02/20/2026
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More than 800 St. Charles County residents have taken steps to apply for compensation through a federal program announced last summer to help people suffering from cancer and other diseases after exposure to radiation from the government’s Cold War nuclear program.
The St Charles County Government has helped more than 450 people get documents including property deeds and voter registration needed to establish residency under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).
Plus the St. Charles City-County Library has helped more than 350 people with RECA questions and research.
In July, RECA was expanded by an act of Congress to include four zip codes in St. Charles County:
- 63367 (Lake Saint Louis)
- 63368 (O’Fallon, Dardenne Prairie)
- 63341 (Defiance)
- 63304 (St. Peters, Weldon Spring, Cottleville)
The four zip codes were chosen to cover people who may have lived, worked or gone to school near the EPA Superfund site in Weldon Spring, where Mallinckrodt Chemical Company refined uranium during the Cold War era.
Learn more about this program, how to apply, get documents and more:
https://sccmo.org/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/2687