ANWAG requests Help from Secretary Perez On September 8, 2014 ANWAG sent a letter to Secretary Perez requesting his help with obtaining information needed to assist EEOICPA claimants and monitor the administration of DEEOIC. DEEOIC requests $3,403.50 to provide ANWAG with Information to help Claimants On August 26, 2014 DEEOIC replied to ANWAG's request for "Copies of all documents the US Department of Energy (DOE) supplied to Department of Labor's (DOL) Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) and/or its Site Exposure Matrix (SEM) Administrator, Paragon Technical Industry, that provided detailed description for use in SEM of job responsibilities for guards, police, security or any other similar labor categories which provided security to the DOE facilities and/or the safeguarding of the materials and processes used to make the nuclear weapons." DEEOIC denied the fee waiver request made by ANWAG based on an old appeal of a request for a fee waiver. ANWAG requests Administrative Review Two Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) petitioners contacted ANWAG about the length of time it is taking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct an Administrative Review of the denial to include those sites in the SEC. ANWAG sent this letter to Secretary Burwell and looks forward to her response. ANWAG featured at the Rocky Flats 25th Anniversary of the Rocky Flats FBI Raid What Do We Know about Rocky Flats Workers' Health Issues, 25 Years Later, Part 1 What Do We Know about Rocky Flats Workers' Health Issues, 25 Years Later, Part 2 What Do We Know about Rocky Flats Workers' Health Issues, 25 Years Later, Part 3 What Do We Know about Rocky Flats Workers' Health Issues, 25 Years Later, Part 4. I do understand that fee waivers can be denied. My problem is twofold. First off, ANWAG is only interested in making sure the program is operating based on Congressional intent. We need those documents to make sure it is. Secondly, DEEOIC base their decision to deny on a 4 or 5 year old decision. They do not consider how much ANWAG has grown since then. I filed a FOIA with EPA for RF and was granted a fee waiver, but EPA made sure I understood the fee waiver only applied to that request. The cost of the search their contractor, Paragon Technical Services, quoted is ridiculous. Normally, DEEOIC charges $40.00/hour to search.