2\) [Laborers/AGC]{.underline} \-\-- This proposal from the Laborers-AGC
(L-AGC) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) represents
a new joint effort. This application includes proposals for an EPA
Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program (HWWTP), a DOE HWWTP and an EPA
Minority Worker Training Program (MWTP). The proposals for the EPA and
DOE HWWTP include a joint venture between the Laborers-AGC (L-AGC)and
the IBT. In regard to their target populations, L-AGC and IBT members
are central to EPA superfund clean up work in this country. They have
demonstrated the need for trained environmental workers and their needs
assessment is outstanding. L/AGC and IBT are proposing special outreach
efforts to train undeserved worker groups. This includes efforts with
Native Americans, continued instruction in Spanish, and a new minority
worker initiative.

3\) [International Chemical Workers Union]{.underline} \-\-\-\-- ICWU,
in cooperation with United Steelworkers, the University of Cincinnati
and the Greater Cincinnati Occupational Health Center was first awarded
a training grant from NIEHS in 1987. In 1990-92 four additional unions
were added and two additional regional training centers began. This
project proposes to train over the next five years: 2,900 members at the
primary Cincinnati Center; 1,000 members at five regional facilities
(adding three new facilities); develop members of the Coalition of Black
Trade Unions (CBTU) as trainers, and expand the existing
train-the-trainers program to meet increased field training programs
which will reach an additional 12,500 workers over five years. To date,
corporations at 90 sites have sponsored training by the Center.
Extensive evaluation efforts have been conducted and will be continued
and expanded. The proposed expansion of the program includes a
partnership with the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), three
new regional facilities to train workers, and to initiate an annual
trainers conference with trainers from the 6 unions.

4\) [International Union of Operating Engineers]{.underline} \-\--This
application from the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE)
includes proposals for an EPA Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program
(HWWTP) and a DOE HWWTP. IUOE has developed a training plan to provide
hazardous materials health and safety training to its membership, in
particular the Hoisting and Portable (H&P) engineers and Stationary
Engineers. They plan to expand and administer their on‑going training
effort to ensure that their membership who could work in hazardous waste
cleanup have the skills to recognize and control hazards.

5\) [Alice Hamilton Consortium]{.underline} \-\-\-- This application
includes proposals for an EPA Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program
(HWWTP), a DOE HWWTP and an EPA Minority Worker Training Program (MWTP).
The Alice Hamilton Consortium includes the Alice Hamilton Occupational
Health Center (AHOHC), four local Committees on Occupational Safety and
Health (COSH groups), six international unions who represent primarily
construction workers in industries that generate and otherwise have to
handle hazardous materials, and two universities. The Department of
Health Education at University of Maryland will evaluate the project and
the Howard University School of Social Work will help provide access to
minority populations. COSH groups are independent local organizations
typically including representatives of workers, health and safety
professionals, and others. The purpose of this application is to reach
members of the represented unions and others to provide awareness level
and operations level training.

6\) [Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union]{.underline} \-\-\-- This
application from the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW)
includes proposals for an EPA Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program
(HWWTP), a DOE HWWTP and a DOT HWWTP. Specific aims of this proposal are
to \"raise the standard of safety and health training throughout the
petrochemical and nuclear industries.\" for their members; to insure
their members receive the best possible training, and by creating a
worker-to-worker training program conceived, designed, and implemented
by the union\'s membership, to foster a \"culture of safety.\" They seek
continued funding for the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response Training Program in conjunction with the Labor Institute and
the Work Environment Program at University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

7\) [International Association of Firefighters]{.underline} \-\-\--This
application from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)
includes proposals for an EPA Hazardous Waste Worker Training Program
(HWWTP), a DOE HWWTP and a DOT HWWTP. The International Association of
Fire Fighters (IAFF) proposes to disseminate training and evaluation
materials, institute a train-the-trainer program where feasible and to
train fire fighters directly when no qualified instructors are
available. IAFF represents 85% of career fire service personnel in USA
and Canada. They have provided training materials and direct training in
hazardous materials emergency response since 1987. Their goals in this
program are to: 1) determine which communities need the training; 2)
train the trainers where possible (approximately 120 instructors will be
trained under this program), and 3) conduct direct training (300 first
responders 100 emergency medical technicians and paramedics, and 60
hazmat technicians each year).

8\) [University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey]{.underline}
\-\-- This application from the New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials
Worker Training Center includes proposals for an EPA Hazardous Waste
Worker Training Program (HWWTP), a DOE HWWTP, and an EPA Minority Worker
Training Program (MWTP). The New Jersey/New York Hazardous Materials
Worker Training Center has been funded by NIEHS since 1987. The Center
members include the University of Dentistry and Medicine of New Jersey,
Hunter College, New Jersey Department of Labor, New Jersey State Police,
New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, New York
Carpenters Labor Technical College, and the University of Buffalo. The
applicant proposes to train 13,500 workers in the first year who are
involved in hazardous waste site investigation or clean-up, emergency
response, and operations at RCRA/TSD facilities in New Jersey, New York,
and Puerto Rico.

