Definitions, RECA Eligibility and Screening Requirements

Definitions

The following are Definitions, Eligibility, and Screening Requirements for Compensation under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act amendments of 2000.

Uranium Miners

Definition: Individual must have been employed in an above-ground or underground uranium mine located in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, South Dakota, Washington, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, or Texas at any time during the period beginning on January 1, 1942, and ending on December 31, 1971.

Eligibility: Individual must have been exposed to 40 or more working level months of radiation while employed in a uranium mine during the time period referenced above.

Screening Requirements: Provided for the following diseases: primary lung cancer and certain non-malignant respiratory diseases including pulmonary fibrosis; cor pulmonale resulting from fibrosis, silicosis, and pneumoconiosis.

Uranium Millers

Definition: Individual must have been employed in a uranium mill located in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, South Dakota, Washington, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, or Texas at any time during the period beginning on January 1, 1942, and ending on December 31, 1971. The term 'uranium mill' includes milling operations involving the processing of uranium ore or vanadium-uranium ore, including both carbonate and acid leach plants.

Eligibility: Individual must have worked for at least 1 year during the time period referenced above.

Screening Requirements: Provided for the following diseases: primary lung cancer, certain non¬malignant respiratory diseases (including pulmonary fibrosis, cor pulmonale resulting from fibrosis, silicosis, and pneumoconiosis), renal cancer, and other chronic renal diseases including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury.

Ore Transporters

Definition: Individual must have been employed in the transport of uranium ore or vanadium¬uranium ore from mines or mills located in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, South Dakota, Washington, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, or Texas at any time during the period beginning on January 1, 1942, and ending on December 31, 1971.

Eligibility: Individual must have worked for at least I year during the time period referenced above.

Screening Requirements: Provided for the following diseases: primary lung cancer, certain non¬malignant respiratory diseases, renal cancer, and other chronic renal diseases including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury.

Downwinders

Definition: Individual must have been physically present in one of the affected areas downwind of the Nevada Test Site during a period of atmospheric nuclear testing. The individual must have lived or worked downwind of atmospheric nuclear tests in certain counties in Utah, Nevada, or Arizona for a period of at least 2 years during the period beginning on January 21, 1951, and ending on October 31, 1958, or for the period beginning on June 30, 1962, and ending on July 31, 1962.

Eligibility: The designated affected areas for the Nevada Test Site are in the State of Utah, the counties of Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sevier, Washington, and Wayne; in the State of Nevada, the counties of Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Nye, White Pine, and that portion of Clark County that consists of townships 13 through 16 at ranges 63 through 71; and in the State of Arizona, the counties of Apache, Coconino, Gila, Navajo, and Yavapai.

Screening Requirements: Provided for the following cancers: leukemia (other than chronic lymphocytic leukemia), lung cancer, multiple myeloma, lymphomas (other than Hodgkin's disease), and primary cancer of the thyroid, male or female breast, esophagus, stomach, pharynx, small intestine, pancreas, bile ducts, gall bladder, salivary gland, urinary bladder, brain, colon, ovary, or liver (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B is indicated).

Onsite Participants

Definition: The individual must have participated onsite in a test involving the atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device. The individual must have been present "onsite" above or within the official boundaries of the Nevada, Pacific, Trinity, or South Atlantic Test Sites at any time during a period of atmospheric nuclear testing and must have "participated" during that time in the atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device. (While onsite participants at the Pacific and South Atlantic test sites are eligible for RECA compensation, organizations located in these areas are not eligible to apply for RESEP grant funds.)

Eligibility: On-site means physical presence above or within the official boundaries of any of the following locations:

• The Nevada Test Site, Nevada - in the State of Utah, the counties of Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sevier, Washington, and Wayne; in the State of Nevada, the counties of Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Nye, White Pine, and that portion of Clark County that consists of townships 13 through 16 at ranges 63 through 71; and in the State of Arizona, the counties of Apache, Coconino, Gila, a portion of Mohave County (located north of the Grand Canyon), Navajo, and Yavapai.
• The Pacific Test Sites - Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, Johnston Island, Christmas Island, the test site for the shot during Operation Wigwam, the test site for Shot Yucca during Operation Hardtack I, and the test sites for Shot Frigate Bird and Shot Swordfish during Operation Dominic I and the official zone around each site from which non-test affiliated ships were excluded for security and safety purposes.
• The Trinity Test Site, New Mexico.
• The South Atlantic Test site for Operation Argus and the official zone around the site from which non-test affiliated ships were excluded for security and safety purposes.
• Any designated location within a Naval Shipyard, Air Force Base, or other official government installation where ships, aircraft or other equipment used in an atmospheric nuclear detonation were decontaminated.
• Any designated location used for the purpose of monitoring fallout from an atmospheric nuclear test conducted at the Nevada Test Site.

Screening Requirements: Provided for the following cancers: leukemia (other than chronic lymphocytic leukemia), primary lung cancer, multiple myeloma, lymphomas (other than Hodgkin's disease), and primary cancer of the thyroid, male or female breast, esophagus, stomach, pharynx, small intestine, pancreas, bile ducts, gall bladder, salivary gland, urinary bladder, brain, colon, ovary, or liver (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B is indicated).