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| 201 | Gregory S. Fenner | |
| 202 | Michael D Logan | |
| 203 | H. Gaidine Oglesbee | I am an Energy Employees’ Occupational Illness Program (EEOICP) claimant since August 2001; an Independent National Advocate for over 22 years; and the National Nuclear Victims for Justice (NNVJ) domain manager. I agree with the content of this petition. The EEOICP provides voluminous jobs for government employees and allotted funding to pay for the outrageous administrative costs. It is necessary for the legislative branch of government to expeditiously reform their failed, discriminatory, harmful and scandalous EEOICPA of 2000 federal law. The dose reconstruction phase is defunct and unreliable and should be eliminated from the process. The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (USHHS) InterActive Radio Epidemiological Program (IREP) is a SENE’s contractor product that produces guesstimate results because of the unreliable and inaccurate input by mere health physicists who are not considered qualified by peer review oversight. Accepted peer reviewed science theory / methodology is protocol in the science world. Emphasis and/or focus should be on the existing “damaged collateral” nuclear facility workers who offer reliable testimony and evidence. But, the unique workforce is denied recognition. United States Department of Labor (USDOL) Secretary Elaine Chao's "Site Exposure Matrix" (SEM) was created by certain of her executive subordinates. The SEMs is operated by non-technical and non-credentialed USDOL claims’ examiners whose duty it is to orient the Secretary’s profiteering Direct Medical Consultants (DMC) and her Final Adjudication Branch hearing officers. The claims' examiners are usually attorneys who are paid $35 to $75 thousands dollar salaries depending on their qualifications. The SEM’s data is unreliable and incomplete. So, the claims' examiners and Final Adjudication Branch hearing officers choose to document their poor judgment and reasoning opines that they distribute to the claimant. The inept claims' examiners and FAB hearing officers admit they have the intent to conform with their manager's desire to deny as many meritorious claims as possible. The USHHS agents documented that they expected the claimants to eventually file lawsuits regarding their substantive and procedural civil rights. The USHHS agents went on to designate that they wanted to give the USDOL Secretary enough time to deny as many meritorious claims as possible. Then, when the EEOICPA stipulations are successfully reformed and adherence is strictly enforced by the legislators, only then will the intent of Congress be recognized as trustworthy and honorable. Until then, the government agents’ transgressions and breach of their fiduciary duties are transparent. The USDOL and USHHS administrators have proven they are incompetent and have no intention of complying with the federal law or the will of Congress. The agency subordinates are guided by the current US President George W. Bush who wants the EEOICP budget cut (witnessed and documented) so he has more funding to support his personal agenda items and his foreign wars. Then, the so-deemed libelous, conflicting, negligent and abusive USDOL and USHHS “caretakers” should be relieved of their EEOICP duties in the same manner—and for the same reasons—that the conflicting US Department of Energy (USDOE) nuclear facility “caretakers” were "ousted" from the EEOICP process October 28, 2004—malfeasance. |
| 204 | Carol Trickel | |
| 205 | David Mosser | |
| 206 | David Kidd | |
| 207 | Ralph W Sorenson | |
| 208 | Tracey L Chandler | |
| 209 | Anonymous | I give 100% of my support. I am embarrassed as an American that a petition is necessary to treat Ameicans as well as we treat non-Americans. why does it always come to this to get the money that american nuclear workers deserve for services rendered. richest nation in the world and we cant take care of our people!!!! |
| 210 | Kathryn Krol | |
| 211 | Anonymous | Both my husband and I have cancer that was likely to have been caused by working with Pu at Rocky Flats. I have received more letters showing research that was done to prove it was not caused from my work. This research likely cost more than it would have cost to just pay us. |
| 212 | Mary Latka | |
| 213 | Leonard A.Atencio | |
| 214 | Michael R Greene | I support this petition with my signature. As a current nuclear worker with past exposures to radiation and chemicals, I feel the government must compensate nuclear workers for their contribution to keep America free during the Cold War Era and presently that are currently ill, or possibly will be ill in the future. |
| 215 | David Munstermann | |
| 216 | Lily Sands | |
| 217 | Christine Von Feldt | |
| 218 | Ann Ellis | |
| 219 | Linda L. Rockey | |
| 220 | Veronica Ludlow | It took us over five years and dealing with a lot of hassel. It was a mess. I pray no one has to go through what we did. Get with it, that's what the men and women did when the goverment needed them and then put them in harms way. It's the right thing to do. |
| 221 | rich moore | management is not concerned about my safety. their"you can use stop work anytime" is a joke because you get targeted if you do. They (management)should wear shirts that say "It's a risk i'm willing to take, to get the job done". Hanford has hired alot of rocky flats lmangrs, they don't give a s--t all they want to do is get the job done and go back to colorado. feel free to e-mail me. but dont give out my name or e-mail. but i will help the cause |
| 222 | Gary Stiegler | |
| 223 | Linda Stiegler | |
| 224 | Bettye Kaye Richeson | |
| 225 | Sylvia Dodson | Our Father died of Metastiatic lung cancer with thoracic spine and lumbar spine and pelvic lung cancer mets and cancer of the GI tract, pancreas and biliary system. There is no doubt his 41 years of exposure to toxics and UF6 vapors caused his early death. My sister and I took care of both of our parents . We took our father for chemotherapy, radiation treatments, physician visits and there was nothing the physicians could do. They agreed it was the many years of exposure to toxins and hazardous chemicals and UF6 cylinders and working at K-25 that caused his death.
