A bill to transfer from the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to the Secretary of Health and Human Services the responsibility to conduct an epidemiological study of the long-term health effects in humans of exposure to phenoxy herbicides (including Agent Orange).

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Introduced

23 September 1982

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Status

Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summary

Amends the Veterans Health Programs Extension and Improvement Act of 1979 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, rather than the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, to conduct the epidemiological study of the long-term health effects on humans of exposure to phenoxy herbicides (including Agent Orange).

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/house-bill/7170
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