with work days of employment within the parameters (excluding aggregate work day requirements) established for other classes of employees included in the SEC. URL internet location:EXCERPT BY NIOSH EMPLOYEE (OCAS director): “Spokesman
Larry Elliott said the institute refuses to process the claims, saying it would require using documents classified for national security reasons.” — DeMoinesRegister.com; by staff writer URL internet location:
(REMINDER: See EXHIBIT 1 details regarding US House Reps. Judiciary Committee letter to US Attorney General).
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EXCERPTS: Although the institute has access to the classified papers,
it questions the ethics of using the records if the public can't examine them to verify the findings. Elliott will also be in St. Louis today to ask the institute's advisory board whether the Iowa plant claims should be processed anyway. . . The remaining claims have not met the radiation exposure threshold necessary to qualify for the compensation, Elliott said. They were filed by a range of workers, including secretaries, who would not have been in areas of radiation exposure, he said.” * * * * * * * * * *
Workers have testified that there was little to no radiation monitoring enforced during the period of time when the production of atomic weapons capable of mass destruction was mandated. The Manhattan Project eventually killed or maimed thousands of Japanese and American citizens.
However, after much controversy, the US President’s Advisory Board members finally determined that the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAP) was to be viewed as another “Special Exposure Cohort” site. Previously, a “SEC” status was denied when the USHHS-NIOSH employees decided that a dose reconstruction was possible. Even though the President’s Advisory Board had approved the IAAP “Special Exposure Cohort” petition, as of
