§2734 Programs for Persons Who May Have Been Exposed to Radiation Released From Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must give $3,000,000 to Washington, $1,000,000 to Oregon, and $1,000,000 to Idaho from funds authorized under Title XXXI of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101–510). The money must be used to create and run programs for people who may have been exposed to radiation released from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (Richland, Washington) between 1944 and 1972. The programs can only include three things: giving health information to doctors and people who might have been exposed, creating ways to refer those people to doctors who know about radiation effects, and studying and possibly setting up registration and monitoring of such people. Washington, Oregon, and Idaho must make one joint plan, send it to the Secretary of Energy and Congress by May 5, 1991, and send one report on how the plan was carried out by May 5, 1992. They must consult current radiation research programs (including the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study of the CDC and the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project of the Department of Energy) and not harm those studies. The states may not tell the public any information that identifies people involved in these programs (names, addresses, phone numbers, medical details, or other categories the three health chiefs jointly set) unless the person or their legal representative gives written consent. The states must create uniform rules for consent, use and future handling of the Hanford Health Information Network database, and enforcement of these privacy rules.