Department of Energy Support to the 

Energy Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) 

Office of Health, Safety and Security 

August 2012 
National Day of 

Remembrance 

• On July 16, 2012, the United States Senate annou

passage of S. Res. 519, a Senate resolution desigOctober 30, 2010, as a National Day of Remembr(NDR) for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers. 

• This year will mark the fourth anniversary of the N

honoring the thousands of men and women who tserved our country by building and maintaining ouweapons complex during World War II through the War. 
DOE’s Core Mandate 

Work on behalf of the program claimantensure that all available worker and facrecords and data are provided to DOL, and the Advisory Board. 
DOE Responsibilities 

1.Respond to DOL and NIOSH requests for info

related to individual claims. (employment verexposure records). 

2.Provide support and assistance to DOL, NIOS

Advisory Board on large-scale research and scharacterization projects through records reseand retrieval efforts at various DOE sites. 

3.Conduct research, in coordination with DOL a

NIOSH, on issues related to covered facilities designations. 
EEOICPA 

Site Contacts 

• DOE EEOICPA Site POCs: 

– Coordinate all research activities with NIOSH, Advisor

DOL and various contractors 

– Set up site visits and tours for NIOSH and DOL staff a

other groups 

– Work with both DOL and NIOSH to identify site subjec

experts and to facilitate interviews with current and forworkers 

– Manage site’s response to individual records requests

DOE responses are complete and timely 

– Onsite source of EEOICPA information to workers 
Individual 

Records 

Fund and coordinate records retrieval activities asites in support of individual claims. 

 Employment verifications for DOL (~6,000/ye Dose records for NIOSH (~4,500/year)  Document Acquisition Requests (DAR) emplo

work history/exposures for DOL 

(~5,500/year) 
Individual 

Records 

Total number of EEOICPA records requests comp

– FY 2011: ~16,000 – FY 2012: Anticipate approximately 16,000 
Individual 

Records 

• Claimants often worked at multiple DOE sites, 

multiple contractors and subcontractors, and idifferent jobs or divisions over a career. 

• Records packages that DOE provides to DOL 

NIOSH can be hundreds of pages long. 
Individual 

Records 

• For a typical request for a worker’s records, D

have to go to many different site departments within those departments many different recorsources or databases. 

• For example, one DOE site routinely checks 

approximately 40 different sources for responsrecords, including hard copy paper records, mmicrofiche, databases and scanned electronic 
Large Scale 

Research Projects 

• Large scale research projects are driven by the 

DOL and NIOSH. 

– DOE must react and accommodate the requests within 

funding. 

• These projects can take years and can cost hun

thousands of dollars to support. 
Large Scale 

Research Projects

• DOE must review many of the requested record

classification concerns. 

– Millions of pages have been reviewed so far and this c

time consuming and costly process. 

• DOE is often supporting 4-5 projects at once, alt

various stages of the process (start up, researchup, etc.) 
Large Scale 

Research Projects 

• Rocky Flats • Sandia 

• Los Alamos • Savannah River • Clarksville 

• Pantex 

• Medina 

• Hanford 
Document 

Reviews 

• DOE committed to providing documents t

NIOSH, DOL, and the Advisory Board, budo so in a responsible manner. 

• The DOE EEOICPA Security Plan link: http://www.hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/FWSP/Advocacy/HSS_Se

_EEOICPA.pdf 
Document 

Reviews (cont.) 

• NIOSH, the Advisory Board and their con

have submitted 50 documents for DOE classification review since June 2012. 

• The average turn around time for review 

released documents was 8 work days. 

• In certain cases where an expedited revie

necessary, DOE has returned documents to two days. 
Facility Research 

Research and maintain the Covered Facilities Data• Database of over 300 facilities covered under 

EEOICPA. This includes DOE facilities, AWEs aBeryllium Vendors whose employees are eligible benefits under EEOICP. 

• Full listing on the DOE HSS website: 

– http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/FWSP/Advocacy/faclist/find
DOE Initiatives

• Ongoing effort to identify additional recor

collections useful for EEOICPA. 

– Collections are evaluated, indexed and cross 

referenced against previous claims. 

• Sandia National Lab and Nevada Nationa

Security Site (former Nevada Test Site) collaborating on a legacy records collectipotentially useful for EEOICPA requests. 
Secure Electronic Records 

Transfer (SERT) System 

• The SERT is an HSS-hosted environment wher

and NIOSH can send and receive records and dsecure manner. 

• To effectively securing large volumes of PII infor

the system will reduce the time to complete EEOclaims and improve transparency between Agen

• Currently, all DOL, NIOSH and DOE users have 

trained and we are taking the final steps to go liv
Outreach 

• DOE Headquarters (HSS) 

– Has initiated a Joint outreach Task Group that include

DOL and NIOSH, along with the DOL Ombudsman anFormer Worker Medical Screening Programs. 

– The goal of creating a workgroup is to coordinate and 

outreach efforts between the agencies. 

– The Group held 18 "Town Hall" meetings in and near 

communities of 9 DOE sites. 

– http://www.hss.doe.gov/healthsafety/FWSP/Formerwo

vents_calendars.html 
Informational Video 

• Preparing an informational video on the benefits 

services available to DOE workers and their fammembers through the Former Worker Medical SProgram (FWP) and the EEOICPA Program. 

• The video is intended as an additional outreach 

promote the FWP and EEOICPA; it will not replaTown Hall meetings that the JOTG holds in the communities near and around the DOE sites. 
Former Worker Medical 

Screening Program 

• Mission: To identify and notify former workers a

occupational disease and offer them medical scthat can lead to treatment 

• Program now serves all former workers from all 

sites in locations close to their residences 

• Further information on the FWP can be found at

http://www.hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/FWSP/orkermed/ 
Former Worker Medical 

Screening Program 

Local Screening Programs for Rocky Flats: • Production Workers 

– Principal Investigator: Donna Cragle, PhD

– Co-Principal Investigators: John McIne

MD, and Lee Newman, MD 

– Local Outreach:1-866-812-6703 

• Construction Workers 

– Principal Investigator: Knut Ringen, DrPH, 

MPH 

– Local Outreach:1-800-866-9663 
Questions?