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To Whom It May Concern:

‘The purpose of this letter is to convey facts relevant to the radiation exposure dosimeter program
formerly in place at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility/

From. . until sometime in the latter part of that same year, I was assigned to
janitorial duties in Building 123. During said time, my duties included the cleaning of the room
where radiation dose rates of workers were assessed and recorded. During this period of time, the
style of dosimeter badges resembled a “tray” with small compartments used to hold components
of each workers badge in place. These trays were disassembled and reassembled on a regular
basis and contained a small lithium chip that measured approximately 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch
square. These chips were removed from the badges by dosimeter personnel for assessment in an
instrument. Because the chips were so small, it required workers to use tweezers to remove the
chips. This action often resulted in damage or complete loss of the chip because it would
dislodge itself from the end of the tweezers and land in the room. Chips were also lost during the
disassembly of badges as components would dislodge themselves and fall to the floor duting this
process as well. Most of the workers could not find these chips after they had fallen, so the actual
dose rate associated with the badge being counted was completely lost. Each day, when I would
sweep the floor in this room, the workers would sift through the dirt and remove these crystals.
They would usually find between 6 and 12 crystals per day. If these crystals were still in good
shape, they would be discharged and reused. These crystals were never evaluated for the dose
they had been exposed to because they had no way of knowing which crystal belonged to which
radiation worker. There were also several instances where as a crystal was being read, the
foreman of the group would advise the dosimeter worker that the dose shown was too high to
possibly be correct, and the worker was advised to change or delete the reading Often times, for
unknown reasons, chips were soaked in alcohol prior to being read.

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4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-45 <¢
Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998 ones
Dear Sir or Madam,

The Dose Reconstruction process for NIOSH tracking Number

is in process according to you.

In doing so, I believe everyone who got cancer and worked at Rock Flats and in the
Plutonium buildings should be recognized that the cancer was Rocky Flats bom. Iam
sending you some of my exposures of plutonium that can’t be detected by your
reconstruction of dose. Many times you just went and washed off the contamination in
the building and it was not reported. Booties were thrown away that were over 20,000
count per minute in 771 building and I threw a lot of them away. That was the most
contaminated building in the USA. :

All of the accidents and exposures I am sending to you are documented and you can find
them in reports, The contamination listed was after the contamination was washed off in
that particular building. The contamination that couldn’t be scrubbed off in that building
you were sent to medical to complete the decontamination. At medical they used Clorox
to scrub the remainder of contamination. Notice, on one occasion 100,000 counts per
minute was around my face hands and neck and a nose smear was taken where 60 to 90
d/m was found. Before that I had another nose smear that was around 250 d/m. That
meant you breathed some plutonium.

Next question: If you were exposed to the same amount of plutonium would you be
positive that your cancer didn’t come from Rocky Flats? There is no definite amount of
plutonium ingested that determines how cancer is produced. Every body is different like
the beryllium testing proved.

Now my cancer hasn’t reappeared but you leam to live with some of the side effects you
will have forever. You have constant diarrhea because 2 feet of colon and 2 feet of ' *
intestines have been removed. And this limits your activities plus other side effects."

While I was working in 771 building the following foremen died of Cancer:

n fact I was taking
chemotherapy at Dr. Schafes’s office in the Denver area and met _ 90.
was also taking chemotherapy. jied a short time later. Just lately, I met

. sho worked at Rocky Flats who was also was in Dr. Schafer’s office with
cancer.

Wearing a respiration for a couple of hours at a time during contamination clean up, or
other contaminated work you could dump water out of it. The seal on the respirator
could be broken if you bumped it. You couldn’t take off your respirator during these
times and you swallowed what you coughed up therefore it went into your colon.



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EMPLOYEE INFORMATION

1. Name 5. Home Phone

2. Employee Number 6. Occupatio:,

3. Age Sex_M 7. Length of Present Employment
4. Home Address _* oe { ] Under3 months  ~

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{ ] 3-42 months [y Over 12 months

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Accident Type ” £ ] Injuryainess [ ] Vehicte

[ ) Property Damage fy OthergEPORTING
2. Departmen’
3. Date of Ocourence INDE TERMINED Time ( Miltary) Shift
4, Accident Occurred {¥ indoors [_ } Outdoors
5. On Employer's Premises [9 Yes 1} No

6. Specific Location

INCIDENT DESCRIPTION

IF ADDITIONAL SPACE IS NEEDED, PLEASE USE A SEPARATE SHEET AND REFER TO THE
APPLICABLE SUBJECT MATTER.

1, Witnesses to Incident - Provide Name, Supervisor, and Extension

2, What was employee doing when injured? Be specific; using tools or equipment, name them and tell how they
were being used.
Employee States: EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN > AND SINCE TREY

HAVE FOUND CONTAMINATION IN THAT AREA. I WANTED TO GET THIS ON
RECORD THAT I WORKED IN THAT BUILDING DURING THAT TIME.

Distibution: White-Industial Safety
Blue-Work Comp-Benefits
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| 303-278-4557 PAX 303 278-1320 ROCKY FLATS OFFICE 303-966-2798 — 966-7042

FAX 303-966-4317

February 15, 2005

U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services &
Office of Compensation Analysis and Support
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
4676 Columbia Parkway, MS-C-47

Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dear Secretary of Health and Human Services and Office of Compensation Analysis and
Support,

The United Steelworkers of America (USWA), Locai 8031, in good faith submit the
accompanying Special Exposure Cohort Petition, Form B, and relevant supporting
documentation and attachmenis in full accordance with 42 CFR Part 83, Procedures for
Designating Classes of Employees as Members of the Special Exposure Cohort under
Energy Employees Occupational lllness Compensation Program Act of 2000, Final Rule.
This petition is submitted on behaif of the dedicated members of USWA, Local 8031, through
our right of representation.

