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(a)at the beginning of section 53(2 (which provides as to the effect of presentment of a bill of exchange) there shall be inserted the words “ Subject to section 75A of this Act, ”; and
(1)For the purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject to section 1113 of this title—
(A)a disease specified in paragraph (2) of this subsection becoming manifest as specified in that paragraph in a veteran who performed covered service; and
(B)each additional disease (if any) that (i) the Secretary determines in regulations prescribed under this section warrants a presumption of service-connection by reason of having positive association with exposure to an herbicide agent, and (ii) becomes manifest within the period (if any) prescribed in such regulations in a veteran who performed covered service, and while so serving was exposed to that herbicide agent,
shall be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such disease during the period of such service.
(2)The diseases referred to in paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection are the following:
(A)Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10 percent or more.
(B)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.
(C)Chloracne or another acneform disease consistent with chloracne becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10 percent or more within one year after the last date on which the veteran performed covered service.
(D)Hodgkin’s disease becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10 percent or more.
(E)Porphyria cutanea tarda becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10 percent or more within a year after the last date on which the veteran performed covered service.
(F)Respiratory cancers (cancer of the lung, bronchus, larynx, or trachea) becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10 percent or more.
(G)Multiple myeloma becoming manifest to a degree of disability of 10 percent or more.
(H)Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2).
(I)Parkinsonism.
(J)Bladder cancer.
(K)Hypothyroidism.
(L)Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.
(M)Hypertension.
(3)For purposes of this section, the term “herbicide agent” means a chemical in an herbicide used in support of the United States and allied military operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the period beginning on January 9, 1962, and ending on May 7, 1975.
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