Sec. 2010. STUDY ON EXPOSURE BY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES TO TOXICANTS AT KARSHI-KHANABAD AIR BASE IN UZBEKISTAN
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## SEC. 2010 STUDY ON EXPOSURE BY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES TO TOXICANTS AT KARSHI-KHANABAD AIR BASE IN UZBEKISTAN ###
(a)Agreement and Study Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall enter into an agreement with the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for the Administrator to complete, not later than 10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, a study to identify— ####
(1)incidents of cancer and other diseases or illnesses experienced by individuals who served in the active military, naval, or air service (as defined in section 101 of title 38, United States Code) in the covered location set forth under subsection
(b)during the corresponding period set forth under such subsection; and ####
(2)a list of toxic substances, chemicals, ionizing radiation, and airborne hazards such individuals may have been exposed to during such service. ###
(b)Covered Location and Corresponding Period The covered location and corresponding period set forth under this subsection are Karshi-Khanabad
(K2)Air Base in Uzbekistan and the period beginning on October 1, 2001, and ending on September 30, 2005. ###
(c)Elements The study conducted under subsection
(a)shall include the following: ####
(1)An assessment regarding the conditions of the covered location set forth under subsection (b), including an identification of toxic substances, chemicals, ionizing radiation, and airborne hazards contaminating such covered location during such corresponding period. ####
(2)An epidemiological study of the health consequences of the service described in subsection
(a)to the individuals described in such subsection. ###
(d)Support for Study ####
(1)In general The Secretary shall provide the Administrator with assistance in carrying out the study required by subsection (a), including by gathering such information as the Administrator may consider useful in carrying out the study. ####
(2)Obtaining information concerning exposure Assistance under paragraph
(1)provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall include compiling information on exposure described in subsection (a)(2) and the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs such information concerning such exposure as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs considers appropriate for purposes of the study required by subsection (a), including environmental sampling data relative to any location covered by the study. ###
(e)Biennial Updates No later than the date that is two years after the date of the enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once every two years thereafter until the date on which the study required by subsection
(a)is completed, the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress updates on the status of the matters covered by such study, including any preliminary findings of the Administrator. ###
(f)Final Report Not later than 60 days after the date on which the study required by subsection
(a)is completed, the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the findings of the Administrator with respect to such study. ###
(g)Inclusion of Uzbekistan in Certain Registries and Programs Section 201(c)(2) of the Dignified Burial and Other Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-260; 38 U.S.C. 527 note) is amended, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “Afghanistan or Iraq” and inserting “Afghanistan, Iraq, or Uzbekistan”. ###
(h)Depleted Uranium Follow-up Programs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure that any individual who deployed as a member of the Armed Forces to the covered location set forth in subsection
(b)during the corresponding period set forth in such subsection is covered by the Depleted Uranium Follow-up Programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs. ###
(i)Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— ####
(1)the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and ####
(2)the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
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STUDY ON EXPOSURE BY MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES TO TOXICANTS AT KARSHI-KHANABAD AIR BASE IN UZBEKISTAN
Pub. L.Pub. L. 112-260
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