[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) and the Department of Veterans Affairs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

VA to begin tracking Lejeune water claims

HOPE HODGE
ENC Today (NC)
December 9, 2010

Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs told members of a 
community assistance panel addressing issues surrounding historical 
water contamination at Camp Lejeune that related disability claims would 
soon be processed at a central location.

Brad Flohr, with the Veterans Benefits Administration Compensation and 
Pension Service Department, told the group on Thursday that all the 
Lejeune water claims would be sent to the VA center in Louisville, Ky., 
as a way to track the cases and keep the procedure for handling them 
consistent.

Lejeune veterans and former residents who lived aboard the base between 
the 1950s and 1980s and attribute ailments like male breast cancer and 
non-Hodgkins lymphoma to chemical contaminants in the water have 
advocated for a VA presumptive policy on water cases, similar to that 
governing exposure to the Vietnam-era chemical Agent Orange.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.enctoday.com/news/water-85677-jdn-lejeune-claims.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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