Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 104 Part 1.djvu/956

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104 STAT. 922 PUBLIC LAW 101-426—OCT. 15, 1990 (C) that part of Arizona that is north of the Grand Canyon and west of the Colorado River; and (2) "specified disease" means leukemia (other than chronic Ijmiphocytic leukemia), provided that initial exposure occurred after the age of 20 and the onset of the disease was between 2 and 30 years of first exposure, and the following diseases, provided onset was at least 5 years after first exposure: multiple myeloma, lymphomas (other than Hodgkin's disease), and primary cancer of: the thyroid (provided initial exposure occurred by the age of 20), female breast (provided initial exposure occurred prior to age 40), esophagus (provided low alcohol consumption and not a heavy smoker), stomach (provided initial exposure occurred before age 30), pharynx (provided not a heavy smoker), small intestine, pancreas (provided not a heavy smoker and low coffee consiunption), bile ducts, gall bladder, or liver (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B is indicate!). State listing. SEC. 5. CLAIMS RELATING TO URANIUM MINING. note^^^^^ (a) EuGiBiLiTY OF INDIVIDUALS,—Any individual who was employed in a uraniiun mine located in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, or Utah at any time during the period beginning on January 1, 1947, and ending on December 31, 1971, and who, in the course of such employment— (I)(A) if a nonsmoker, was exposed to 200 or more working level months of radiation and submits written medical documentation that he or she, after such exposure, developed lung cancer, or (B) if a smoker, was exposed to 300 or more working level months of radiation and cancer incidence occurred before age 45 or was exposed to 500 or more working level months of radiation, regardless of age of cancer incidence, and submits written medical documentation that he or she, after such exposure, developed lung cancer; or (2)(A) if a nonsmoker, was exposed to 200 or more working level months of radiation and submits written medical documentation that he or she, after such exposure, developed a nonmalignant respiratory disease, or (B) if a smoker, was exposed to 300 or more working level months of radiation and the nonmalignant respiratory disease developed before age 45 or was exposed to 500 or more working level months of radiation, r^ardless of age of disease incidence, and submits written medical documentation that he or she, after such exposure, developed a nonmalignant respiratory disease, shall receive $100,000, if— (1) the claim for such payment is filed with the Attorney General by or on behalf of such individual, and (2) the Attorney General determines, in accordance with section 6, that the claim meets the requirements of this Act. Payments under this section may be made only in accordance with section 6. (b) DEFINITIONS. — For purposes of this section— (1) the term "working level month of radiation" means radiation exposure at the level of one working level every work day for a month, or an equivalent exposure over a greater or lesser amount of time;