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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.


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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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