The President is authorized under Public Law 106-398 Section 3624 and by Executive Order No. 13179 to establish and appoint members to serve on his Advisory Board on Radiation and Workers Health. Also see 5 United States Code (U.S.C.) App. 2 at URL internet location: http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/facastat.pdf
The US President’s Advisory Board is authorized to advise the President under the
“Federal Advisory Committee Act” Public Law 92-463 as amended at URL internet location: http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title5a/5a_1_.html
However, the intent of the RULE OF LAW affirms. . .
EXCERPT: § 2 Findings and Purpose
(b) The Congress further finds and decrees that -- . . .(6) the function of advisory committees should be advisory only, and that all matters under their consideration should bedetermined, in accordance with law, by the official, agency, or officer involved. — (Pub. L. 92-463, § 2, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770.)* * * * * * * * * *
The USDOL’s OWCP director Shelby Hallmark, direct report to the USDOL Secretary Elaine Chao, routinely attends many of President George W. Bush’s Advisory Board meetings. President Bush assigned the administrative duties governing the Advisory Board to USHHS Secretary Tommy Thompson who resigned and is replaced by Mike Leavitt. The USDOL Employment Standards Administration director Peter Turcic stated the following during hearings / Towne Hall meetings. The statement is vehemently and redundantly rejected by the USHHS employees. Clarification was necessary when Turcic redundantly responds to the public(s) inquiries in the following manner:
EXCERPT: “All cancers are covered under the act," emphasized
Pete Turcic, director of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program for the Department of Labor.” * * * * * * * * * *
QUESTION: If “all cancers are covered under the ACT,” then why do the members of Congress and the USHHS department employees only recognize 22 qualified cancers that they, also, apply to the “Special Exposure Cohort” aspects? Previously, the USDOL employees designated they were not going to recognize metastasis cancers. The USHHS employees promulgate that the members of Congress were responsible for selecting the qualifying cancers. Certain cancers that are excluded from the USHHS 22 qualified cancer list are prostate, Hodgkin's,
