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
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 Area. Burning 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