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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Federal department that pays Vietnam veterans’ disability compensation, including for presumed Agent Orange illnesses.

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Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. 6 Oct 1989 special assistant to the Secretary Primary record 1

Agent Orange Act of 1991 required to ask for the scientific review Primary record 2 3 4 5

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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
On October 6, 1989 I was appointed as special assistant to Secretary Derwinski of the Department of Veterans Affairs
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)
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
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
an independent nonprofit scientific organization with appropriate expertise which is not part of the Federal Government
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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