Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§7384w–1 Completion of site profiles

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 84— - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XVI— - ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION PROGRAM › Part Part B— - Program Administration › § 7384w–1

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Labor must tell the head of NIOSH to make site profiles for Department of Energy facilities when that is useful and possible. NIOSH will use records and other data the Secretary of Energy provides, plus any other available information such as the DOE former worker medical screening records. The Secretary of Energy must give any information the Labor Secretary needs. site profile — a short exposure review that names the toxic materials or processes used in each building or part of a facility and the time periods when people could have been exposed. The Secretary of Health and Human Services must set deadlines to finish any remaining site profiles and must send a report with those deadlines to Congress by March 1, 2005.

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Title 42, §7384w–1

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(a)To the extent that the Secretary of Labor determines it useful and practicable, the Secretary of Labor shall direct the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to prepare site profiles for a Department of Energy facility based on the records, files, and other data provided by the Secretary of Energy and such other information as is available, including information available from the former worker medical screening programs of the Department of Energy.

(b)The Secretary of Energy shall furnish to the Secretary of Labor any information that the Secretary of Labor finds necessary or useful for the production of such site profiles, including records from the Department of Energy former worker medical screening program.

(c)In this section, the term “site profile” means an exposure assessment of a facility that identifies the toxic substances or processes that were commonly used in each building or process of the facility, and the time frame during which the potential for exposure to toxic substances existed.

(d)The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish time frames for completing site profiles for those Department of Energy facilities for which a site profile has not been completed. Not later than March 1, 2005, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to Congress a report setting forth those time frames.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 7384w–1

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73