S.Amdt. 4248

SA 4248. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DEFINITION OF MEMBER OF THE SPECIAL EXPOSURE COHORT.

Section 3621(14) of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(D) The employee--

“(i) was so employed by the Department of Energy, or a contractor or subcontractor of that Department, before 1986 on--

“(I) Enewetak Atoll;

“(II) Bikini Atoll;

“(III) Rongelap Atoll; or

“(IV) Utrik Atoll;

“(ii) was exposed to ionizing radiation in the performance of a duty of the employee; and

“(iii) during the time the employee was so employed, was a citizen of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.”.