We formally request that the following functions be conducted by an organization outside the realm of the Department of the Navy and an independent and unbiased entity performs the following duties.

Outreach:  A dedicated, publicized, outreach program in which former NAF Atsugi, Japan residents can contact and address health concerns.  It would be beneficial to have this in place soon as this effort would contribute to an accurate registry and notification programs. Suggest that an on-line database be created and made available for former residents to access in which they can provide contact, health and other pertinent information via email or phone.

 Registry:  Prepared a valid residential registry, which includes all former residents, with no exclusions; which can be utilized to provide personnel information to the Department of Veterans' Affairs. As the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC)  have completed the 2009 Atsugi Health Study, a registry should almost be complete.

 Notification: Publish and notify all NAF Atsugi, Japan residents and the Department of Veterans' Affairs of all chemicals that was documented, at any time during the incinerator operations, to exceed safe exposure levels and categorized as  pollutants that are considered harmful to public health as set by law.  Include an accurate list of cancer and non-cancerous illnesses associated with each documented toxic chemical. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) produces toxicological profiles which confirm health affects for many toxic chemicals, with this in mind, I believe that there should not be any questions regarding any adverse health affects caused by any specific toxic chemical that was documented to exceed safe limits.

NAF Atsugi Health Survey: Request data be gathered from all persons who lived, worked or went to school and or attended day care at NAF Atsugi, Japan from 1983 - 2001, for six months or more, data questions and or subject areas should be very broad in range which allows the respondents to include the following information; Dates stationed at Atsugi: Information on children such as ages while at Atsugi to include all children in utero, even if the pregnancy ended after the respondent left Atsugi: health history, medical complaints and or diagnosis that can be supported by health records and any other information that is deemed vital so former resident do not have to continue to repeat survey after survey regarding this issue and in order to save funding dollars so this effort will not have to be recurring.   Confirm that families did
 accompany sponsor to NAF Atsugi, Japan and do not include persons in the survey did not.  Collected data should then be compared to a populace in which there is no known toxic contaminated air, soil, water or food and all data shall be publish to include total count of
 children and adults, all childhood and adult disease and or cancers,  with out any bias or exclusion.

Benefits & Compensation: Assure that military personnel, dependents and other qualifying populace received annual medical examinations to include thyroid, liver, and kidney functioning assessments as well Veterans' associated health care benefits and compensation.  Additionally a list of presumptive conditions for those who were stationed at NAF Atsugi, Japan and exposed to high levels of DIOXIN, Arsenic, Benzene, Cadmium, Chromium, Lead, PCBs, Nitrogen Dioxide, Mercury, Sulfur Dioxide and other chemicals that were above MCLs in the air and soil from 1983-2001 be developed and set in placed with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs so that all those exposed can received the appropriate benefits and compensation. 

Note: Currently the VA acknowledges DIOXIN (Agent Orange) related exposure for Vietnam Veterans.  The DON has fully documented the NAF Atsugi residents were exposed to high levels of Dioxin.

 VA Watchdog dot org 

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