Our petition defines a special class of Rocky Flats workers for whom it is not feasible to
accurately estimate the radiation dosé they réceived and who have had their health
endangered by their exposure to radiation while employed at the U.S. Department of
Energy's Rocky Flats site. This Rocky Flats class of workers meets all specifications and
requirements for inclusion in the Special Exposure Cohort.

Several factors make an accurate estimation of dose for the Rocky Flats class of workers
impossible. Factors, include, but are not limited to, exposure to a unique form of plutonium
referred to as high fired oxides or super class Y materials which due to small particle size,
insolubility, self-shielding properties, and differences in the way the particles are metabolized
by the body make it impossible to accurately assess dose.

in addition, fack of lung counting in the site’s early days, failures to measure neutron dose
initially and subsequent failures in reading neufron dose films, lack of workplace monitoring
and inconsistent procedures for monitoring and dose assessment have also created a
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Anthony W. DeMaiori, President

United Steelworkers of America, Local 8031
4510 Indiana Street

Golden, CO 80403

February 15, 2005

SEC Petition

Office of Compensation Analysis and Support
NIOSH

4676 Columbia Parkway, MS-C-47

Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dear NIOSH Office of Compensation Analysis and Support,

Enclosed please find our original and official Special Exposure Cohort Petition, Form B, and
all relevant supporting documentation. This represents our official submittal under law and
through the NIOSH Office of Compensation Analysis and Support as required.

Please call to confirm receipt of this document at 303-278-4557. If you have any questions or
require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at the above number.

Resp

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Anthony W. DeMaiori
President



Table of Contents
Basis for Petition Description of Factors on which Petition is Based iiv
SEC Petition, Form B Completed and Signed Official HHS Form 17
Continuation Pages/Attachments
Tab D.6 NLRB and Contract Documentation of Representation Un-numbered
Tab E2 Locations Relevant to Petition 8-11

E.2 ATTACHMENT: Building 776/777 Contamination Map —_ Un-numbered
E2 ATTACHMENT: Building 776/777 1969 Fire Cleanup Un-numbered

Tab E3 Job Titles and Job Duties 12
E.3 ATTACHMENT: Hazards Associated with Job Descriptions Un-numbered
Tab ES Unmonitored, Unrecorded (or Inadequately) Exposures 13-21
Tab F.1 Radiation Exposures Not Measured 22-23
Tab F.2 Records Lost 24
F.2 ATTACHMENT: Employee Testimony Letters (2) Un-numbered
Tab F3 Expert Documentation on Reconstruction Limitations 25

F.3 ATTACHMENT: Dr, Bob Bistline July 1,2002, Testimony Un-numbered
F.3 ATTACHMENT: Roger B. Falk on Neutron Dosimetry Un-numbered

Tab F.4- Technical Reports from Government Entities/Journals 26
F.4 ATTACHMENT: March 15, 2001, B771 Investigation Un-numbered
F.4 ATTACHMENT: Dec. J, 1993, DNFSB Report Un-numbered
F.4 ATTACHMENT: Feb. 8, 1994, DNFSB Letter Un-numbered
F.4 ATTACHMENT: April 14, 1998, OEE Consent Order Un-numbered
F.4 ATTACHMENT: July 17, 2001, Price Anderson Un-numbered
F.4 ATTACHMENT: May 2000, Hanford Health Network Un-numbered
~ F.4 ATTACHMENT: July 26, 1994, Sullivan Letter Un-numbered
Worker Testimony Letters Representative Letters and Testimony 27-28
ATTACHMENT: Employee Letter 1 Un-numbered
ATTACHMENT: Employee Letter 2 Un-numbered
Un-numbered
ATTACHMENT: Employee Letter 4 Un-numbered
ATTACHMENT: Employee Letter 5 Un-numbered
ATTACHMENT: Employee Letter 6 Un-numbered
ATTACHMENT: Employee Letter 7 Un-numbered
ATTACHMENT: Employee Letter 8 Un-numbered
Sources of Information List of References 29
List of Acronyms/Abbreviations 30

A special thanks to Steve Trujillo and Judy Yeater
Jor their hard work in the preparation of this petition.

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Appendix - Continuation Page
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AMAD - Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
CEDE ~ Cumulative Effective Dose Equivalent
DAC - Derived Air Concentration
D&D - Deactivation and Decommissioning
DNESB - Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board
DOE - Department of Energy
EEOICPA - Energy Employees Occupational Illnesses Compensation Program Act
Ge - Geranium
ICRP ~ International Commission on Radiological Protection
NIOSH - National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
NDT - Nondestructive Testing
NTA - Nuclear Track Emulsion Type A films
Pu — Plutonium
PUSPS - Plutonium Stabilization and Packaging System
RadCon - Radiation Control Manual
RFETS - Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
RV - Reaction vessel
SAAM - Selective Alpha Air Monitor
SEC ~ Special Exposure Cohort
SS&C ~ Sand, slag and crucible
TLD - Thermoluminescent dosimeter
1D - Technical Basis Document
USWA ~ United Steelworkers of America

The USWA, Local 8031 reserves the right to provide additional information beyond that which is included in this petition
and in support of our ability to obtain Special Exposure Cohort designation for the Rocky Flats class of workers.
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vutess POSITIVE BODY COUNT

(wou body counts on and. indicated a
count for americiun in the 1 lungs. ‘The amount of americium,
based on these counts, is 0.13 to 0.15 nanocuri ss (nui).
This value is 1% -f the maximum femiussible lh Burden,
of americium of 14.7 nei.

