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Radiation Exposure Compensation

The program's purpose is to make partial restitution to certain individuals harmed by the government's nuclear weapons testing program. To date, 25,237 claims have been filed; more than $1 billion has been awarded to 16,237 claimants.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has developed ambitious annual and long-term goals focusing on outcomes that meaningfully reflect the purpose of the program. However, the program must ensure that its four partners, the Departments of Energy, Defense, Veterans Affairs and Labor, are also committed to achieving these annual and long-term goals.
  • The program's statutory scheme contains flaws with respect to some of its claimant categories. Although the statute is founded on the scientifically-based association between exposure and illness for occupationally exposed uranium workers, the same is not true for other claimant categories.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Ensuring program partners are expressly committed to achieving the stated annual and long-term performance goals of the program.
  • Developing a plan to tie resources to specific performance measures.
  • Monitoring the activities of the National Academy of Sciences and like organizations that are studying the Act's eligibility criteria.

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