**Appendix 3:**

**National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training for
Hazardous Materials, Waste Operation, and emergency Response**

The National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training for
Hazardous Materials, Waste Operations, and Emergency Response provides
the George Meany Center with a resource center of the latest information
on training workers who are exposed to hazardous materials, emergency
response and environmental cleanup. Additionally, two technical
workshops on campus each year bring national leaders in hazardous waste
training from labor, government, academia and industry to the Center.

A five year renewable contract for the Clearinghouse was awarded on May
1, 1995 to Ruth Ruttenberg & Associates, Inc., with the George Meany
Center for Labor Studies as a major subcontractor. The Director, an
Assistant Director, and three research associates are employed by Ruth
Ruttenberg & Associates, Inc. The other Assistant Director, Industrial
Hygiene support, and two full time Clearinghouse staff members are
employed by the Meany Center

The Clearinghouse is the information exchange and dissemination
mechanism for 18 worker training programs whose support of \$30 million
from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of
Energy (DOE) monies is intended to set a high standard for health and
safety training to protect workers in the burgeoning environmental
technology sector. Eleven of the prime awardees (including the Meany
Centers Railway Workers Hazardous Materials Project) and 12 of the
sub-awardees are AFL-CIO affiliates. Administration of the program by
one of the National Institutes of Health\--the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) \-\-- enhances the programss
stature and credibility. Close to 500,000 workers have received
hazardous materials training in the past eight years through the
NIEHS-funded programs (refresher training is also required on an annual
basis).

The Clearinghouse serves as a resource center housing numerous sets of
model curricula produced under the award and which training providers
use as reference in developing new courses or improving existing ones.
The Clearinghouse is the only authorized distributer of these curricula.
In addition to the curricula, the resource center also houses hundreds
of basic reference texts, key periodicals, books, regulatory
information, and other documents of relevance to occupational and
environmental health and safety. The resource center is open to
everyone.

A technical information specialist is available to answer questions and
is located in the office next to the resource center.

A March 1995 technical workshop, organized by the Clearinghouse, was the
first of two Innovative Technology workshops dealing with the
integration of health and safety into the design of new environmental
remediation technologies. At the end of that conference a working
guidance document was developed. In November 1995, a second workshop on
innovative technology will be held and participants will mark-up the
draft guidance document to produce final guidance on the integration of
safety and health into the design of technologies. A technical workshop
scheduled for March 1996 will be titled, Measuring and Evaluating the
Outcomes of Training. Workshops are held on the George Meany Center
campus and proceedings are expected to be published in refereed
journals. A monthly Newsbrief is written and produced by Clearinghouse
Staff, and is distributed to approximately 200 training program staff
members and interested parties. The Newsbrief provides information on
HAZMAT matters pertinent to awardees, including monthly columns on
hazardous waste news, government agencies, environmental justice, and
industrial hygiene. Also included monthly is an Awardee resource
exchange to promote the sharing of relevant resources. Upcoming events
are also noted, as well as summaries of events which have been attended
by either the Clearinghouse or awardees. In August 1995 the Newsbrief
became available electronically, via the Internet. Subscriptions to
those not associated with the NIEHS program are available at \$25 per
year.

The Clearinghouse is also responsible for outreach on the training
program and response to public inquiries from those seeking information
on health and safety training for hazardous waste operations and
emergency response. The Clearinghouse distributes thousands of brochures
on the program and individual training providers throughout the year at
trade shows and conferences. The 1995 exhibit schedule has included
attendance at one of five National Environmental Justice Advisory
Council meetings, the National Association of Environmental
Professionals Annual Conference, the Mid-Atlantic Industrial and
Hazardous Waste Conference, and the Ground Breaking of the Hazardous
Materials Management and Emergency Response Training Facility in
Hanford, Washington. Still to be attended are the DOEs Training
Resources and Stat Exchange Annual Conference and the meeting of the
Society for Occupational and Environmental Health.

Another component to the Clearinghouse is its ongoing research
program\--focussing this year on measuring the outcomes of training, on
profiling the labor market for hazardous waste workers and emergency
responders, and on environmental justice and the new NIEHS Minority
Worker Training Program.

The Clearinghouse is now on-line via CompuServe, which widens its
capabilities to disseminate information, to receive inquiries, to access
the latest information. While awardees are on campus for the next
technical workshop, special sessions will be scheduled, at their
request, to aid them in the use of the CD-ROM capacity now available in
the meany Center library, as well as in the use of the Internet.

+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| **Final Two Year    |           |           |            |        |
| Summary:**          |           |           |            |        |
|                     |           |           |            |        |
| **DOE-NIEHS Worker  |           |           |            |        |
| Health and Safety   |           |           |            |        |
| Training Program**  |           |           |            |        |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| Training Parameters | 1994      | 1995      | Total      | \%     |
|                     |           |           |            |        |
|                     |           |           |            | Change |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| No. Of Awardees     | 7         | 7         |            |        |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| Courses Presented   | 533       | 1,086     | 1,619      | +100%  |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| Workers Trained     | 7,468     | 13,586    | 21,054     | +72%   |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| Contact Hours       | 185,759   | 248,864   | 434,623    | +37%   |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| Dollars Awarded     | \$        | \$        | \$         | ‑4%    |
|                     | 9,898,826 | 9,591,026 | 19,489,852 |        |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+
| Cost Per Contact    | \$53.28   | \$38.54   | \$44.84    | ‑30%   |
| Hour                |           |           |            |        |
+---------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------+

Data on training accomplishments and expenditures are final for FY 1995.

