SCHEDULE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENTIALS PAID FOR EXPOSURE TO VARIOUS DEGREES OF HAZARDS, PHYSICAL HARDSHIPS, AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF AN UNUSUAL NATURE

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SCHEDULE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFERENTIALS PAID
FOR EXPOSURE TO VARIOUS DEGREES OF HAZARDS,
PHYSICAL HARDSHIPS, AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF AN
UNUSUAL NATURE
PART I. PAYMENT FOR ACTUAL EXPOSURE
1. Flying? 100% - Participating in flights under one or more types of the
following conditions:
a. Test flights of a new or repaired plane or modified plane when the
repair or modification may affect the flight characteristics of the
plane;
b. Flights for test performance of plane under adverse conditions such
as in low altitude or severe weather conditions, maximum load limits,
or overload;
c. Test missions for the collection of measurement data where two or
more aircraft are involved and flight procedures require formation
flying and/or rendezvous at various altitudes and aspect angles;
d. Flights deliberately undertaken in extreme weather conditions such
as flying into a hurricane to secure weather data;
e. Flights to deliver aircraft which have been prepared for one-time
flight without being test flown prior to delivery flight;
f. Flights for pilot proficiency training in aircraft new to the pilot
under simulated emergency conditions which parallel conditions en-
countered in performing flight tests;
g. Low-level flights in small aircraft including helicopters at altitude
of 50D feet and under in daylight and 1,000 feet and under at night
when the flights are over mountainous terrain, or in fixed-wing
aircraft involving maneuvering at the heights and times specified
above, or in helicopters maneuvering and hovering over water at
altitudes of less than 500 feet;
h. Low-level flights in an aircraft flying at altitudes of 200 feet and
under while conducting wildlife surveys and law enforcement activities,
animal depredation abatement and making agricultural applications,
and conducting or facilitating search and rescue operations; flights
in helicopters at low levels involving line inspection, maintenance,
erection, or salvage operations.
i. Flights involving launch or recovery aboard an aircraft carrier.
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j. Reduced gravity flight testing in an aircraft flying a parabolic
flight path and providing a testing environment ranging from
weightlessness up through 2 gravity conditions.
2. Work at extreme heights. 50% - Working at heights 100 feet or more
above the ground, deck, floor or roof, or from the bottom of a tank
or pit on such open structures as towers, girders, smokestacks and
similar structures:
a. If the footing is unsure or the structure is unstable; or
b. If safe scaffolding, enclosed ladders or other similar protective
facilities are not adequate (for example, working from a swinging
stage, boatswain chair, or a similar support); or
c. If adverse conditions such as darkness, steady rain, high wind,
icing, lightning, or similar environmental factors render working
at such height(s) hazardous.
3. High work.. 25%
a. Working on any structure at least 100 feet above the ground, deck,
floor or roof, or from the bottom of a tank or pit;
b. Working at a lesser height:
(1) If the footing is unsure or the structure is unstable; or
(2) If safe scaffolding, enclosed ladders or other similar pro-
tective facilities are not adequate (for example, working
from a swinging stage, boatswain chair, a similar support); or
(3) If adverse conditions such as darkness, steady rain, high wind,
icing, lightning or similar environmental factors render working
at such height(s) hazardous.
4. Floating tagets, 15% - Servicing equipment on board a target ship
or barge in which the employee is required to board or leave the
target vessel by small boat or helicopter.
5. Dirty work. 4% - Performing work which subjects the employee to soil
of body or clothing:
a. Beyond that normally to be expected in performing the duties of the
classification; and
b. Where the condition is not adequately alleviated by the mechanical
equipment or protective devices being used, or which are readily
available or when such devices are not feasible for use due to health
considerations (excessive temperature, asthmatic conditions, etc.), or
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c. When the use of mechanical equipment, or protective devices, or pro-
tective clothing results in an unusual degree of discomfort.
