Grand Junction Operations Office: Approved for EEOICPA Benefits

This modest facility in Grand Junction, Colorado helped shape America's nuclear history from 1943 to 2001. The processing site served as an early source of uranium for the Manhattan Project which was the classified program that developed the world's first atomic bombs.

After the war ended, the site's importance didn't diminish. Instead, it transformed into the headquarters for America's uranium procurement program where workers handled drums of uranium, ran tests and managed nuclear projects.

The site processed 347 million pounds of uranium concentrates. That's enough to fill 170 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The final shipment in January 1975 closed a chapter but not the book on the site's importance. From 1974 to 1984, the Grand Junction Operations Office pivoted to lead the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) program. This initiative mapped and sampled America's uranium reserves.

As Cold War tensions eased, the site's operations scaled back. The Department of Energy (DOE) transferred property ownership to Riverview Technology Corporation in 2001 but the DOE maintained a presence, leasing portions of the site and overseeing environmental remediation.
 

Approved for EEOICPA Benefits

The Grand Junction Operations Office is an approved facility for The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICPA) and has been designated as a Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) facility. This is a defined category of employees established under EEOICPA. The SEC is comprised of classes of employees who have at least one of the 22 SEC cancers and have worked for a specific period of time at one of the SEC facilities. Claims compensated under the SEC do not have to go through the dose reconstruction process, as is required for other cancer claims covered by EEOICPA.

As of January 2023, Grand Junction Operation Office workers have received over $45 million in EEOICPA settlements. 

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