(1) A description of efforts underway within the
Department of Defense to identify tests that were
conducted as part of Project SHAD and to declas-
sify information concerning such tests.
(2) A description of each test identified under
section 3(a), including the test name, test objective,
chemical or biological agents involved, solvents in-
volved, and number of members of the Armed
Forces, and the number of civilians potentially af-
fected by such test.
(3) A description of the plans of the Secretary
of Defense for the release of information on each
test so identified.
(4) A description of the actions the Secretary of
Defense proposes to undertake with the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs in order to notify former members
of the Armed Forces potentially affected by each
test so identified of their participation in the test.
(5) A description of the actions the Secretary
proposes to undertake in order to notify persons
other than former members of the Armed Forces
who were potentially affected by each test so identi-
fied of their participation in such test.
(6) Information, to the extent feasible, on tests
conducted as part of Project SHAD for which infor-
mation has not been declassified.
(7) An evaluation of the effectiveness of efforts
described under paragraph (1) and any rec-
ommendations for improvement in future investiga-
tion efforts.
(c) CONTINUING FUNCTIONS.—Upon completion of
the report under subsection (b), the Oversight Working
Group shall continue to review Department of Defense in-
vestigations of any other cases of chemical or biological
testing by the Department of Defense in which members
of the Armed Forces or civilians may have been exposed
to chemical or biological agents with or without their
knowledge or consent.
(d) INFORMATION AND HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE OF
KEY VETERANS
AND VETERAN SERVICE ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—The Oversight Working Group shall seek to iden-
tify veterans and veterans services organizations with sig-
nificant information involving test projects such as Project
SHAD and Project 112 and shall seek to have such infor-
mation made available to the Secretary of Defense and
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. If feasible, such infor-
mation shall be included in reports of the Oversight Work-
ing Group.
(e) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Oversight
Working Group shall submit an annual report to Con-
gress. Each such report shall include the following:
(1) Information on the activities of the Over-
sight Working Group during the year covered by the
report.
(2) With respect to any tests identified since
the previous report under this section that were con-
ducted as part of any testing of chemical or biologi-
cal agents by the Department of Defense in which
members of the Armed Forces or civilians may have
been exposed to chemical or biological agents with-
out their knowledge or consent, information in the
same manner as provided for under subsection (c).
(3) Information on costs associated with the
work of the Oversight Working Group during the
year covered by the report.
(f) ACCESS TO DECLASSIFIED INFORMATION.—As
Department of Defense information relating to tests of re-
ferred to in section 3(a) is declassified, the Secretary of
Defense shall ensure that such information is immediately
provided to the Oversight Working Group.
SEC. 5. FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS.
(a) NOTIFICATION OF VETERANS.—The Secretary of
Veterans Affairs shall notify in writing each veteran who
is determined to have been involved in any of the tests
conducted as part of any testing of chemical or biological
agents by the Department of Defense in which members
of the Armed Forces may have been exposed to chemical
or biological agents without their knowledge or consent,
including testing conducted as part of Project SHAD.
Such notification shall include detailed information as to
the veteran’s participation in such testing and of the vet-
eran’s possible exposure to chemical or biological agents
or solvents as a result of such testing, including when and
where the testing was conducted and what type of chem-
ical or biological agents or solvents were used in the test-
ing. Such notification shall also include instructions on
how to receive a health care evaluation from the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs.
(b) EVALUATION OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.—
As additional information becomes available concerning
Project SHAD or any other testing of chemical or biologi-
cal agents by the Department of Defense in which mem-
bers of the Armed Forces or civilians may have been ex-
posed to chemical or biological agents without their knowl-
edge or consent, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, work-
ing in conjunction with the Director of the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, shall act
expeditiously to review declassified material to determine
any lasting health effects that may have been incurred by
veterans as a result of such exposure. Any such health
effects information shall be made available to the public
and to Members of Congress upon request and to any vet-
eran who may have incurred such health effects and shall
be made available through the public internet world-wide-
web site of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(c) NOTIFICATION TO AFFECTED VETERANS.—When
health effects due to exposures referred to in subsection
(b) are identified, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
notify by mail any veteran who, based upon the informa-
tion available to the Secretary, may have been subject to
such exposure. Such notification shall include notice of the
possible exposure of the veteran, a description of the po-
tential health effects of such exposure, and instructions
on how to receive a health care evaluation from the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs.
(d) CLINICAL EVALUATION.—The Institute of Medi-
cine shall undertake an overall clinical evaluation of all
chemical and biological testing conducted by the Depart-
ment of Defense to determine a history of how veterans’