Example:
Employees engaged in cleaning fly ash and other debris from fire pits of
large incinerators where there is soil of clothing beyond normal duty
requirements including discomfort when using dust catching respirator and
total protective body coverings.
6. Cold work. 4% - Working in cold storage or other climate-controlled
areas where the employee is subjected to temperatures at or below
freezing (32 degrees Fahrenheit) where such exposure is not practically
eliminated by the mechanical equipment of protective devices being used.
7. Hot work. 4% - Working in confined spaces wherein the employee is sub-
jected to temperatures in excess of 110 degrees Fahrenheit where such
exposure is not practically eliminated by the mechanical equipment or
protective devices being used.
8. Welding, cutting or burning in confined spaces. 6% - Welding, cutting or
burning within a confined space which necessitates working in a horizontal
or nearly horizontal position, under conditions requiring egress of at
least 14 feet over and through obstructions including:
a. access openings and baffles having dimensions which greatly restrict
movements, and
b. irregular inner surfaces of the structure or structural components.
9. Welding preheated metals. 4% - Welding various metals or performing an
integral part of the welding process when the employee must work in
confined spaces in which large sections of metal have been preheated
to 150 degrees Fahrenheit or more, and the discomfort is not alleviated
by protective devices or other means, or discomforting protective equipment
must be worn.
10. Micro-soldering or wire welding and assembly. 4% - Working with binocular-
type microscopes under conditions which severely restrict the movement of
the employee and impose a strain on the eyes, in the soldering or wire
welding and assembly of miniature electronic components.
11. Exposure to hazardous weather or terrain. 25% ~ Exposure to dangerous con-
ditions cf terrain, temperature and/or wind velocity, while working or
traveling, when such exposure introduces risk of significant injury or
death to employees; such as the following:
Examples:
--Working on cliffs, narrow ledges, or steep mountainous slopes, with or
without mechanical work equipment, where a loss of footing would result
in serious injury or death.
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--Working in areas where there is a danger of rock falls or avalanches.
--Traveling over secondary or unimproved roads to isolated mountaintop
installations at night, or under adverse weather conditions (snow, rain
or fog) which limits visibility to less than 100 feet, when there is
danger of rock, mud, or snowslides.
--Traveling in the wintertime, either on foot or by vehicle, over secon-
dary or unimproved roads or snowtrails, in sparsely settled or isolated
areas to isolated installations when there is danger of avalanches, or
during "whiteout" phenomenon which limits visibility to less than 10 feet.
--Working or traveling in sparsely settled or isolated areas with ex-
posure to temperatures and/or wind velocity shown to be of considerable
or very great danger, and shelter (other than temporary shelter) or
assistance is not readily available.
--Snowplowing or snow and ice removal on primary, secondary or other
class of roads, when (a) there is danger of avalanche or (b) there is
danger of missing the road and falling down steep mountainous slopes,
because of lack of snowstakes, "whiteout" conditions, or sloping icepack
covering the snow.
12. Unshored work. 25% - Working in excavation areas before the installation
of proper shoring or other securing barriers, or in catastrophe areas,
where there is a possibility of cave-in, building collapse or falling
debris when such exposures introduce risk of significant injury or death
to employees, such as the following:
Examples:
--Working adjacent to the walls of an unshored excavation at depths
greater than six feet (except when the full depth of the excavation is
in stable solid rock, hard slag, or hard shale, or the walls have been
graded to the angle of repose, that is, where the danger of slides is
practically eliminated), when work is performed at a distance from the
wall which is less than the height of the wall.
--Working within or immediately adjacent to a building or structure which
has-been severely damaged by earthquake, fire, tornado or similar cause.
--Working underground in the construction and/or inspection of tunnels
and shafts before the necessary lining of the passageway has been in-
stalled.
--Duty underground in abandoned mines where lining of tunnels or shafts
is in a deteriorated condition.
13. Ground work beneath hovering helicopter. 15% - Participating in operations
to attach or detach external load to helicopter hovering just overhead.
