5 working days = about 2 claims per day would be “churned out” by each employee. 464 USDOL employees X 39 claims completed by each employee per month = 18,096 claims “churned out” by each employee per month X 12 months = 217,152 claims would be “churned out” by the USDOL employees in a year X 4 years = 868,608 claims could have been “churned out” for 4 years. Actually, only 15,972 compensated claimants have been
“churned out” by the 464 USDOL employees to October 12, 2005.
Quote August 2005:
“The Department of Labor has definitely improved things. Peter Turcic, director of the compensation program, says the agency's "real concern is that we know people have been waiting a long time. We are putting out hundreds of claims each week.'' * * * * * * * * * *
By October 2005, the members of Congress must realize that the EEOICPA legislation (a part of the 2001 – 2003 - 2004 Defense Authorization Bill) was/is “too loosely worded!” Public Law 106-398, and now 108-375 (Subtitle E amendment), are so loosely worded, the legislators neglected to specify or defend the Rule of Law the reckless department employees are to abide by.
QUESTION: Why hasn’t Hanford — the most dangerous nuclear site in the Nation according to the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board (a direct report to Congress) — been declared a “Special Exposure Cohort” nuclear site?
EXCERPTS: USHHS CDC-NIOSH’s “Summary of Findings” (Hanford
Edition); dated January 2001 (1) "Some remediation workers who have worked at DOE sites cannot be identified." NIOSH explanation: "Complete rosters of current and former remediation workers do not exist. Re-construction of rosters from multiple data sources at the sites is labor intensive and may exclude some groups of workers." (2) "Accurate and complete exposure, work history, and medical records data are not available for this population." NIOSH explanation: "Although radiation exposure records appear to be complete, decentralized responsibility for chemical exposure assessment and other records has led to gaps in exposure, work history, and medical data."