Part B of EEOICPA provides compensation for workers, or their survivors, with radiation induced cancers, beryllium disease or silicosis (chronic silicosis - Nevada Test Site and Alaska only). Claimants whose claims are approved will receive a lump-sum payment of $150,000 and medical benefits for the covered illness. Some claimants paid under Part B will also receive benefits under Part E with up to $250,000 in lump-sum payments.
In addition to having worked for a specific period of time at one of the SEC work sites, a covered employee must also have at least one of the following types of cancer to qualify for compensation under the SEC:
The following diseases provided onset was at least five years after first exposure:
- Bone cancer
- Renal cancers
- Leukemia (other than chronic lymphocytic leukemia) provided the onset of the disease was at least two years after first exposure
- Lung cancer (other than in-situ lung cancer that is discovered during or after a post-mortem exam)
The following diseases provided onset was at least five years after first exposure:
- Multiple myeloma
- Lymphomas (other than Hodgkin’s disease)
- Primary cancer of the:
- Bile ducts
- Brain
- Breast (female)
- Breast (male)
- Colon
- Esophagus
- Gall bladder
- Liver (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B is indicated)
- Ovary
- Pancreas
- Pharynx
- Salivary gland
- Small intestine
- Stomach
- Thyroid
- Urinary bladder
SEC Cancers
- Allied Chemical Corporation
- Amchitka Island Nuclear Explosion Site
- Ames Laboratory
- Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory
- Argonne National Laboratory-West
- Baker Brothers
- Battelle Laboratories – King Avenue
- Bethlehem Steel Company
- Blockson Chemical Company
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- BWX Technologies, Inc. (Virginia)
- Canoga Avenue Facility
- Clarksville Modification Center (formerly Clarksville Facility)
- Clinton Engineer Works (CEW)
- Combustion Engineering
- Connecticut Aircraft Nuclear Engine Laboratory (CANEL)
- De Soto Avenue Facility
- Dow Chemical Company (Pittsburg, CA)
- Dow Chemical Corporation (Madison Site)
- Downey Facility
- Electro Metallurgical
- Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC)
- General Atomics
- General Electric Company (Ohio)
- Grand Junction Facilities
- Hanford
- Harshaw Chemical Company
- Hood Building
- Hooker Electrochemical
- Horizons, Inc.
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Iowa Ordnance Plant
- Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Co.
- Kellex/Pierpont
- Lake Ontario Ordnance Works
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Linde Ceramics Plant
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, Destrehan Street Facility
- Medina Modification Center (formerly Medina Facility)
- Metallurgical Laboratory
- Metals and Controls Corp.
- Monsanto Chemical Company (now listed as The Dayton Project)
- Mound Plant
- Nevada Test Site (NTS)
- Norton Co.
- Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC)–Apollo
- Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC)–Parks Township
- Nuclear Metals, Inc.
- Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (K-25 Site)
- Oak Ridge Hospital
- Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies (Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education or ORISE)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL/X-10)
- Pacific Proving Grounds
- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
- Pantex Plant
- Piqua Organic Moderated Reactor
- Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
- Revere Copper and Brass
- Rocky Flats Plant
- S-50 Oak Ridge Thermal Diffusion Plant
- SAM Laboratories, Columbia University
- Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California)
- Sandia National Laboratories (New Mexico)
- Savannah River Site
- Simonds Saw and Steel Co.
- Spencer Chemical Co., Jayhawks Works
- St. Louis Airport Storage Site (SLAPS)
- Standard Oil Development Co. of NJ
- Texas City Chemicals, Inc.
- Tyson Valley Powder Farm
- University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project
- Ventron Corporation
- Vitro Manufacturing (Canonsburg)
- W. R. Grace (Erwin, Tennessee)
- W.R. Grace and Company (Curtis Bay, Maryland)
- Wah Chang
- West Valley Demonstration Project
- Westinghouse Atomic Power Development Plant
- Westinghouse Electric Corp. (New Jersey)
- Winchester Engineering and Analytical Center
- Y-12 Plant
Work Sites with Classes in the SEC
For more information, visit https://www.energy.gov/ehss/energy-employees-occupational-illness-compensation-program
