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

# §7385g. Attorney fees

- (a) **General rule—** Notwithstanding any contract, the representative of an individual may not receive, for services rendered in connection with the claim of an individual for payment of lump-sum compensation under part B, more than that percentage specified in [subsection (b)](#b) of a payment made under part B on such claim.
- (b) **Applicable percentage limitations—** The percentage referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) is—
  - (1) 2 percent for the filing of an initial claim for payment of lump-sum compensation; and
  - (2) 10 percent with respect to objections to a recommended decision denying payment of lump-sum compensation.
- (c) **Inapplicability to other services—** This section shall not apply with respect to services rendered that are not in connection with such a claim for payment of lump-sum compensation.
- (d) **Penalty—** Any such representative who violates this section shall be fined not more than $5,000.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3648], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–511; Pub. L. 107–107, div. C, title XXXI, § 3151(a)(6), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1375.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2001—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–107, § 3151(a)(6)(A), inserted “for payment of lump-sum compensation” after “the claim of an individual”.

Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 107–107, § 3151(a)(6)(B), inserted “for payment of lump-sum compensation” after “initial claim”.

Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 107–107, § 3151(a)(6)(C), substituted “with respect to objections to a recommended decision denying payment of lump-sum compensation” for “with respect to any claim with respect to which a representative has made a contract for services before October 30, 2000”.

Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 107–107, § 3151(a)(6)(D), (E), added subsec. (c) and redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d).