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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, August 8, 1993                   TAG: 9308080159
SECTION: HORIZON                    PAGE: D-1   EDITION: METRO 
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THE COST OF EXPOSURE

The Radiation Exposure Act of 1990 created a trust fund to compensate people sickened by radiation, and the survivors of those who died of radiation-caused illness from exposure in the early days of the Atomic Age.

In the first two years after the act was passed, Congress appropriated $200 million to provide compensation to three categories of people:

People living in southern Utah and Nevada and northern Arizona exposed to radioactive fallout from atmospheric testing who developed any of 13 types of cancer. They are eligible for payments of $50,000.

Participants in nuclear tests at the test site in Nevada who developed the same types of cancer are eligible for payments of $75,000.

Uranium miners, both Indian and non-Indian, in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming who developed lung cancer or other respiratory diseases as a result of their exposure to radiation in uranium mines between 1947 and 1971. They are due $100,000.

- The Associated Press 


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