What happens if NIOSH uncovers new relevant information while conducting research for an SEC petition?
The evaluation of a qualified petition includes in-depth research on the available monitoring records and worker data to determine if NIOSH has the information needed to reconstruct radiation doses with sufficient accuracy and if it does not, whether the radiation doses may have endangered the health of the class of workers defined in the petition. In this process, we may uncover new information that confirms, refutes, or supplements the information in the petition and the existing information in NIOSH’s database. This new information may impact the SEC petition, and/or a related Site Profile or Technical Basis Document. With NIOSH’s commitment and the requirement in the dose reconstruction rule to apply the best available science in dose reconstructions, when relevant information becomes available, we will revise technical documents and evaluate whether that new information will impact the compensability of a completed dose reconstruction with a probability of causation less than 50%.
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