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14. Hazardous boarding or leaving of surface craft. 15% - Boarding or
leaving vessels or transferring equipment to or from a surface craft
under adverse conditions of foul weather, ice, or night when sea state
is high (three feet and above), and deck conditions and/or wind velocity
in relation to the size of the craft introduce unusual risks to employees.
Examples:
--Boardiing or leaving vessels at sea.
--Boarding or leaving, or transferring equipment between small boats or
rafts and steep, rocky, or coral-surrounded shorelines.
--Transferring equipment between a small boat and a rudimentary dock by
improvised or temporary facility such as an unfastened plank leading
from boat to dock.
--Boarding or leaving, or transferring equipment from or to ice covered
floats, rafts, or similar structures when there is danger of capsizing
due to the added weight of the ice.
15. Cargo handlin during lightering operations. 8% - Off-loading of cargo
and supplies from surface ships to Landing Craft-Medium (LCM) boats when
swells or wave action are sufficiently severe as to cause sudden listing
or pitching of the deck surface or shifting or falling of equipment, cargo,
or supplies which could subject the employee to falls, crushing, ejection
into the water or injury by swinging cargo hooks.
16. _Duty aboard surface craft. 15% - Duty aboard a surface craft when the
deck conditions or sea state and wind velocity in relation to the size
of the craft introduces the risk of significant injury or death to employees.
Examples:
--Participating as a member of a water search and rescue team in adverse
weather conditions when winds are blowing at 35 m.p.h. (classified as
gale winds) or in water search and rescue operations at night.
--Participating as a member of a weather projects team when work is
performed under adverse weather conditions, when winds are blowing at
35 m.p.h,,, and/or when seas are in excess of 14 feet, or when working on
outside decks when decks are slick and icy when swells are in excess of
3 feet.
--Transferring from a ship to another ship via a chair harness hanging
from a highline between the ships when both vessels are under way.
--Duty performed on floating platforms, camels, or rafts, using tools
equipment or materials associated with ship repair or construction
activitiE!s, where swells or wave action are sufficiently severe to cause
sudden listing or pitching of the deck surface or dislodgement of equip-
ment which could subject the employee to falls, crushing, or ejection into
the water.
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17. Fibrous Glass Work. 6% - Working with or in close proximity to fibrous
glass material which results in exposure of the skin, eyes or respiratory
system to irritating fibrous glass particles or-slivers where exposure is
not practically eliminated by the mechanical equipment or protective de-
vices being used.
18. High Voltage Electrical Energy. 50% - Working on energized electrical
lines rated at 4160 volts or more which are suspended from utility poles
or towers, when adverse weather conditions such as steady rain, high winds,
icing, lightning, or similar environmental factors make the work unusually
hazardous.
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PART II. PAYMENT ON BASIS OF HOURS IN PAY STATUS
1. Duty aboard submerged vessel. 50% - Duty aboard a submarine or other
vessel, such as a deep-research vehicle while submerged.
2. Explosives and incendiary material--high degree hazard. 8% - Working
with or in close proximity to explosives and incendiary material which
involves potential personal. injury such as permanent or temporary,
partial or complete loss of sight or hearing, partial or complete loss
of any or all extremities; other partial or total disabilities or equal
severity; and/or loss of life resulting from work situations wherein
protective devices and/or safety measures either do not exist or have
been developed but have not practically eliminated the potential for
such personal injury. Normally, such work situations would result in
extensive property damage requiring complete replacement of equipment
and rebuilding of the damaged area; and could result in personal injury
to adjacent employees.
Examples:
Working with, or in close proximity to operations involved in research,
testing, manufacturing, inspection, renovation, maintenance and dis-
posal, such as:
--Screening, blending, drying, mixing, and pressing of sensitive ex-
plosives and pyrotechnic compositions such as lead azide, black powder
and photoflash powder.
