[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) regulations

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New regulation would allow dependents to claim contaminated water  
health issues

By Adelina Colbert
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
September 24, 2014

The Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to publish two  
regulations today, including one that will allow veterans’ family  
members who lived aboard Camp Lejeune to make claims for health  
issues that may have developed as a result of exposure to  
contaminated water on the installation decades ago.

Within the second regulation, family members of veterans who lived  
aboard Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days between Jan. 1, 1957, and  
Dec. 31, 1987, are eligible for a program that will cover out-of- 
pocket expenses for certain illnesses.

Family members will have to provide documentation, such as marriage  
license or birth certificate, to prove their relationship to a  
veteran and copies of orders or base housing records as proof of  
residence.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/military/new-regulation-would-allow- 
dependents-to-claim-contaminated-water-health-issues-1.377096

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