Huntington Pilot Plant

(Site Profile/Docket Number 017)

Location: Huntington, West Virginia

Also Known As: Reduction Pilot Plant

Special Exposure Cohort Petition Information

The Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) is a unique category of employees established by the Act (42 CFR Part 83). Claims compensated under the SEC do not have to go through the dose reconstruction process. To qualify for compensation under the SEC, a covered employee must meet specific requirements (e.g., must have at least one of 22 “specified cancers,” and have worked for a specified time period at one of the SEC sites). Classes of employees and work sites can be considered for addition to the SEC through a NIOSH petition process. More information about the Special Exposure Cohort can be found on our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Open/Active SEC Petitions

To date, there are no open/active SEC petitions from Huntington Pilot Plant.

Worker Outreach Activities

Based on a recommendation from the Advisory Board to provide workers and site experts with opportunities to participate in developing the technical documents used in dose reconstruction, NIOSH established a Worker Outreach Program.

At Worker Outreach Meetings, current and former DOE and AWE employees have opportunities to obtain information about Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins, and to provide information for consideration and possible use in dose reconstruction. This process is valuable to ensure that the technical documents used in dose reconstruction contain correct and useful information.

Worker Outreach Activities for the Huntington Pilot Plant:

• March 23, 2010
  Meeting with Members of United Steelworkers of America (USW) Local 40 and Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR)
  Final Minutes [75 KB (12 pages)]
• January 5, 2006
  Meeting with United Steelworkers of America (USW) Local 40, Huntington, West Virginia
  Final Minutes [72 KB (10 pages)]

Technical Documents

If the energy employee’s personal radiation information is incomplete, NIOSH will use other sources to estimate the radiation dose. This may involve using technical documents called Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins.

Technical Basis Documents

• Technical Basis Document for the Huntington Pilot Plant, Huntington, West Virginia [900 KB (32 pages)]
  Revised November 5, 2018

  Revision Includes: Corrected intake values in the last three rows of Table 5.

Advisory Board and NIOSH Discussions on Huntington Pilot Plant

The Huntington Pilot Plant discussion papers listed below are working documents prepared by NIOSH or its contractor for use in discussions with the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health or its Working Groups or Subcommittees. Draft, preliminary, interim, and white paper documents are not final NIOSH or Advisory Board (or their technical support and review contractors) positions unless specifically marked as such. These documents represent preliminary positions taken on technical issues prepared by NIOSH or its contractor.

The discussion papers have been reviewed to identify and redact any information that is protected by the Privacy Act 5 USC §552a and have been cleared for distribution.

• SC&A Presentation: SC&A’s Review of NIOSH’s SEC-00253 Petition Evaluation Report for the Reduction Pilot Plant, Huntington, WV [417 KB (23 pages)]
  Presentation at the April 27-28, 2022, Teleconference Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health

• NIOSH/DCAS Memo: Reduction Pilot Plant SEC Evaluation Review [121 KB (4 pages)]
  April 29, 2021

• SC&A Draft: SC&A’s Review of NIOSH SEC-00253 Petition Evaluation Report for the Reduction Pilot Plant, Huntington, WV [564 KB (38 pages)]
  Contract No. 75D30119C04183
  Document No. SCA-TR-2021-SEC003, Revision 0
  April 2, 2021

• SC&A Draft: DCAS-PER-066, SUBTASK 4 Review of Impacted Cases Reworked for the Evaluation of Internal Intakes from the Huntington Pilot Plant [119KB (14 pages)]
  Contract No. 211-2014-58081
  October 11, 2016

• SC&A Draft: DCAS-PER-033, Subtask 4 Review of Impacted Cases Reworked for the Evaluation of Internal Intakes and Shallow Dose from the Huntington Pilot Plant [386 KB (12 pages)]
  Contract No. 200-2009-28555
  January 15, 2014

• SC&A Draft: OCAS-PER-025, Subtask 4 Review of One Impacted Case Reworked for the Evaluation of Shallow Dose from the Huntington Pilot Plant [372 KB (10 pages)]
  Contract No. 200-2009-28555
  December 5, 2013

• SC&A: Huntington Pilot Plant Site Profile Review – Findings Matrix [102 KB (4 pages)]
  November 18, 2013

