A USDOL Precedential Claim No 16917-2004, dated September 23, 2004
  — an example of the department employees’ unlawful “interim rules”
  that are depicted as the Rule of Law and/or due process.    — See
  EXHIBIT 28 for details.

EXCERPT:  “The implementing regulations provide that…Within
  60 days from the date the recommended decision is issued, the
  claimant must state, in writing, whether he or she objects to any
  of the findings of fact and/or conclusions of law contained in such
  decision, including HHS’s reconstruction of the radiation
  dose to which the employee was exposed (if any), and whether a
  hearing is desired,”  20 C.F.R. § 30.310(a).  The regulations further
  state that, 'If the claimant does not file a written statement that
  objects to the recommended decision and/or requests a hearing
  within the period of time allotted in section 30.310, or if the
  claimant waives any objections to all or part of the recommended
  decision, the FAB may issue a final decision accepting the
  recommendation of the district office, either in whole or in part,
  20 C.F.R. § 30.316(a).  In this case, you did not file a written
  objection to the recommended decision or a request for a hearing.' "

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The USDOL employees announced that as of February 2005, they are issuing compensation checks to the survivors of nuclear workers rather than the surviving workers.  By May of 2005, the “departments” intent was to force the surviving sick workers to wait while their bureaucratic system determined a potential ways and means to determine eligibility.  The USDOL “defendants” excuse — “it is too difficult for the unqualified employees to assess how much to pay workers for their back-pay and disabilities.”

Regarding the few US Health and Human Services (USHHS) preferred IT market contractors’ “site profiles:”  Senator Tom Harkin and Senator Chuck Grassley diligently arranged for the approval of a “class” of  Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAP) sick workers to receive “Special Exposure Cohort” (SEC) status.  — SEC Petition Evaluation Report:  Petition SEC-00006-2; Submitted 6-14-2005; Rev 0

EXCERPT:  9.0   Proposed Class Definition
  This evaluation defines a single class of employees for when
  NIOSH has established that it cannot estimate radiation does with
  sufficient accuracy and who health may been endangered by such
  radiation doses.  The class only includes employees whose job title
  was radiographer working at the IAAP Line 1, which includes
  Yard C, Yard G, Yard L, Firing Site AreaBurning Field B” and
  Buildings 73 and 77, from May 1948 to March 1949, and whom
  were employed for a number of work days aggregating at least
  250 work days occurring under this employment in combination
 
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