+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| DOE/                    | FY 95               |                     |
|                         |                     |                     |
| NIEHS                   | Training by site    |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| Courses                 | Workers             | Hours               |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| Ashtabula               |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 1                       | 10                  | 80                  |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
|                         |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| Alaska                  |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 1                       | 8                   | 80                  |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
|                         |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| Weldon Springs          |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 3                       | 3                   | 152                 |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
|                         |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| West Valley             |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 72                      | 861                 | 12,680              |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
|                         |                     |                     |
+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+

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  UMTRA                                             

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  3                          43                     376

                                                    
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  Sandia Lab                                        

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  1                          5                      184

                                                    
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  Savannah R                                        

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  71                         416                    16,461

                                                    
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  Rocky Flats                                       

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  42                         368                    16,096

                                                    
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  Princeton Pl                                      

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  -------------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------
  19                         87                     1,549

                                                    
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  Portsmouth                                        

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  -------------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------
  6                          94                     2,704

                                                    

  Pantex Plant                                      

  31                         409                    3,656

                                                    

  Paducah                                           

  27                         261                    5,968

                                                    

  Oak Ridge                                         

  317                        4,853                  73,628

                                                    

  NevadaTst                                         

  50                         458                    17,808

                                                    

  Mound Plt                                         

  16                         204                    3,264

                                                    

  L Alamos                                          

  28                         288                    7,928

                                                    

  Livermore                                         

  22                         213                    4,000

                                                    

  Berkeley                                          

  5                          78                     2,320

                                                    

  Kansas Cty                                        

  7                          151                    1,576

                                                    

  Idaho Ntl                                         

  29                         308                    4,128

                                                    

  Hanford                                           

  177                        2,913                  44,800

                                                    

  FUSRAP                                            

  27                         142                    2,144

                                                    

  Fernald                                           

  34                         532                    9,648

                                                    

  DOE-HQ                                            

  23                         98                     2,086

                                                    

  Brookhavn                                         

  14                         227                    2,744

                                                    

  Argonne-E                                         

  3                          11                     400

                                                    

  Non-DOE                                           

  31                         193                    6,360
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| DOE/NIEHS FY 95 Training Summary                                      |
|                                                                       |
| by Target Population                                                  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

  ----------------------------------- ----------- ------------ -----------
  Target Population                   Courses     Workers      Hours

  CERCLA Cleanup                      460         5,757        118,416

  RCRA TSD                            145         2,483        26,640

  Emerg Resp                          22          239          6,040

  Radiation Prot.                     98          748          19,861

  Misc. Training                      116         1,030        27,515

  Total                               1,086       13,494       248,128
  ----------------------------------- ----------- ------------ -----------

Dont add up

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| DOE/NIEHS FY 1995 Training Contact Hours                              |
|                                                                       |
| by DOE Cleanup Site                                                   |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

  ------------------------- ---------------------- -----------------------
  Name of DOE Site          Total Contact Hours    Percent of Total Hours

  1\) Oak Ridge             73,628                 31%

  2\) Hanford               44,800                 18%

  3\) Nevada Test Site      17,808                 7%

  4\) Savannah River        16,461                 6.8%

  5\) Rocky Flats           16,096                 6.6%

  6\) West Valley           12,680                 5.2%

  7\) Fernald               9,648                  4.0%

  8\) Los Alamos            7,928                  3.2%

  9\) Paducah Plant         5,968                  2.4%

  10\) Idaho National Lab   4,128                  1.7%

  11\) Livermore            4,000                  1.6%

  12\) Pantex Plant         3,656                  1.5%

  Other DOE sites           29,977                 12%

                                                   

  FY 95 Total Hours         248,864                100%

                                                   
  ------------------------- ---------------------- -----------------------

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DOE FY 95 Total Training                                              |
|                                                                       |
| By NIEHS Awardee                                                      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

  -------------------------------- --------- ------------------ ------------
  Awardee                          \#        \# Workers         \# Contact
                                   Courses                      Hours

  California/Arizona Consortium    11        165                2,544

  New Jersey/New York Consortium   110       1210               16,577

  Intl Union of Operating          171       2728               42,688
  Engineers                                                     

  Oil Chemical & Atomic Workers    141       2,682              28,360

  International Chemical Workers   132       1,949              23,672
  Union                                                         

  Laborers/Associated General      362       2,466              90,835
  Contractors                                                   

  Intl. Brotherhood of Teamsters   74        881                19,736

  United Brotherhood of Carpenters 84        1,505              24,452

                                                                

  Total                            1,085     13,586             248,864
  -------------------------------- --------- ------------------ ------------