CDC Seeks Input on Job-Related Sickness Tracking
Published Date: 7/28/2025
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Summary
The CDC wants your thoughts on a plan to collect info about workers who might have gotten sick from their jobs. This helps decide if certain groups should get special health benefits. If you’re involved or interested, now’s the time to speak up—this could affect workers and the government’s paperwork for years to come.
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You can petition to add worker classes
If you are an energy program worker who might have gotten sick from your job, you (or others) can submit a petition to HHS asking to add a class of employees to the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA). The CDC is proposing an information collection that would permit those petitions and is asking the public for comment under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
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