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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6251 
To provide for health care benefits for certain nuclear facility workers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 
Mr. STRICKLAND (for himself, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Ms. DEGETTE, and 
Mr. BROWN of Ohio) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide for health care benefits for certain nuclear facility 
workers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy, after 
consultation with collective bargaining representatives of 
eligible workers described in subsection (b), shall establish 
a program to provide health care benefits for such work-
ers. 
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(b) ELIGIBLE WORKERS.—An individual shall be eli-
gible for benefits under the program established under 
subsection (a) only if the individual— 
(1) has been employed by a Department of En-
ergy prime contractor, or a subcontractor thereof, to 
perform duties, under a contract between such prime 
contractor and the Department of Energy for envi-
ronmental remediation, waste management, decon-
tamination and decommissioning, maintenance, secu-
rity, and administrative activities, at the Fernald 
Closure Project (Harrison, Ohio), the Mound Clo-
sure Project (Miamisburg, Ohio), or the Rocky Flats 
Environmental Technology Site (Golden, Colorado); 
and 
(2) would have qualified for health care benefits 
available for retirees under the health and welfare 
benefit plans sponsored by the prime contractors or 
subcontractors described in paragraph (1) had the 
individual’s employment not been terminated as a 
result of the accelerated closure of the site at which 
the individual was employed. 
(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘accelerated closure’’ means closure of a site on an 
accelerated schedule compared to the Department of Ener-
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gy’s plans for closure of such site set forth in its plans 
that were in place on January 1, 2000. 
(d) LEVEL OF BENEFITS.—To the extent provided 
in advance in appropriations Acts or otherwise available, 
medical benefits shall be provided under the program es-
tablished under subsection (a) at the same level as benefits 
are provided under the health and welfare benefit plans 
sponsored by the prime contractors described in subsection 
(b)(1) to employees who retired on January 1, 2005. 
(e) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy 
shall take all necessary actions to implement the program 
under this section through its contractors, subcontractors, 
or the benefit plan administrators at the sites described 
in subsection (b)(1). 
(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of En-
ergy such sums as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion. 
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