We use the measurement of americium as a tracer for plutonium.
When the fraction of the americium in the plutoniun wixtire

is net known, which is the situation in your case, we calculate
an upper Iamit value for plutonium based on an assumption of

a fraction of the emericium equal to 1000 parts per inillvon at
the time of the First positive body count. When this cal~
culation is done for vour counts, the estimated amount of
plutonium is 1.5 to 1.6 nCi, or 10% of the maxima permissibie
Jung burden (16nCi of plutonium). .

X you will be placed on a quarterly recount schedule su we can
“update this evaluation guartecly, If you have any questions or
would like to see your health physics records, please do
not hesitate to contact me (x4212) or Clayton Lagerquist
(*2452) .

Ren Q. File

Roger B. Falk
Internal Dosimetry Program Administrator
Health Physics

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SUBJECT: LIFETIME Di IMITATION AND NEUTRON DOSE RECONSTRUCTION -
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It was recently determined that neutron doses may have been under-reported or possibly
Over-reported for certain individuals who were hired prior to * Process workers who
were exposed to neutrons may not have been monitored for neutrons from until about

“In addition, the neutran fitm used to monitor employees in the late 1950’s and early
1960’s may not have been read properly, thereby either missing some neutron exposure or
reporting more neutron exposure than was actually received, The issue appears to be limited
to neutron exposures prior to >

As a result of these uncertainties, Radiological Health will need to perform dose
reconstructions for process workers potentially exposed to neutrons prior to At this
time, the effort will be concentrated on those individuals who worked on the chemical process
lines in Building prior to - since the processes in that bullding resulted in the
highest neutron doses.

You were identified as a candidate for a dose reconstruction because you were hired prior to

, and you are believed to have worked in Building. As the first step in the dose
reconstruction procéss, Radiological Health requires additional information regarding the
type of work you performed prior to Attachment 1 is a work history questionnaire.
Please fill out the questionnaire in as much detail as possible, and mail it or deliver it to
Radiological Health in Building 123.

Attachment 2 is a brief synopsis of this neutron issue, how it was discovered, and the actions
Radiation Protection is taking so that your radiation exposure records reflect your exposure
to neutrons as accurately as possible.

In addition to the dose reconstructions necessary to correct your exposure records, Radiation
Protection has implemented a Lifetime Control Level, as specified in the Department of
Energy Radiological Control Manual, Article 212. The Lifetime Controt Level is N rem,
where N is your age in years. For example, if you are 50 yeass old, your Lifetime Controt
Level would be 50 rem. When you become 51 years old, your Lifetime Contro! Level becomes
51 rem. If your dose is greater than your Lifetime Control Level, you will have an

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TO: United Steel Workers of Amenca, Local 8031
FROM:
SUBJECT: Special Cohort Stams

I was hired on” ‘esa ~ Thad mmerous “No Current Data

Available” badge reports from my older style” (with the badge attached } while working in the production side
of the building ,as well as NDA. I worked m: 3 from
to about? end then was assigned to_ when I transferred to the Solar

Pond Clean out m the Chemucal Operator Treatment group. As a worker in 4 I worked in the ‘

and most of my work was for production staging of Pu oxides, salts, Am, etc. for all the production
lines in the tmilding, I also transferred material to molten salts in movement of material to security vaults
ik and. s. and packaged matenal for shipment around plant site in the 10 gallon drums. This job hada
very high rad dose for my TLD and came back often as No Current Data Available on my report. When this
happened management moved me for a week or two to a lower zad area (ie. then back out to the
staging job. Before I transferred out of the job to a lower rad job, Management required me to wear double lead
aprons and 60 or even 90 mul lead gloves to stage and transport material to the areas. My TLD’s, at times, still came
back as No Current Data Available.

I started work at the and involved running equipment to fill tri-wall boxes with
cement and sludge from the solar ponds. The ponds had a variety of chemicals and low level radioactive waste that
bad accumulated in them since the Our PPE consisted of the white cotton coveralls and leather or rubber

gloves, Half mask respirators were not required to be worn but were available if the worker chose to wear them.
‘The process created dust as the Pond Crete dried and had “normal” dust associated from being outside. Workers
toutinely washed small spulls of Pond Crete and sludge out of the building and process area back into ond 207A.
received a lung burden while at the ponds and after investigation, management said I received it ix___ I
have alweys thought it strange why my lung count was clean from roduction days and then suddenly hada
Jung burden in e low level area and why it took so long to show up if indeed I did get an inhalation in’
‘Years later chronic beryllium disease has been associated with workers at the ponds and in later years of production
at the Solar Ponds, much more administrative and engineered contamination control were used than when I worked
there until . inn
bb ‘moved to? to help with the liquid waste shipments from alll the production buildings on
plant site. Each day involved pumping liquids from various buildings to 374 building processes. Most of my TLD
reports had actual readings associated with them and were with the newer type TLD.

Ip Tmoved to waste water plant and have been here since. No TLD’s bave been required
since I have been here. I still tiink that tests should be done on our dried sludge for rad, beryllium, asbestos etc, in
that most of the production buildings did have restrooms in the production areas.

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Working at Rocky Flats fo; ears and working in and uilding where they
processed plutonium you could expect to get some internal contamination. I worked in
building and the foreman _ . . . .
all got cancer and died. I met _ at Dr. Schafer’s office while he
and I were taking chemotherapy for cancer and I know it was from working at Rocky
Flats.

Ifyou don’t believe that, go to any Nuclear Weapons plant and walk around while the
alarms go off and not know what amount of radiation you absorbed either internally or
externally. If the alarms went off, you could be exposed if the contamination went from
you to the alarm. We were guinea pigs. Working with a respirator on for hours you
could dump the liquid out of the respirator. Does it seal as good? Who knows? You
could bump your respirator while cleaning pipes overhead for an hour and breathe some
plutonium.

Tam also giving you some of the records of my contamination. These are the
contaminations that needed to be decontaminated at medical. Many other times
contamination was washed off in the building and you weren’t sent to medical. A lot of
people exposed to plutonium got cancer.

