Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§7384w–1 Completion of Site Profiles

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

If the Secretary of Labor decides it is useful and practical, they must tell the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to make site profiles for Department of Energy facilities. NIOSH must use DOE records and other available data, including records from DOE’s former worker medical screening program. The Secretary of Energy must give any information the Secretary of Labor needs. site profile — a study that lists the toxic substances or processes used in each building or process and the time periods when people could have been exposed. The Secretary of Health and Human Services must set deadlines to finish any missing site profiles and send those deadlines to Congress by March 1, 2005.

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Title 42, §7384w–1

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(a)In general

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)Information

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)Definition

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)Time frames

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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110