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GAO-11-243R 1 (2010-12-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanvp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~G A 0 Ao tabillty I integrity I Rehalblity United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 December 3, 2010 The Honorable Frank Pallone, Jr. Chairman Subcommittee on Health Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives The Honorable Eliot L. Engel House of Representatives The Honorable Carolyn B. Maloney House of Representatives The Honorable Jerrold Nadler House of Representatives The Honorable Anthony D. Weiner House of Representatives Subject: September 11: World Trade Center Health Programs Business Process Center Proposal and Subsequent Data Collection From the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) through fiscal year 2010, approximately $475 million in federal funds was made available for screening, monitoring, or treating responders' for illnesses and conditions-such as asthma and depression-related to the WTC disaster.' Within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) awards funds to and oversees the programs that provide screening, monitoring, and treatment services for responders to the WTC attack. The two largest programs, which we refer to here as the WTC health programs, are the New York City Fire Department's (FDNY) WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program, and the 'In this report, responders refers to anyone involved in rescue, recovery, or cleanup activities at or near the vicinity of the WTC or the Staten Island site, the landfill that is the off-site location of the WTC recovery operation. Responders included New York City Fire Department (FDNY) personnel, federal government personnel, and other government and private-sector workers and volunteers from New York and elsewhere. 2See Congressional Research Service, Comparison of the Current World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the World Trade Center Health Program Proposed by Title I of H.R. 84 7, R41292 (Washington D.C.: Oct. 15, 2010), and GAO, September 11: HHS Needs to Develop a Plan That Incorporates Lessons from the Responder Health Programs, GAO-08-610 (Washington, D.C.: May 30, 2008). GAO-11-243R WTC Health Programs

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