We were also exposed to Carbon Tetrachloride, Perchlorethylene, Trichlorethylene, and
many other chemicals and metals.

Next, take a look at what my cancer looks like. I also had out of , that
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based on these counts, is 0.13 to 0.15 nanocuries (ni).
This value is 13 of the maximm fermissible lung bun.
of americium of 14.7 nci.

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is not known, which is the situation in your case, we calou.
an upper limit value for plutonium based on an assumption oF
a frection Of the americil equal to 1000 parts ver inilivon at
the time of the First Positive body count. When this cal-
culation is done for your counts, the estimated arout of
Plutonium is 1.5 te 116 nci, or 10% of the maxirur permissible
jung burden (16nCi of plutonium). .

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update this evaluation quarterly. I£ you have any questions or
would like to see your health Physics records, pleasi do
not hesitate to contact me (x4212) or Clayton Lagerquist
(x2452).

Reon 8. Tulle

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Internal Dosimetry Program Administrator
Health Physics

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July 30, 2003

United Steelworkers of America, Local 8031
P.O. Box 745370

Arvada, CO 80006-5370

ATIN: Anthony W. DeMaiori

RE: Energy Employees Occupational Itiness Compensation Program Act of 2000
Dear Tony:

In response to your letter dated July 22, 2003, I am retired ftom Rocky Flats after years and
have been diagnosed with cancer of the larynx (Esophagus).

Most of the time at Rocky Flats. _ = iworkedin Asan Tech, I spent a large
Portion of my time x-raying pits and other nuclear materials in and suildings and
shelf studies of pitsin _ building. When working with high-radiation producing items we
Were required to wear lead aprons and gloves. From approximately while x-raying

the product we were required to wear our dosimetry badges under the Jead aprons and gloves.
My cancer is in an area left unprotected by the aprons.

Also. md _ juildings had a very high incidence of radon gis. We techs would frequently
Jose our protective clothing when leaving our work area. The Health Physics monitors would
attribute it to radon gas. At this time, it ‘was not easy to tell the difference between Pu
contamination and radon gas. Ip some radon readings were taken in yjnilding
fier some possible contamination problems) and it was found to have very high levels of radon.

Ifyou need any more information or have more information for me, please contact me,

Very trly yours,



year. Inow have heart failure and attribute this from the stress involved in the Cancer I
had,

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August 18, 2003

United Steelworkers of America
AFL CIO CLC

Local Union 8031

P.O. Box 745370

Arvada, Colorado 80006-5370

Dear Steelworkers;

IN response to your letter of July 22, 2003 I can @ffer the
following information:

I have never heard of cancer being caused from Radiologeal
exposure. The Doctor that treated me at National Jewish
Hospital never discussed these diseases with me,

In . I was in an explosion that shattered the enclosure
from the mixing tube which contained Plutoniun Nitrate and

50% Hydrogen Peroxide, The explosion was caused by the re-
frigeration equipment not controlling the heat from the
mixture,

I spent a week at the First Aid Station at Rocky Flats because
my body was so contaminated. When I went home I carried sheets
and pillow cases with me and returned them the next day. At
this time all feces and urine were colleéted and tested.

John Mann an engineer at the first aid station worked
around the clock to design a body counter, this being the
first in the United States. I don't know what the readings
were on the cantamination of my body at this time.

In May of this year (2003) I had my latest body count and
still show 12 body burdens in the chest area, consequently

I take Colchicine twice’ daily and will need it the rest of
my life. This is in replacement of the Prednisone I had
taken previously until Dr. Newman of National Jewish Hospital
said I shouldnt take any more of it,

The protective gear I wore at that time was white coveralls
and safety glasses. The explosion was so great it blew the
safety glasses off my face. I don't know what happened to
the fii badge.

The operation I was doing with Plttoniun Nitrate and Perox~
ide was to precipitate the Plutonium from the liquid. This
was in a dry box and never required any other protective
equipment.

Youts. Trulv.



July 26, 1994
MTS-193-94
Page 2

administrative contol level of 100 mrem fotal effective dose equivalent {internal plus
external) additional exposure per year, unt! your lifetime dose fails below your Lifetime
Contro! Level. If your lifetime dose is below your Lifetime Controt Level, you will be aliowed
to receive up to the EG&G Rocky Flats, Inc., Administrative Control Level (also called
Administrative Dose Guideline), currently set at 750 mrem per year,

Your lifetime dose through the end of the Second Quarter 1s calculated to be

tem. This dose includes al} of the Penetrating dose received at Rocky Flats plus the internal

dose based on lung counts and urinalysis data. The additional “missing” neutron dose Is.

estimated to be 15.868 rem. Your total lifetime dose, including the estimated neutron dose is
rem. Your lifetime dose exceeds your Lifetime Control Levet o: rem, therefore,

you are limited to mrem per year additional exposure.

if you have further questions, please contact M. R. Prochownik for assistance. Mike can be
reached at Extension 5853.

SCB:emk

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* Anemployee describes his experiences with both the Building and ves, He
also presents a list of people that he has worked with that has either died of cancer or has
had cancer.

* Asurviving spouse describes her husbands work activities and iob titles. He left Rocky
Flats ir , and died of colon cancer or_._ . She has records of
unreported and unrecorded incidents her deceased husband was involved in.

The USWA, Loca! 8034 reserves the right to provide additional information beyond that which is included in this petition
and in support of our ability to obtain Special Exposure Cohort designation for the Rocky Flats class of workers.
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Anthony W. DeMaiori, President
United Steelworkers of America, Local 8031

4510 Indiana Street
Golden, CO 80403
February 15, 2005
SEC Petition
Office of Compensation Analysis and Support
NIOSH
4676 Columbia Parkway, MS-C-47

Cincinnati, OH 45226
Dear NIOSH Office of Compensation Analysis and Support,

Enclosed please find our original and official Special Exposure Cohort Petition, Form B, and.
all relevant supporting documentation. This represents our official submittal under law and
through the NIOSH Office of Compensation Analysis and Support as required.

