From: ORANGE@MBCL.BITNET
Newsgroups: soc.veterans
Subject: agent orange report
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:56:00 GMT
Reply-To: Viet Nam War Discussion List <VWAR-L@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>

the following is the exec. director report for june 92.

                        mr. bill lewis

                        NJ AGENT ORANGE COMMISSION
                            P.O.BOX 1717
                          TRENTON N.J. 08607-1717




                  NEW JERSEY AGENT ORANGE COMMISSION
                     EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT
                              JUNE, 1992


                       ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH

          June has been a busy month for us in the area of
     outreach activities and meetings. On June 9 I attended a
     meeting of the Agent Orange Coordinating Council in
     Washington D.C. On June 11-12 Jacquie and Ed staffed an
     information booth at the American Legion state convention in
     Wildwood. On June 18-21 I attended the New York Vietnam
     Veterans of America state convention and gave presentations
     and workshops on Agent Orange. On June 28 I plan to attend
     the VVA state council meeting in Oakhurst.


                          OFFICE ACTIVITIES


          We have been advised by DMAVA that we must move our
     offic
ocation. The lease space in our building has expired
     and will not be renewed. We are in the process of looking at
     alternate sites. We have been advised that we must be out of
     our current offices by the end of August. On June 17 I
     looked at a site in downtown Trenton. The site is adequate
     in size, but poorly laid out for our needs.


                  AGENT ORANGE COORDINATING COUNCIL


          I attended the meeting of this Council on June 9. We
     learned that the chairmen of the Council, Admiral Elmo
     Zumwalt and Mr. Richard Christian of the American Legion
     have been invited to attend  part of the first meeting of
     the National Academy of Sciences scientific panel on June
     26.  Attorney Rob Hager also attended the meeting and
     advised us that oral argument in the Ivy case is schedule
     for October 5 in the U.S. Second Court of Appeals in New
     York. Mr. Hager also stressed the need for amicus briefs in
     this case. The next meeting of the Council is scheduled for
     September 29.












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              BIRTH DEFECT/LEARNING DISABILITY REGISTRY

          We have received the questionnaires for this project
     and have started to distribute them to those on our waiting
     list. We are now beginning to increase our solicitation of
     veterans to participate in the registry.


                             AMICUS BRIEF

          I received a call from a state Deputy Attorney General
     last week who has been assigned to evaluating this project.
     The discussion was promising, and I am hopeful we are now
     seeing some forward movement in the Attorney General's
     office on this effort. We have also heard that there has
     been some forward movement in the state of Illinois to join
     in with an amicus brief.





     William W. Lewis
     Executive Director
     P.O. Box 1717
     Trenton, N.J. 08607
      609-530-8162