[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "VA takes steps to deal with mounting [Camp] Lejeune [NC] water claims"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

VA takes steps to deal with mounting Lejeune water claims

BARBARA BARRETT
McClatchy Newspapers
July 17, 2012

WASHINGTON - Responding to heightened publicity and an uneven  
smattering of decisions on claims, the Department of Veterans Affairs  
will begin training a specialized cadre of workers this week to  
handle disability claims related to historic water contamination at  
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The agency will consolidate claims at one office in Louisville, Ky.  
Eight employees there will focus on culling, researching and  
adjudicating disability claims related to the contaminated water.

The move is more than bureaucratic; it could prove significant to  
Marine veterans across the country who are suffering from cancers and  
other diseases that they think are related to the poisonous chemicals  
that flowed through Lejeune's water from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/12/20/2217583/va-takes-steps-to- 
deal-with-mounting.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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