[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: Lawmakers call for comprehensive Camp Lejeune (NC) health assessment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawmakers, victims concerned over CDC decision not to overhaul Camp  
Lejeune health assessment

By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press
August 16, 2013

RALEIGH, N.C. - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators and congressmen  
is urging the Centers for Disease Control to complete a new,  
comprehensive report on the health effects of toxic tap water at the  
Camp Lejeune Marine base.

The lawmakers also want the agency to investigate whether people were  
exposed to airborne toxins inside buildings after contaminated wells  
at the North Carolina base were closed in 1985. And they asked the  
agency to look into the feasibility of a “cancer incidence study” for  
Lejeune.

The four senators and two representatives were reacting to news that  
the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, or ATSDR, a  
division of the CDC, intends to issue a less comprehensive report  
than the one it released in 1997. The original public health  
assessment was withdrawn four years ago because of incomplete data.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/lawmakers- 
victims-concerned-over-cdc-decision-not-to-overhaul-camp-lejeune- 
health-assessment/2013/08/16/cbadd2f4-06d3-11e3- 
bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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