--Manufacture and distribution of raw nitroglycerine.
--Nitration, neutralization, crystallization, purification, screening
and drying of high explosives.
--Manufacture of propellants, high explosives and incendiary materials.
--Melting, cast loading, pellet loading, drilling, and thread cleaning
of high explosives.
--Manufacture of primary or initiating explosives such as lead azide.
--Manufacture of primer or detonator mix.
--Loading and assembling high-energy output flare pellets.
--All dry-house activities involving propellants or explosives.
--Demilitarization, modification, renovation, demolition, and main-
tenance operations on sensitive explosives and incendiary materials.
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--All operations involving fire fighting on an artillery range or
at an ammunition manufacturing plant or storage area, including heavy
duty equipment operators, truck drivers, etc.
--All operations involving regrading and cleaning of artillery ranges.
--At-sea shock and vibration tests. Arming explosive charges and/or
working with, or in close proximity to, explosive-armed charges in
connection with at-sea shock and vibration tests of naval vessels,
machinery, equipment and supplies.
--Handling or engaging in destruction operations on an armed (or po-
tertially armed) warhead.
Loading, testing, packing, or transporting of igniters and rocket motors
and any work in the immediate area of such items where the high energy
power sources are present.
Packing, handling, transporting, or working in close proximity to explosive
powered devices. (Where separated from power source use power potential
for damage and loss of life to determine if high degree or low degree.)
Assembly or packing of common fireworks wherein more than a three (3)
foot cube of incendiary materials is involved, and the deflagration po-
tential is high.
3. Explosives and incendiary material -- low-degree hazard. 4% - Working with
or in close proximity to explosives and incendiary material which in-
volves potential injury such as laceration of hands, face, or arms of the
employee engaged in the operation and possible adjacent employees; minor
irritation of the skin; minor burns and the like; minimal damage to imme-
diate or adjacent work area or equipment being used and wherein protective
devices and/or safety measures have not practically eliminated the poten-
tial for such injury.
Examples:
--All operations involving loading, unloading, storage and hauling of ex-
plosive and incendiary ordnance material other than small arms ammuni-
tion. (Distribution of raw nitroglycerine is covered under high degree
hazard--see category 2 above.)
--Duties such as weighing, scooping, consolidating and crimping operations
incident to the manufacture of stab, percussion, and low energy electric
detonators (initiators) utilizing sensitive primary explosives compo-
sitions where initiation would be kept to a low order of propagation due
to the limited amounts permitted to be present or handled during the
operations.
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--Load, assembly and packing of primers, fuses, propellant charges, lead
cups, boosters, and time-train rings.
--Weighing, scooping, loading in bags and sewing of ignitor charges and
propellant zone charges.
--Loading, assembly, and packing of hand-held signals, smoke signals,
and colored marker signals.
--Proof-testing weapons with a known overload of powder or charges.
--Arming/disarming or the installation/removal of any squib, explosive
device, or component thereof, connected to or part of a solid propulsion
system, including work situations involving removal, inspection, test and
installation of aerospace vehicle egress and jettison systems and other
cartridge actuated devices and rocket assisted systems or components
thereof, when accidental or inadvertent operation of the system or a
component might occur.
--Drivers or other workers handling cargo at stops or destinations with
work calling for close proximity to packed part load explosives or
incendiaries.
--Assembly or packing of common fireworks wherein less than a three (3)
foot cube of incendiary materials is in the immediate area, and the de-
flagration potential is low.
4. Poisons (toxic chemicals)--high degree hazard. 8% - Working with or in
close proximity to poisons (toxic chemicals), other than tear gas or
similar irritants, which involves potential serious personal injury such
as permanent or temporary, partial or complete loss of faculties and/or
loss of life including exposure of an unusual degree of toxic chemicals,
dust, or fumes of equal toxicity generated in work situations by pro-
cesses required to perform work assignments wherein protective devices
and/or safety measures have been developed but have not practically
eliminated the potential for such personal injury.
