RECA was reinstated and expanded, and the expansion means that now all of Utah is included as an affected area, in addition ...

Downwinders in all of Utah, New Mexico and Idaho would now be eligible for payments. Coverage would also be widened in Arizona to include all of Coconino, Yavapai, Navajo, Apache, Gila, and Mohave ...

In 2021, alongside Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, and Utah's Republican Rep. Burgess Owens, the senators introduced a bill that would extend RECA for another 19 years and include all of ...

Having lived in Utah her whole life, Dickson is a downwinder herself. "I grew up in a neighborhood in Salt Lake City where we counted 54 people who had cancer, tumors and autoimmune disorders ...

For years, RECA provided payments to people diagnosed with certain cancers if they lived in a handful of counties in Utah, Arizona and Nevada near above-ground nuclear testing sites in the 1950s ...

And in the year since, downwinders have been lobbying for some kind of action, with support from Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a number of members of Congress and dozens of advocacy groups.

It also ups compensation to a uniform $100,000. Downwinders in all of Utah, New Mexico, Idaho and Mohave County, Arizona, are now included.

If Utah’s members of Congress want to be worth the cost of maintaining them, they should work long and hard to extend and expand RECA into the future. Utahns should tell them so.

Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV Stream now with the PBS app. In the 1950s and '60s, the U.S. government conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert. The resulting fallout ...

41 Utah lawmakers ask Congress to restart compensation for downwinders By Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL.com | Posted - April 5, 2025 at 7:03 p.m.

Here are the RECA highlights, found in the final pages of the Senate’s 887-page bill: Downwinders in all of Utah, New Mexico and Idaho would now be eligible for payments.