Re: [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, HERBICIDES: Agent Orange Korea regulation

In a message dated 1/29/2011 10:44:56 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, lsiegel@cpeo.org writes:

VA publishes final regs to aid vets exposed to Agent Orange in Korea

Veterans Affairs News Service
Capital Flyer
January 27, 2011

Veterans exposed to herbicides while serving along the demilitarized
zone in Korea will have an easier path to access health care and
benefits under a Department of Veterans Affairs final regulation that
will expand the dates when illnesses caused by herbicide exposure can be
presumed to be related to Agent Orange.

"VA's primary mission is to be an advocate for veterans," Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki said. "With this new regulation, VA
has cleared a path for more veterans who served in the demilitarized
zone in Korea to receive access to our quality health care and
disability benefits for exposure to Agent Orange."

Under the final regulation published Jan. 25 in the Federal Register, VA
officials will presume herbicide exposure for any veteran who served
between April 1, 1968, and Aug. 31, 1971, in a unit determined by VA and
Department of Defense officials to have operated in an area in or near
the Korean DMZ in which herbicides were applied.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capflyer.com/stories/012711/news_28230.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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