Event
Agent Orange Act of 1991
Law of 6 February 1991 that presumed three diseases service-connected for Vietnam veterans and had the National Academy of Sciences review the evidence.
- Dates
- 6 Feb 1991
- Also known as
- Public Law 102-4
Connections 5
interventions
- Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. 5 May 1990 reported to the Secretary in May 1990, before the Act passed; the charges are his Primary record 1
involved
- U.S. Congress passed it Primary record 2
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs required to ask for the scientific review Primary record 2345
- Institute of Medicine convened the first committee Primary record 4
led to
Timeline 2 dates
- 5 May 1990 Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. intervened in Agent Orange Act of 1991
- 6 Feb 1991 Agent Orange Act of 1991
Proof 5 sources
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Report to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs on the Association Between Adverse Health Effects and Exposure to Agent Orange, Special Assistant to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (copy on DocumentCloud), 5 May 1990.
Primary record
Archived copy
I conclude that there is adequate evidence for the Secretary to reasonably conclude that it is at least as likely as not that there is a relationship between exposure to Agent Orange and the following health problems:
I further conclude that the Veterans’ Advisory Committee on Environmental Hazards has not acted with impartiality in its review and assessment of the scientific evidence related to the association of adverse health effects and exposure to Agent Orange.
as Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Vietnam, I was aware that Agent Orange issued to Allied forces was frequently used on unrecorded missions.
what cannot be justified is the evidence of political interference in the design, implementation and drafting of results of the CDC study by Administration officials rather than CDC scientists.
As a result, the court invalidated the VA’s Dioxin regulation which denied service connection for all diseases other than chloracne
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Agent Orange Act of 1991, Public Law 102-4, 105 Stat. 11, U.S. Congress (Statutes at Large, via GovInfo), 6 Feb 1991.
Primary record
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
Each soft-tissue sarcoma becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10 percent or more other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, or mesothelioma.
an independent nonprofit scientific organization with appropriate expertise which is not part of the Federal Government
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Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange and U.S.-Vietnam Relations (CRS Report RL34761), Congressional Research Service, 30 Nov 2012.
Scholarship & press
For children of all exposed veterans: Spina bifida (but not spina bifida occulta)
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014, Summary, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies Press), 2016.
Primary record
This legislation directed the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ask the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to perform a comprehensive evaluation
In response to the first request, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a committee
whose conclusions the IOM published in 1994 in Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam
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Agent Orange exposure and disability compensation, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Primary record
We consider a condition presumptive when it’s established by law or regulation.
We’ve added 2 new Agent Orange presumptive conditions based on the PACT Act:
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