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 PUBLIC LAW 106-245-^JULY 10, 2000 114 STAT. 507 "(i) beginning on the date on which the Attorney General makes a request for additional information or documentation under paragraph (2); and "(ii) ending on the date on which the claimant or individual or entity acting on behalf of that claimant submits that information or documentation or informs the Attorney (General that it is not possible to provide that information or that the claimant or individual or entity will not provide that information. "(4) PAYMENT WITHIN 6 WEEKS.— The Attorney General shall ensure that an approved claim is paid not later than 6 weeks after the date on which such claim is approved. "(5) NATIVE AMERICAN coNSiDERATiONS.Any procedures under this subsection shall take into consideration and incorporate, to the fullest extent feasible. Native American law, tradition, and custom with respect to the submission and processing of claims by Native Americans.". (e) REGULATIONS.— (1) IN GENERAL.— Section 6(i) of the Radiation Exposure Deadline. Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) is amended by adding at the end the following: "Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2000, the Attorney General shall issue revised regulations to carry out this Act.". (2) AFFIDAVITS. — 42 USC 2210 (A) IN GENERAL.— The Attorney General shall take such note, action as may be necessary to ensure that the procedures established by the Attorney CJeneral under section 6 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) provide that, in addition to any other material that may be used to substantiate employment history for purposes of determining working level months, an individual filing a claim under those procedures may make such a substantiation by means of an affidavit described in subparagraph (B). (B) AFFIDAVITS.— An affidavit referred to under subparagraph (A) is an affidavit— (i) that meets such requirements as the Attorney General may establish; and (ii) is made by a person other than the individual filing the claim that attests to the employment history of the claimant. (f) LIMITATIONS ON CLAIMS.—Section 8 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) is amended— (1) by inserting "(a) IN GENERAL.— " before "A claim"; and (2) by adding at the end the following: "(b) RESUBMITTAL OF CLAIMS.— After the date of the enactment of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2000, any claimant who has been denied compensation under this Act may resubmit a claim for consideration by the Attorney General in accordance with this Act not more than three times. Any resubmittal made before the date of the enactment of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2000 shall not be applied to the limitation under the preceding sentence.". (g) EXTENSION OF CLAIMS AND FUND. — (1) EXTENSION OF CLAIMS.— Section 8 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) is amended by

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