Please call to confirm receipt of this document at 303-278-4557. If you have any questions or
require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at the above number.

Resp ly,

Anthony W. DeMaiori
President



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Judy Yeater

RE: Paragraph explaining exposure incident

From ~ ° ite_.. 1 worked in the On.
A was informed that ad radioactive contamination throughout the trailer at
which time I filed a report with my supervisor. On’ . Lhad a request to

submit a fecal sample ( one year after incident) and dosimetry sent my sample off site to a
subcontractor and the results dosimetry received back were refused.



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I worked at Rocky Flats from until .
Most of my time was spent in building - and At no time
did we wear protective equipment other than white coveralls in
building

T worked as a “in the storage area where uranium
Parts were stored. It was a high radiation area. The whole
building was sonsidered "high radiation". we never wore a half

mask when storing or handliing parts, or at any time.

We used to eat and @rink in our work area.

Building where I worked for Several years, was also a high
radiation area. Again, the only protective equipment we wore
were white coveralis.

There were stacks of uranium ingots. our work area was where
the ingots were received and stored.

We took precautions to not contaminate the trailers as we
loaded, but no precautions were taken to protect ourselves,
such as a half mask or in some cases a full face mask, were never
worn to protect against the oxidation dust and whatever else
was floating around, Incidentally, my TLD readings were alwys
the same (within the acceptable limits). I have copies if
needed. .

AS a result of my years in these two buildings, 1 year after I
retired Iwas diagnosed with cancer in the which

went into the . in my neck.

I hope this will help. All the information on my cancer is
in my medical records. If more information is needed I wiii
be glad to furnish what 1 caM,



United Steelworkers of America
Local 8031 ot
r PO Box 745370 ; :
Arvada,COQ 80006-5370 August 10, 2003

RE: Energy Employees Occupational Iiness Compensation Act of 2000
Special Exposure Cohort

The dose reconstruction study at Rocky Flats will not provide all the exposure due to
problems of not collecting all the data. While in Building 71 Thad my anti-
contamination clothing removed due to contamination, Contamination that was washed
off your body was not always reported and didn’t show up on all radiation monitors.

Respirators were worn when working in contamination areas. Clothing was removed as
you left the room or if an alarm went off. Health Protection people would then monitor
you, This was not recorded and wouldn’t show up on a TLD.

For Building 771 the TLDs were not wom all day, but posted on the wall until you were
going to enter the inner facility. There was radiation found coming through the walls of
several of the office spaces a few times that was not captured for dose.

Thave a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor. Glioblastoma multiforme is a high-grade
(Grade IV) tumor that is very aggressive; in fact, it is the most fatal form of brain tumor

@ that exists, The average life expectancy with glioblastoma multiforme is approximately
54 to 65 weeks °

Sincerely,

NOLLWHOdHOO Nasanto Nosauon) a =



contaminated so many times that it was moved from this area. This is where the monitors
undressed the workers using a half-mask respirator.

Most of job the monitors got was dangerous and that was our job to protect all who
worked in the process areas. We had all kinds of : alamns, fire alarms, gamma alarms,
neutron alarms, dry box alarms, alarms detecting plutonium in the air called Sams, All
the alarms went off at some time or other. In fact, one time a garama alarm went off and
a man fell down in trying to escape to the outside of the building and was walked over by
others trying to escape. If 2 Sam alarm went off it was after the fact, and you could be
exposed to radiation like the Sam was. Doctor Dr. Dennis Clifford said all the workers
he saw as patients from Rocky Flats had high blood pressure,

Thaven’t smoked or chewed any tobacco products or drank any alcohol beverages for 40
years.

Now being in a half-mask respirator, and couldn’t spit, so you swallowed what you
coughed up and it could have some contamination, Everyone I know that worked in the
processing area’s had some internal contamination. I had body counts that came up
positive. They checked your lungs in the body counter and nothing else except urine
samples so you could have some radiation in your colon or stomach,

‘The following are some of the people I worked with that died of Cancer or Beryllium
Disease. All of these people worked in the Plutonium area at times. This list is the

people who worked the last few years with me in . We had about
people in the: Itis about 36% of the people died, quite a high percentage. I
would hate to see the list of all the people who worked at Rocky Flats that have or died of
Cancer,

NAME MANNO. DEATH CAUSE
Cancer
Cancer
Cancer
Beryllium

Cancer
Present Status of the following who worked in 865 building.
Had Cancer
Had Cancer
Has Beryllium disease
Jam sending a Perspective on the Dangers of Plutonium.
In reading this article, I have come to the conclusion no one can say cancer didn’t come

from plutonium at Rocky Flats. I had nd . . removed
were cancerous. I was in the hospital for and had to take chemotherapy for a





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Claims Processing File Number: fice of Worker Advocacy (EH-8)

United Steelworkers of America
Local 8031

P.O. Box 745370

Arvada, CO 80006-5370

This is a letter I wrote to: Office of Worker Advocacy (EH-8)
Office of Environment, Safety and Health
U.S. Department of Energy
Room IG080
1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20585

T want to give you some of my background working at Rocky Flats, Colorado.

