---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 79.52"
title: "28"
number: "79.52"
heading: "Criteria for eligibility for claims by uranium millers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/79.52"
---

# §79.52. Criteria for eligibility for claims by uranium millers.


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

- (a) The claimant was employed as a miller in a specified state;
- (b) The claimant was so employed for at least one year (12 consecutive or cumulative months) during the period beginning on January 1, 1942, and ending on December 31, 1971; and
- (c) The claimant contracted primary lung cancer, a nonmalignant respiratory disease, primary renal cancer, or chronic renal disease (including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury) following at least one year of such employment.

## 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.