[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Former Senator Elizabeth Dole calls for Camp Lejeune (NC) vets medical care

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress and Camp Lejeune's water

OPINION BY ELIZABETH DOLE
Charlotte News & Observer (NC)
January 10, 2012

The contamination of Camp Lejeune's water supply, which involves  
several hundred thousand Marines, sailors, their families and  
civilian employees who were posted to the installation from the  
mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, is a sad chapter in the Marine Corps'  
otherwise superlative history.

...

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I fought to  
expose the facts about the Camp Lejeune water contamination and to  
expedite notification to all potential victims. My legislation  
requiring the Pentagon to provide such direct notification through a  
registry was signed into law. The Corps, however, has not utilized  
the registry to directly inform military families about the EPA's  
determination.

The provision of medical care for the people made ill by the  
contaminants in the installation's drinking water must now be  
addressed through the legislative process. The cost of that care may  
eventually be high in terms of dollars. We must, nevertheless, meet  
our nation's ethical and moral responsibilities.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/01/10/1765270/congress-and-camp- 
lejeunes-water.html

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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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