In 1998 I asked for my father's records. When I got them they had many hazardous accident reports in them. Looking at his records alone was enough to know what caused his death. This was 2 years before EEOICPA was started. In 2000 I requested his records again from DOE. I was shocked to see many papers blacked out and copied with another piece of paper covering sections. AND ALL OF THE ACCIDENT REPORTS WERE NOT INCLUDED!! Many other reports were missing!
Our Father did a lot of consulting work at Portsmoutn, Paducah, Oklahoma and other places. He was exposed to UF6 vapors without a mask or gloves. His quick response prevented that accident from being worse than it was. His quick response also saved lives and the community from further exposure to toxic vapors.
In 2004 DOE informed me our claim Part D was getting ready to be presented to the Physicians Panel for approval and then next month I was told our file was being transferred to Part E and it was in a tractor trailer truck on the way to Washington. Our claim for Part E has been denied 4 times! DOL tells us over and over that Congress must amend the law before we can receive Part E. We are like the sick workers they are just waiting for us to die!!
In our second denail letter from DOL they had our Father's Social Security number incorrect, DOL had him listed as a widower, he was not a widower, DOL had him married to someone else, someone we have never heard of and DOL had his death date incorrect. It's obvious there is lack of compassion and competence.
I strongly believe there is a high rate of cross-contamination Especially to children whose parent worked during the 1940's when toxins were at the highest level during the COLD WAR!
Our father worked at Oak Ridge, TN at K-25 for 41 years. When he was being diagnosed with Metastiatic lung cancer with thoracic spine and lumbar spine and pelvic lung cancer mets and cancer of the GI tract, pancreas and biliary system I was just diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, Lupus, Fibrosis of the lungs, along with Osterarthritis, Osteoporosis, and a number of other health and lung issues. I had 8 specialists before he died in 1988.
Yet the Government will not compensate Part E claims to surviving adult children unless they were under 18 when the parent died or 23 and in college. This is unjust and unfair! Our father also served his country in the Marines. ONE PERSON'S LIFE IS JUST AS GREAT AS ANOTHER NO MATTER HOW OLD THE CHILDREN WERE WHEN THEY DIED!
The regulations state.
(d) DEFINITIONS
(1) The term "covered spouce" means a spouce of the employee who was married to the employee for at least one year immediately before the employee's death----
(2) Thde term "covered child" means a child of the employee who, as of the employee's death___
(A) had not attained the age of 18 years;
(B) had not attained the age of 23 years and was a full-time student who had been continuously enrolled as a full-time student in one or more educational institutions since attaining the age of 18 years;
OR
(C) had been incapable of selp-support.
My Rheumatologist wrote a letter about my medical condition and I asked that our claim be reopened but DOL denied again. At our oral hearing we presented documents that were 5 inches thick. Proof of my financial dependency on my parents to help pay for my medications and medical bills. BUT, because I was not disabled when my father died our claim was denied again.. I struggled to work on 7 more years until I could no longer. When I finally filed for disability the Social Security Administration asked me why had I did not file in 1988? I had to make a living somehow....how could I afford to stop working? I could not even make it on my own when I was working. We have proof I was not self supportive.
The change of law by the Bush Adminstration under Part E ...defining surviving adult children 18 years of age or 23 yrs and in college. NOT many surviving children were under 18 yrs old when their parent died and worked in the 1940's.
