---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7385b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7385b"
heading: "Payment in full settlement of claims"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7385b"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program"
  - "Part C — Treatment, Coordination, and Forfeiture of Compensation and Benefits"
---

# §7385b. Payment in full settlement of claims


Except as provided in part E, the acceptance by an individual of payment of compensation under part B with respect to a covered employee shall be in full satisfaction of all claims of or on behalf of that individual against the United States, against a Department of Energy contractor or subcontractor, beryllium vendor, or atomic weapons employer, or against any person with respect to that person’s performance of a contract with the United States, that arise out of an exposure referred to in [section 7385 of this title](/usc/42/7385.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3643], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–509; Pub. L. 108–375, div. C, title XXXI, § 3162(c), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2186.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–375 substituted “Except as provided in part E, the acceptance” for “The acceptance”.