---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 79.32"
title: "28"
number: "79.32"
heading: "Criteria for eligibility for claims by onsite participants."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/79.32"
---

# §79.32. Criteria for eligibility for claims by onsite participants.


To establish eligibility for compensation under this subpart, a claimant or eligible surviving beneficiary must establish each of the following:

- (a) That the claimant was present onsite at any time during a period of atmospheric nuclear testing;
- (b) That the claimant was a participant during that period in the atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device; and
- (c) That after such participation, the claimant contracted a specified compensable disease as set forth in [§ 79.22(b)](/cfr/28/79.22.md?p=b).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 6(a), 6(i) and 6(j), Pub. L. 101-426, 104 Stat. 920, as amended by secs. 3(c)-(h), Pub. L. 106-245, 114 Stat. 501 and sec. 11007, Pub. L. 107-273, 116 Stat. 1758 (42 U.S.C. 2210 note; 5 U.S.C. 500(b)).

### Source

Source: Order No. 2711-2004, 69 FR 13634, Mar. 23, 2004, unless otherwise noted.