It is now going on 8 years that my family has been dealing with EEOICPA. It has been a nighmare! It has caused additional health issues due to the stress. Unbelievable expectations, costs, getting medical records that are 30 yrs old, financial records to prove my parents helped me. We have spent well over $1,000 in coping and postage to Washington, Jacksonville and local politicians. We need closure on this injustice. I will never feel justice has been served until we get all and full compensation for what our family has endured because of the lies and deceit. The government needs to do the right thing NOW! Our Father had 15 of the listed cancers under the Special Exposure Cohort. |
| 226 | Jean Puchstein | This is a sin and a disgrace that these faithful workers or their survivors have not already been compensated even this small amount (less then 1/2 the price of a new armored Humvee) and adequate medical expenses. |
| 227 | John Krol | |
| 228 | Molly Johnson | |
| 229 | Donna Clements | |
| 230 | Guy Cornish | I worked at INL and have severe respiratory issues consistant with Berylliun Desease. |
| 231 | Richard Olds | |
| 232 | rose a wagaman | |
| 233 | Betty Scarpella | |
| 234 | Tom Wright | I worked at the Pinellas Plant here in St. Pete for fifteen years I had to have my Thyriod removed due to Tritium (ionizing radiation exposure) but the Labor Dept denied my claim. The Program is a complete sham! Good people that served this country are dying every single day with devistated family members left to pick up the pieces |
| 235 | Edgar M. Jewett Jr. | As a man with a large dose of asbestos in his lungs I would like to see this matter expedited. |
| 236 | mark craig | |
| 237 | Anonymous | No information from the government about what they were really working with and how toxic it really was. Then when they get sick and die or can't work, the government doesn't want to compensate them for withholding important information, crucial to the their health and their lives. What is wrong with this picture? Had they told them all along how poisionious/deadly these things were, then at least they could have made a decision about their fate. |
| 238 | Preston Truman | |
| 239 | JoAn Saltzen | |
| 240 | Dana McKay | Each and every thing in the petition is true I personally have wittnessed these atrocitices first hand I was seven years olds when I lost both of my parents, I am not a scienctist , but I know in my heart what really happened |
| 241 | Danny K. Sanders | April 4, 2008
Dear NNWJ :
I have been to many meetings, read the transcripts and heard many discussions at various Board meetings by dialing in to the toll free numbers. The one thing that struck me in a very favorable way, was NIOSH's Kate Kimpan's statements regarding how important the EEOICPA project was because it is to provide justice to the many ill workers that dedicated themselves to such an impossible task during the war effort. She said that this project is for those people, and we should do all we can for those workers and/or their families. She also said that when in doubt, the direction of choice is always for the worker. I now realize that this isn't true!
My father, Carl L. Sanders and my mother Evelyn L. Sanders came to Oak Ridge in 1942 to work. They lived in the Happy Valley Workers encampment that was built by the Army Corps of Engineers for the construction workers that were building the K-25 plant. They lived there for almost six years. This encampment was directly across the street from the U building at K-25. My dad was employed by government contractor J.A. Jones and my mother did various jobs as a volunteer. My oldest brother was there too and my sister was born while they lived there. This encampment was built specifically to provide the government with workers in very close proximity that could literally walk to work, work 10 to 12 hour shifts and work on weekends too. Both of my parents were diagnosed with cancer within six months of each other. Mom with breast cancer and dad with prostate cancer. Mom died in 1983 when her cancer spread to her brain and dad suffered with prostate cancer until he died in a car accident in 2002. He was surgically castrated in 1982 as part of his treatment and remained on medications for the rest of his life. My dad had just started his and my mothers EEOICPA claims when he died in 2002. We, my brothers and sister filed these claims in 2002. Mom's claim was denied because there was no prof of her volunteer employment. Dads case was first denied because he fell a little short of the 50% likelihood. After reading the2004 report we realized that DOL failed to provide NIOSH with 6 years of employment. They did another Dose Reconstruction two years later in 2006 and he failed to make the cut again. This time it was because NIOSH changed their methodologies for doing DRs plus they didn't allow any of the ambient dose exposure amounts they allowed in the first DR. We appealed this decision based on these concerns and the fact that if they had done it right to start with and in a timely manner this would have been over with a long time ago. Well, they did a third DR and completed it in 2007. This DR was to include "Super-S" plutonium exposure and address our other concerns. The report came back denied and there was no mention of any of our concerns. We later spoke with one of the supervisors at NIOSH who tried to explain it away and say that they could only act within the parameters of their mandated guidelines. Another words, they said we need to take it up with DOL again in our next appeal. I hope that I have covered this clearly enough for you to see that this is one big mess and that our government is once again taking advantage of the true patriots of WWII and of the Cold War. Respectfully, Danny K. Sanders email sandersd8@k12tn.net. PH # 865-216-2469
Danny K. Sanders |
| 242 | Michael Dupree | Pay them and end this stupidity |
| 243 | Terry Dupree | |
| 244 | Betty Dupree | |
| 245 | Bridget Dupree | |
| 246 | John Felan | |
| 247 | Denise Trujillo | |
| 248 | Anonymous | |
| 249 | Patricia J. Ameno | I've been fighting for the workers of the Apollo and Parks Township, Pa NUMEC plants for the past 20 years. I managed to get SEC for both sites. However, the EEOICPA is truly riddled with gaps and inconsistcies. |
| 250 | tam bodanza | |