I started employment in... _ad was immediately involved in radiation. I had to move
drums from __ building to what was old ailding but it has a new number now. In
moving these drums back and forth I was exposed to a lot of. ‘radiation, in fact health
Physics told me not to goin _uilding anymore. They thought it was necessary for me
toretumtc _uilding even though my film badge was over the limit for exposure. The
radiation involved was gamma and neutrons. I was involved in a fire in, silding
where 50 mil gloves bumed and fell off on the floor from a highly plutonium
contaminated box. We had to clean everything in the room from ceiling to oor. Using a
half-mask respirator while working we couldn’t spit or even remove our respirators even
if they had a lot of liquid in them. If we coughed we had to swallow what we coughed up
from our lungs. I went to a room that was called the snake pit that was the most
contaminated place on earth. They had Nash Pumps that leaked plutonium contaminated
liquid on the floor and then it would dry and could be airborne. Try wearing a half-mask

Tespirator for a couplé of hours at a time.

T became a and was involved in the most serious plutonium contamination at
Rocky Flats; it was the’ fire in * . . ouilding that was the most expensive fire in the
U.S.A. Iwas one of the first monitors to arrive at the Flats. It was Mothers day and I.
had to quit my dinner so I could go out to help. I was one of the first persons to come out
and the first one to check out and the laundry to see if contamination
got that far. We sent firemen in the highly contaminated rooms to put out the fire. The
firemen went in with survive air packs that constantly needed to be changed. It was our
job to make sure that the contaminated firemen wouldn’t be exposed to internal

plutonium contamination and we did our job wearing a half-mask respirator.

I worked in building many times, and they had an entry where you
had to undress the workers who were in supplied air. It was like a dry box highly
contaminated with plutonium. In the entry, they stored clothing but it became



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Appendix - Continuation Page

Worker Testimony Letters

We have included the following letters as relevant testimony from a just a handful of our workers
who have either had their doses inaccurately reported, had unmonitored exposures or have
contracted cancer after receiving plutonium exposure from Rocky Flats. These letters are
included as part of our petition. The United Steelworkers of America, Local 8031 has received
numerous letters and verbal statements from its membership in relation to their jobs, their work
experiences, exposures they may have received, and their current health. Listed below is a
summary of some of the letters we have received as well as a photocopy of the original letters.

¢ Achemical operator in 7 was involved in an explosion resulting in an exposure
to plutonium nitrate and 50 percent hydrogen peroxide. The only protective clothing he
had on was white coveralls and safety glasses. He spent a week in medical and never
knew the levels of contamination on his body. However his last body count in 2003
showed 12-hody burdens.

° An who worked in Buildings’ 2 | ing X-rayed pits and
other nuclear materials in high radiation areas. He wore a lead apron and gloves. The
dosimetry badge was required to be worn under the lead apron. He now has cancer of
the esophagus.

© ALL. . who worked in Buildings and —_ was exposed to high radiation
areas and never wore respiratory protection when handling parts. In fact, they used to eat
and drink in their work areas. He now bas cancer in the nasal pharynx, which then went
into the lymph nodes of his neck. These exposures were unmonitored and unrecorded.

«A handyman working in was informed that the trailer he was in charge of
became contaminated. He did not wear a dosimeter or any respiratory protection while
working in this area, He was later asked to submit a fecal sample a year after the event.
The sample was sent to an off site subcontractor laboratory and the results invalidated
by Internal Dosimetry. This is another example of unmonitored exposure.

o. ~~ worker-was exposed to very high radiation
level packages of plutonium oxides, salts, americium, etc. and was often required to
wear double {ead aprons and 60 or even 90 mil leaded gloves, yet he still had numerous
“No Current Data Available” dosimeter badge reports. So his exposure was going
unrecorded A fter being sent to a low-level exposure job at the solar ponds he was
informed that he had received a positive inhalation and that it must have come from his
days as a worker in

* Anemployee describes how certain contamination events would require the removal of
clothing and how these events would not be recorded. He also describes that radiation
‘was coming through a wall where he hung his dosimeter. He has been diagnosed with a
‘. _ an exceedingly rare form. He also reports having
met a former Rocky Flats guard who has the same form of tumor. Efforts are being
made to track down the former guard to obtain information on his work history.

‘The USWA, Local 8031 reserves the right to provide additional information beyond that which is included in this petition
and in support of our ability to obtain Special Exposure Cohort designation for the Rocky Flats class of workers.
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United Steelworkers of America

Local 8031 .

PO Box 745370 .

Arvada, CO 80006-5370 August 10, 2003

RE: Energy Employees Occupational [ness Compensation Act of 2000
Special Exposure Cohort

Contamination clothing removed due to contamination, Contatnination that was washed
off your body was not always reported and didn’t show up on all radiation monitors.

Respirators were worn when working in contamination areas. Clothing was removed as
you left the room or if an alarm went off. Health Protection people would then monitor
you. This was not recorded and wouldn’t show up on a TLD.

For Building he TLDs were not worn all day, but posted on the wall until you were
Soing to enter the inner facility, There was radiation found coming through the walls of
several of the office spaces a few times that was not captured for dose.

[havea _ - 3a high-grade
(Grade IV) tumor that is very aggressive; in fact, it is the most fatal form of

that exists, The average life expectancy with glioblastoma multiforme is approximately
54 to 65 weeks

Sincerely,

NOLWHOdHOO NASANNY Nosnon@)

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In early , I was assigned to . _ due to-

During my several month stay there, my work duties included breaking
down dosimeters to be read and re-assemble once they were counted. Often.
times when the Thermo Luminescent Dosimeter was being read (which was
done by a high heating process) the instrument failed and no readings were
available. Once these TLDs were heated to a certain temperature, they came
out zeroed, so essentially no dose could accurately be reconstructed. When I
asked © how he handled that, he told me that he applied a “Fudge
Factor” to assess dose. Another of my duties was to disassemble wrist
dosimeters and count the Lithium crystals inside for neutron dose. The
process involved removing the crystals under florescent lights, using
tweezers, then dipping the crystals in Ethel Alcohol before placing them in
the counters to be counted. Often times the crystals were dropped on the
floor and broken, so that only a small piece of the crystal was counted. My

1 i from the Rocky Flats Occupational Medical Department
clearly restricted me from being around Ethel Alcohol, which the company
ignored, when they assigned me to Dosimetry.



