DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TO CONGRESSMAN BISHOP: GRUMMAN WORKERS WERE NOT NOTIFIED OF BENEFITS

        "...it is unlikely that Northrop-Grumman informed it's employees about EEOICPA."
                                                                      Glenn Podonsky, DOE

In a recent article published by Freelance Investigations, it was reported that on March 24, 2010 a letter was sent from Congressman Timothy Bishop to the Department of Labor on behalf of one of his constituents; Dr. Carmine Vasile. 

Dr. Vasile had expressed outrage and concern that his former employer, Northrop-Grumman, a sub-contractor of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), never notified him and other employees that they were eligible for medical and financial benefits under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).

In a response letter to Congressman Bishop from Glenn S. Podonsky, Chief Health, Safety and Security Officer for the Office of Health, Safety and Security, Dated June 4, 2010 Mr. Podonsky stated:

“On May 24, 2010, BNL informed us that in the past 18 years BNL has done very little business with Northrop-Grumman; perhaps only three relatively small contracts.  Therefore it is unlikely that Northrop-Grumman  informed it’s employees about EEOICPA.”

A simple Google search using Northrop-Grumman/BNL DOE Contracts ----however, yielded many projects between the two facilities.

For example:

BNL-72167-2004-CP

Successful Partnership Between Brookhaven

National Laboratory and Northrop Grumman

Corp. for Construction of RHIC

Superconducting Magnets+

Doug Fisher*, Mike Anerella, and Peter Wanderer

And also:

Advanced Energy Systems, Inc.File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View

by EB Accelerators

BNL. Most recently, AES was the only US company to manufacture a 5-cell, 700 MHz ... The clean room will see its first use in support of a DOE contract to design , fabricate, ... Northrop Grumman Corp., and state-of–the-art space-based ...

epaper.kek.jp/p01/EXHIBIT/AESINFO.PDF

And also:

US Department of Energy Photovoltaic Energy Program Contract ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat

by T Surek - 2001 - Related articles

DOE/GO-102001-1198. FY 2000 Photovoltaic Energy Program Contract Summary ...... project with Dr. Godfrey Augustine of the Northrop Grumman Science and Technology ...... Approach/Background: The BNL Center conducts the following types of ...

www.nrel.gov/docs/fy01osti/29124.pdf - Similar

And…

Design of a harmonic generation FEL experiment at BNL - ElsevierThe harmonic generation experiment is proposed for the BNL accelerator test facility (ATF) ..... This work is performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76-CH0016 and the Grumman Corp. ...

linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0168-9002(92)91052-B

In fact there were 11,000 responses in .028 seconds for the Google search Grumman/BNL D.O.E. Contracts.

Today, Freelance Investigations asked Peter Genzer, the media spokesperson for Brookhaven National Laboratory why BNL wrote to the Department of Energy that they could only identify 3 small contracts with Grumman.  Mr. Genzer had not seen the Bishop letter so it was E-Mailed to him and he sent this reply:

Brookhaven National Laboratory's retention policy is to keep subcontractor procurement records for a maximum of six-and-a-half years after completion before they are destroyed. According to our contracts and procurement staff, our existing records only show a handful of small contracts (none over $1,200) with Northrop Grumman. These date back to 2004, and were for analysis of biodiesel, oil, and sulphur samples. We no longer have records of contracts that may have existed prior to the early 2000s.

                                                                                           Peter Genzer/Media Liason for BNL