Examples:
--Operating various types of chemical engineering equipment in a re-
stricted area such as reactors, filters, stripping units, fractioning
columns, blenders, mixers, pumps, and the like utilized in the develop-
ment, manufacturing, and processing of toxic or experimental chemical
warfare agents.
--Demilitarizing and neutralizing toxic chemical munitions and chemical
agents.
--Handling or working with toxic chemicals in restricted areas during
production operations.
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--Preparing analytical reagents, carrying out colorimetric and photo-
metric techniques, injecting laboratory animals with compounds having
toxic, incapacitating or other effects.
--Recording analytical and biological tests results where subject to
above types of exposure.
--Visually examining chemical agents to determine conditions of detecting
leaks in storage containers.
--Transferring chemical agents between containers.
--Salvaging and disposing of chemical agents.
--Handling and storing toxic chemical agents including monitoring of areas
to detect, presence of vapor or liquid chemical agents; examining of
material for signs of leakage or deteriorated material; decontaminating
equipment. and work sites; work relating to disposal of deteriorated
material.
5. Poisons (toxic chemicals) - low degree hazard. 4% - Working with or in
close proxmity to poisons (toxic chemicals other than tear gas or similar
irritating substances) in situations for which the nature of the work
does not require the individual to be in a direct contact with, or ex-
posure to, the more toxic agents as in the case with the work described
under high hazard for this class of hazardous agents and wherein pro-
tective devices and/or safety measures have not practically eliminated
the potential for personal injury.
Examples:
--Handling for shipping, marking, labeling, hauling and storing loaded
containers of toxic chemical agents that have been monitored.
--Packaging, and repacking from shipping containers, including change in
size of container involving pouring or other handling with protective
clothing, mask, gloves, etc., the following materials:
Carbon Tetrachloride Nitric Acid
Chlordane (Powder or Liquid) Sulphuric Acid:
Cyanides (Dust, Solid or Liquid) Trichlorethane
Chloroform Trichlorethylene
Lindane
Malathion
6. Micro-organisms-high degree hazard. 8% - Working with or in close proximity
to micro-organisms which involves potential personal injury such as death,
or temporary, partial, or complete loss of faculties or ability to work
due to acute, prolonged, or chronic disease. These are work situations
wherein the use of safety devices and equipment, medical prophylactic
procedures such as vaccines and antiserums and other safety measures do
not exist or have been developed but have not practically eliminated the
potential for such personal injury.
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Examples-
--Direct contact with primary containers of organisms pathogenic for man
such as culture flasks, culture test tubes, hypodermic syringes and
similar instruments, and biopsy and autopsy material. Operating or
maintaining equipment in biological experimentation or production.
--Cultivating virulent organisms on artificial media, including
embryonated hen's eggs and tissue cultures where innoculation or
harvesting of living organisms is involved for production of vaccines,
toxides, etc., or for sources of material for research investigations
such as antigenic analysis and chemical analysis.
7. Micro-organisms -- low degree hazard. 4% - Working with or in close
proximity to micro-organisms in situations for which the nature of the
work does not require the individual to be in direct contact with
primary containers of organisms pathogenic for man, such as culture
flasks, culture test tubes, hypodermic syringes and similar instruments,
and biopsy and autopsy material and wherein the use of safety devices
and equipment and other safety measures have not practically eliminated
the potential for personal injury.
8. Pressure chamber and centrifugal stress. 8% - Exposure in pressure
chambers which subjects employee to physical stresses or where there is
potential danger to participants by reason of equipment failure or
reaction to the test conditions; or exposure which subjects an employee
to a high degree of centrifugal force which causes an unusual degree of
discomfort.
Examples:
--Participating as a subject in diving research tests which seek to
establish limits for safer pressure profiles by working in a pressure
chamber simulating diving or, as an observer to the test or as a
technician assembling underwater mock-up components for the test, when
the observer or technician is exposed to high pressure gas piping
systems, gas cylinders, and pumping devices which are susceptible to
explosive ruptures.
