Uranium Miners Compensation Act

Summary

Uranium Miners' Compensation Act - Title I: Compensation Payments - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to pay supplemental benefits to uranium miners or their surviving dependents for total disability or death from lung cancer resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation from such mine employment between April 1, 1948, and five years after the date of enactment of this Act. Imposes limitations on the amount of such supplemental payments. Title II: Financial Assistance to States - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to States for research and planning studies designed to improve State workmen's compensation and occupational disease programs as they relate to compensation for ionizing radiation injuries in uranium mine employment. Establishes criteria for approval of State plans. Requires that no State plan be disapproved without reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Title III: Miscellaneous - Stipulates that compensation benefits authorized under this Act shall be paid from the Employees' Compensation Fund established under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act. Specifies time periods for the filing of claims for benefits under this Act.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 23 March 1977

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