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ROCKY FLATS UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 8031
SPECIAL EXPOSURE COHORT PETITION

SUBMITTED TO:

SPECIAL EXPOSURE COHORT PETITION
OFFICE OF COMPENSATION ANALYSIS AND SUPPORT
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

SUBMITTED BY:
UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 8031
ON BEHALF OF OUR DEDICATED MEMBERSHIP

FEBRUARY 15, 2005



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The purpose of this letter is to canvey facts relevant to the.radiation exposure dosimeter program
formerly in place at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility/

From . , until sometime in the latter part of that same year, I was assigned to

in Building During said time, my daties included the -
where radiation dose rates of workers were assessed and recorded. During this period of time, the
style of dosimeter badges resembled a “tray” with small compartments used to hold components
of each workers badge in place. These trays were disassembléd and reassembled onategular  -
basis and contained a small lithium chip that measured approximately 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch
square. These chips were removed from the badges by dosimeter personnel for assessment in an
instrument. Because the chips were so small, it required workers to use tweezers to remove the
chips. This action often resulted in damage or complete loss of the chip because it would
dislodge itself from the end of the tweezers and land in the room. Chips were also lost during the
disassembly of badges as-components would dislodge themseives.and fail to the floor during this
process as well, Most of the workers could not find these chips after they had fallen, so the actual
dose rate associated with the badge being counted was completely lost. Bach day, when I would

i this room, the workers would sift through the ditt and remove these crystals.
They would usually find between 6 and 12 crystals per day. If these crystals were still in good
shape, they would be discharged and reused. These crystals were never evaluated for the dose
they had been exposed to because they had no way of knowing which crystal belonged to which
radiation worker. There were also several instances where as a crystal was heing read, the
foreman of the group would advise the dosimeter worker that the dose shown was toc-high to
possibly be .corcect, and the worker was advised to change or delete the reading Often times, for

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I worked at Rocky Flats from until

Most of my time was spent in building ma » At no time
did we wear protective equipment other than white coveralls in
building -

I worked asa in the aere uranium

parts were stored. It was a high radiation area. The whoie
building was eondidered “high radiation". We never wore a haif
mask when or or at any time.

We used to eat and drink in our work area.
Building _ _ where I worked. for several years, was also a high
radiation area. Again, the only protective equipment we wore
were white coveralls.

There were stacks of uranium ingots. Our where

the ingots were received and stored.

We took precautions to not contaminate the trailers as we

loaded, but no precautions were taken to protect ourselves,

such as a half mask or in some cases a full face mask, were never +
worn to protect against the oxidation dust and whatever elise

was floating around. Incidentally, my TLD readings were alwys
the same (within the acceptabie limits}. 1 have copies if
needed. ce, -
As a-result of my years in these two buildings, fter I
retired I was diagnosed with . . Which
went into the

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4. Accident Causes

@. Conditions that existed at the time of the accident: NORMAL

b. Actions on the Patt of the employee that contributed to the ocourence: _ NONE

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7. Supervisor responsible for corrective action:
Date: Extension:

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February 15, 2005

U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services & Office of
Compensation Analysis and Support

Page 2

Finally, as an accelerated closure site, Rocky Flats and all its infrastructure and subject
matter experts will be gone as early as October 2005. The closure of Rocky Flats means that
personnel engaged in future dose reconstruction will not have access to the institutional
knowledge necessary for dose reconstruction and the workers will be left without ongoing
recall programs that are instrumental in detecting previously undetected exposures and
refining the models used for dose reconstruction.

The people of Rocky Flats have dedicatedly and unselfishly toiled on behalf of the federat
government and the citizens of this great land to first make the world safe for democracy
through the production of nuclear weapons for the defense of our country and then later
make the environment safe for our children through accelerated cleanup and closure. It is
only right that now these same people should, if they become ill, be provided medical
coverage and compensation as part of the Special Exposure Cohort. We greatly appreciate
the opportunity to petition for Special Exposure Cohort on behalf of our members and will be
extremely appreciative of your timely designation of our Rocky Flats worker class for Special
Exposure Cohort particularly in light of our rapidly approaching closure.

Respectfully,

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Anthony W. DeMaiori
President

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Specfal Exposure Cohort Petition U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
under the Energy Employees Occupational Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Iliness Compensation Act National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

OMB Number: 0920-0639 Expires: 05/31/2007

Special Exposure Cohort Petition — Form B Page 4 of 7
E Proposed Definition of Employee Class Covered by Petition — Complete Section E.
E.1 Name of DOE or AWE Facility: Rocky Flats (also Rocky Flats Plant, Rocky Flats

. one Environmental Technology Site, Rocky Flats Closure Project)
£.2 Locations at the Facility relevant to this petition:
Facilities where plutonium operations occurred, facusing on but not limited to facilities with known high fired oxide processes or exposures.

Such as Buildings 371, 374, 559. 7! 74, 776, 7: 78, 779 and any others to be identi

£3 List job titles and/or job duties of employees included in the class. In addition, you can list by
name any individuals other than petitioners identified on this form who you believe should be
included in this class:

1 - See Tab E.3 for adgiti informatio:

£.4 Employment Dates relevant to this petition:

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St art End
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E.5  {s the petition based on one or more unmonitored, unrecorded, or inadequately monitored or
recorded exposure incidents?: & Yes D .No See Tab E.5 for additiona) details.