• SC&A Presentation: OCAS-PER-025 and DCAS-PER-033, Subtasks 1–3 Evaluation of Huntington Pilot Plant (HPP) TBD Revisions (SC&A Report Dated July 18, 2013) [387 KB (23 pages)]
  (Presentation from the November 7, 2013, Teleconference Meeting of the Advisory Board’s Subcommittee for Procedures Review)

• SC&A Draft: A Review of NIOSH’s Program Evaluation Reports OCAS-PER-025 and OCAS-PER-033, “Huntington Pilot Plant TBD Revisions” [421 KB (16 pages)]
  Contract No. 200-2009-28555
  SCA-TR-PR2013-0082, Rev. 0
  July 18, 2013

• SC&A Draft: Review of the Revised Huntington Pilot Plant Site Profile [537 KB (25 pages)]
  Contract No. 200-2009-28555
  SCA-TR-SP2013-0043
  June 4, 2013

• SC&A Draft: Preliminary Review of the Revised Site Profile for the Huntington Pilot Plant [65 KB (12 pages)]
  Contract No. 200-2009-28555
  March 21, 2013

Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs) and Program Evaluation Reports (PERs)

NIOSH is committed to applying the best available science in dose reconstructions. In keeping with this commitment, completed cases with probabilities of causation less than 50% are reviewed as relevant new information becomes available. The results of these reviews are described in a Program Evaluation Report (PER). The PER details the effect, if any, of the new information on the completed dose reconstruction. If it appears that the new information may result in an increase in dose for a completed dose reconstruction with a probability of causation of less than 50%, NIOSH is committed to working with the Department of Labor to reopen and rework the dose reconstruction, as appropriate. A Program Evaluation Plan (PEP) describes plans for evaluating specific program details or issues.

• DCAS-PER-066: Huntington Pilot Plant Program Evaluation Report, Rev. 0 [87 KB (2 pages)]
  November 30, 2015

  About this Document: Determines the effect of the revision to DCAS-TKBS-0004, (Huntington Pilot Plant) on previously completed claims.

  Summary: The probability of causation (POC) remained below 50% for the effected claims. NIOSH will provide the Department of Labor with the list of all claims evaluated under this PER. Since none would now result in a POC greater than 50%, NOSH will not request the return of any of the claims.

• OCAS-PER-0025 Rev-00: Program Evaluation Report: Huntington Pilot Plant TBD Revision [14 KB (1 page)]
  September 28, 2007

  About this Document: New document to determine which previously completed claims require evaluation for the effect of revising the Huntington Pilot Plant TBD.

  Summary: There was one Huntington Pilot Plant claims completed for the above target organs with a probability of causation below 50% prior to 1/16/2004. NIOSH is requesting that this claim be returned for a new dose estimate. A new dose reconstruction will be completed using the latest revision to the Huntington Pilot Plant TBD.

Public Comments on Huntington Pilot Plant Documents

How to Submit Comments

Comments on Huntington Pilot Plant Documents can be submitted to the NIOSH Docket Officer electronically by email at nioshdocket@cdc.gov or printed comments can be mailed to:

NIOSH Docket Office
Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34
1090 Tusculum Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45226
Please include the Site Profile/Docket Number (017) on all comments.

Comments Received

At this time, no comments have been submitted.

Document Archive for Huntington Pilot Plant

• Basis for Development of an Exposure Matrix for Huntington Pilot Plant

  • Revised January 16, 2004 [410 KB (17 pages)]

    Revision Includes: Revision resolves issue of exposure to electrons and make document applicable to skin cancers.

  • Approved October 31, 2003 [683 KB (17 pages)]

• Technical Basis Document for Huntington Pilot Plant

  • Revised December 12, 2013 [457 KB (32 pages)]

    Revision Includes: Adds values of Am-241, Th-230, and Tc-99 to Tables 4 and 5. Changes (corrects) the header of the fourth column of Table A-2 to “Photons per hour per Ci 238U.” Corrects three errors in the text of Section 6.2 describing dose and dose rates (actual doses reported for dose reconstructions in Table 6 were correct). Incorporates formal review comments.

    Note: Supersedes “Basis for Development of an Exposure Matrix for Huntington Pilot Plant”

  • Approved August 13, 2008 [413 KB (30 pages)]