42 U.S.C. § 7385c — Exclusivity of remedy against the United States and against contractors and subcontractors

the United States;

any instrumentality of the United States;

a contractor that contracted with the Department of Energy^* to provide management and operation, management and integration, or environmental remediation of a Department of Energy facility^* (in its capacity as a contractor);

a subcontractor that provided services, including construction, at a Department of Energy facility (in its capacity as a subcontractor); and

an employee, agent, or assign of an entity specified in subparagraphs (A) through (D);

the covered employee;

the covered employee’s legal representative, spouse, dependents, survivors, and next of kin; and

any other person, including any third party as to whom the covered employee, or the covered employee’s legal representative, spouse, dependents, survivors, or next of kin, has a cause of action relating to the cancer (including a specified cancer), chronic silicosis, covered beryllium illness, or death, otherwise entitled to recover damages from the United States, the instrumentality, the contractor, the subcontractor, or the employee, agent, or assign of one of them,