A Utah health clinic will host an informational public meeting Saturday in Idaho Falls about a recently reinstated federal program that compensates people who became sick after nuclear weapons testing.

Under Congress’s reauthorization of the program through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, all of Utah and Idaho are considered affected areas, the Utah News Dispatch reported. That means people who have certain cancers and lived in Idaho for 12 months between 1951 to 1962 are likely eligible for compensation.

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