--Participating in altitude chamber studies ranging from 18,000 to
150,000 feet either as subject or as observer exposed to the same
conditions as the subject.
--Participating as subject in centrifuge studies involving elevated
G forces above the level of five G's whether or not at reduced atmospheric
pressure.
--Participating as a subject in a rotational flight simulator in studies
involving continuous rotation in one axis through 3600 at rotation rates
greater than 15 r.p.m. for periods exceeding three minutes.
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9. Work in fuel storage tanks. 8% - When inspecting, cleaning, or repairing
fuel storage tanks where there is no ready access to an exit, under con-
ditions requiring a breathing apparatus because all or part of the
oxygen in the atmosphere has been displaced by toxic vapors or gas, and
failure of the breathing apparatus would result in serious injury or
death within the time required to leave the tank.
10. Firefighting. Participating or assisting in firefighting operations on
the immediate fire scene and in direct exposure to the hazards inherent
in containing or extinguishing fires.
High Degree. 25% - Fighting forest and range fires on the fireline.
Low Degree. 8% - All other firefighting.
11. Experimental landing/recovery equipment tests. 8%
--Participating in tests of experimental or prototype landing and recovery
equipment where personnel are required to serve as test subjects in
spacecraft being dropped into the sea or laboratory tanks.
12. Land impact or pad abort of space vehicle. 8% - Actual participation in
dearming and safing explosive ordnance, toxic propellant, and high-pressure
vessels on vehicles that have land impacted or on vehicles on the launch
pad that have reached a point in the countdown where no remote means are
available for returning the vehicle to a safe condition.
13. Mass explosives and/or incendiary material. 4% - Working within a controlled
danger area in, on, or around wharves, transfer areas, or temporary
holding areas in a transshipment facility when explosives are in the
process of being shifted to or from a conveyance.
Such an area shall include land and sea areas within which it has been
determined that personnel are subject to an unusual degree of exposure
or liability to serious injury or death from potential explosive effect.
A transshipment facility for this purpose is a port or sea terminal
established for the marshalling or temporary assembly of explosives
prior to shipment where amounts in excess of 250,000 pounds net explo-
sive weight (new) are present on a regular or recurring basis.
14. Participating in missile liquid propulsion or solid propulsion situa-
tions. 8% - Participating in research and development, or preoperational
test and evaluation situations involving missile liquid or solid propulsion
systems where mechanical, or other equipment malfunction, or accidental
combination of certain fuels and/or chemicals, or transient voltage and
current buildup on or within the system when the system is in a "go" con-
dition on the test stand, or sled, can result in explosion, fire, pre-
mature ignition or firing.
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Examples:
--Test stand or track tests, when adequate protective devices and/or
safety measures either do not exist or have been developed but have not
practically eliminated the potential for personal injury, under any of
the following conditions:
a. Tanks are being pressurized above normal servicing pressure.
b. Assembly, disassembly, or repair of contaminated plumbing contain-
ing inhibited red fuming nitric acid and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine
or other hypergolic fuels is required.
Fueling and defueling.
--Hoisting hypergolic liquid fueled systems into, or out of, a test
stand, where the working area is confined, and external plumbing is pre-
sent resulting in a situation where the plumbing may be damaged causing
a leak.
--Tests on foreign missiles where technical data is questionable or not
available.
--Manned test firings of small, close support missiles for which safety
performance data are not yet available.
--Removal of a missile, missile propulsion system or component thereof
from a test stand, fixture, or environmental chamber where there is
reason to believe that the item may be unusually hazardous due to damage
resulting from the test.
15. Asbestos. 8% - Working in an area where airborne concentrations of
asbestos fibers may expose employees to potential illness or injury and
protective devices or safety measures have not practically eliminated
the potential for such personal illness or injury.
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