Sf yes, provide the date(s) of the incident(s} and a complete description (attach additional pages
as necessary):

This petition is based on multiple unmonitored, unrecorded or inadequately monitored or
recorded exposures that are not related to a specific incident. It is our contention that
throughout the history of the site it was common practice for incidents in the workplace
to be handed at the floor or building level and not officially reported. Some exposure
incidents were below the detection thresholds in place.at the time which varied greatly
over time. This is evidenced by the 2000/2001 Building 771 worker exposure incident
in which several workers were found to have received doses that had gone undetected
by workplace monitoring. Because there was no incident to tie the dose to, the dose
estimates assigned are suspect. Most importantly, this incident provides proof that
exposures routinely go undetected. Tab E.5 contains more information on this incident,
@ copy of the investigation report and details of additional incidents.

Name or Social Security Number of First Petitioner: Anthony W. DeMaiori, USWA, 8031



Asa monitor for _ ears you were always in the most contaminated areas to make sure r
the contamination was under control. If the contamination wasn’t under control you were
still in that area. Monitors wore respirators more than any other craft.

Ifyou have 250 counts per minute of plutonium in your system, an undetectable amount,
the results after a year would be131,400,000 counts. Counts meaning alpha particles and
an alpha particle has two neutrons and two protons and does not have any electrons,
therefore it is an ion. In the body an ion grabs two electrons from a body cell and kills

| the cell. If enough of the cells are killed or mutated it can cause cancer. Here is how {
came up with the 131,400,000 counts. 250 counts times 60 minutes would be 15,000
counts per hour times 24 hours is 360,000 counts per day times 365 days would be
131,400,000 counts per year. The half-life of plutonium is 24,000 years



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Special Exposure Cohort Petition U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
under the Energy Employees Occupational Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Labor Organi jon Information ~ Complete Section D ONLY if you are a labor organization.

United Steelworkers of America, local 8031 (Rocky Flats)
Name of Organization

President

Position of Contact Person

Name of Petition Representative:
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Street Apt P.O. Box

Golden Colorado -80403
City State Zip Code

Telephone Number of Petition Representative:
Email Address of Petition Representative:

Period during which labor organization represented employees covered by this petition
(please attach documentation): Start __ End . _
Identity of other labor organizations that may represent or have represented this class of
employees (if known):

Denver Metal Trades Council, United Mineworkers of America, International Union of District 50

Name or Social Security Number of First Petitioner:

Anthony W. DeMaiori, USWA, 8031



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INTEROFFICE CORRESPONDENCE

DATE: November 16, 1993

TO: ‘
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FROM: D. J. Walraven, Internal Dosimetry, Bldg. 123, X6182

SUBJECT: USE OF SUBCONTRACTOR BIOASSAY DATA - DIW-031-93

This letter is to update you on the status of the bioassay samples that you submitted as a
personal request on . Due to extended down-time of the Analytical
Laboratory located in Building 123, your fecal samples were sent to a subcontractor laboratory
for analysis, The results from the subcontractor laboratory did not meet all of the acceptance
criteria established by Radiological Health and therefore will not be used as valid data.

At this time, we do not have any valid data on which to evaluate your personal request case.
Therefore, we would like to offer you the option of resubmitting fecal samples. Although your
original request was made on the fecal samples you submit today can still
Provide some useful information. The samples that you resubmit will either be analyzed onsite
or at a different offsite laboratory.

Keep in mind that the decision to submit personal request bioassay samples is yours, and you
May choose not to submit any additional samples. If you'do not submit any additional fecal

samplés; then your personal request case will be closed and no further follow-up will be
required.

and sample submission cards for you. If you have any questions about your case, please contact
me at Extension 6182 or S. C. Baker, Manager of Internal Dosimeiry, at Extension 7439.

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Appendix - Continuation Page.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Report on Radiation Protection Review at the
Rocky Flats Plant, December 1, 1993.

Foster, P.P. 1991. “Study of plutonium oxide fuel inhalation case.” Radiation Protection
Dosimetry 38 (1-3): 141-146,

Investigation Team Report: Investigating the source of potential internal radiological
exposures involving eleven personnel in Building 771, Rocky Flats Environmental
Technology Site, March 15, 2001.

Newman, Lee; Mroz, Margaret; Ruttenber, James, Lung Fibrosis in Plutonium Workers,
May 31, 2002.

Office of Enforcement and Investigation, U.S. DOE, Consent Order, April 14, 1998.
PNNL-MA-860, Chapter 8.0: 8.13, Jan. 31, 2003.

Potential Health Problems from Exposure to Selected Radionuclides, Hanford Health
Information Network, May 2000.

Preliminary Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty, Office of
Price Anderson Enforcement, July 17, 2001.

Roth, Herrick S. 1989. Local 8031: ts Struggles and Its Victories. A.B Hirschfield Press,
Denver, CO.

Sullivan, M.T. Lifetime Dose Limitation and Neutron Dose Reconstruction, Letter, July
26, 1994.

Tontodonato, R-E., Trip to Review Feed Characterization for RFP Building 707 Thermal
Stabilization Process, Jan. 20, 1994, Letter, February 8, 1994.

Toxicological Profile for Plutonium, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
TP-90-21, December 1990.

Voelz, George, “Health Considerations for Workers Exposed to Plutonium,”
Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. October-December 1991, pp. 694.

Wilkinson, Gregg, “Mortality Among Plutonium and Other Radiation Workers at a
Plutonium Weapons Facility,” American Journal of Epidemiology, 1987, pp. 231-250.

Worker Testimony included as additional response to SEC Section F: Cindy Schubert,
Leonard Homan, Gary Burback, William Jordan, Don Williams, Howard Long, Harry
Charles Wolf, Robert Carlson.

The USWA, Local 8031 reserves the sight to provide additional information beyond that which is included in this petition
and in Support of our ability to obtain Special Exposure Cohort designation for the Rocky Flats class of workers.
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