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Reduction Pilot Plant
(Site Profile/Docket Number 074)
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Also known as: Huntington 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
There is currently one open/active SEC petition from Reduction Pilot Plant, Petition 253. Congress has 30 days from the date on the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services decision document to review the Secretary’s decision. If Congress takes no action, the Secretary’s decision takes effect after the 30-day period.
Class(es) Added to the SEC
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No classes have been added to the SEC at this time.
Petitions Qualified for Evaluation
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Below is a list of the petitions that qualified for evaluation. Select a petition on the list to view the table for that particular petition.
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 Reduction Pilot Plant:
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No worker outreach activities have been planned for the Reduction Pilot Plant at this time.
Advisory Board Work Group on Uranium Refining Atomic Weapons Employers (AWEs)–formerly TBD 6001 Work Group
This Work Group reviews technical documents and Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) petitions for uranium refining AWEs assigned to it by the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health. The Work Group makes recommendations to the Board on SEC petitions, reviews reports developed by the Board’s contractor (SC&A), and assists NIOSH and SC&A in resolving issues that arise through the review process.
Sites currently being considered by the Work Group include: General Atomics, Hooker Electrochemical, Reduction Pilot Plant, Westinghouse Electric Corp. (New Jersey), and W.R. Grace (Erwin, TN).
Meeting information (including agendas and transcripts) for this Work Group can be found on either the individual work site pages or on the Advisory Board and Public Meetings page.
Note: Baker-Perkins Co., Du Pont Deepwater Works, Electro Metallurgical Company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC) – Apollo, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. (NUMEC) – Parks Township, and United Nuclear Corp. were previously discussed by this Work Group, but are not currently under discussion.
Work Group Members:
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Henry A. Anderson, M.D. (Chair)
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David Kotelchuck, Ph.D., M.P.H., C.I.H.
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David Pompa
Meeting Information
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February 17, 2022 Teleconference Meeting of the Uranium Refining Atomic Weapons Employers (AWEs) Work Group
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Please note that as part of the procedures and processes of the Advisory Board’s Work Groups, several kinds of pre-decisional documents may be developed. These pre-decisional documents, such as white papers, matrices, working drafts, etc., are distributed among Work Group members as research and background tools to facilitate discussion and deliberation. Although discussion during a public meeting may cover pre-decisional documents, these documents often are not further revised or finalized, and thus do not reflect the final determination or evaluation of the Advisory Board and its Work Groups. Additionally, some pre-decisional documents not otherwise posted on the website may contain sensitive information, which would require an interested party to obtain such documents by filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the CDC/ATSDR FOIA office at foiarequests@cdc.gov.
Advisory Board and NIOSH Discussions on Reduction Pilot Plant
The Reduction 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.
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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 -
SC&A Presentation: SC&A’s Review of NIOSH’s SEC-00253 Petition Evaluation Report for the Reduction Pilot Plant, Huntington, WV [452 KB (16 pages)]
Presentation at the February 17, 2022, Teleconference Meeting of the Uranium Refining Atomic Weapons Employers (AWEs) Work Group -
NIOSH/DCAS Presentation: SEC-00253 – Reduction Pilot Plant [1.1 MB (10 pages)]
Presentation at the February 17, 2022, Teleconference Meeting of the Uranium Refining Atomic Weapons Employers (AWEs) Work Group -
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
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NIOSH/DCAS: SEC-00253 – Reduction Pilot Plant [590 KB (34 pages)]
Presentation at the August 26-27, 2020, Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health
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.
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DCAS-PER-033 Rev-0: Reduction Pilot Plant TBD Revision [112 KB (3 pages)]
December 9, 2011About this Document: Determines affect of revising the Reduction Pilot Plant TBD on previously completed claims.
Summary: Several changes in the Dose Reconstruction methodology occurred in the revision to the TBD. Most changes reflect a decrease in the estimated dose. However, the estimate of internal dose increased from 1956 through 1963 and for 1978 and 1979. The inhalation estimate for operators went from approximately 3.83 pCi/day (1400 pCi/yr) to 44 pCi/day. The original intake was the geometric mean of a lognormal distribution with a geometric standard deviation of 4.3. The new estimate is a single bounding value.
While the internal dose estimate increased, other exposure pathways decreased. Due to the nature of some of the changes, the magnitude of the effect on individual dose estimates will vary from claim to claim.
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 (TBD)
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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.M
Public Comments on Reduction Pilot Plant Documents
How to Submit Comments
Comments on Reduction 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 (074) on all comments.
Comments Received
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No discussion papers have been submitted on Reduction Pilot Plant at this time.
Document Archive for Red Pilot Plant
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Basis for Development of an Exposure Matrix for Huntington Pilot Plant
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Revised January 16, 2004 [410 KB (17 pages)]Revision Includes: Revision resolves issue of exposure to electrons and make document applicable to skin cancers.
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Technical Basis Document for Huntington Pilot Plant
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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”
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