Herbicide Presumptive Timeline Aid

Understanding the VA’s Timeline on Presumptive Herbicide Exposure

Use our herbicide exposure timeline to understand whether your condition should be presumptive due to agent orange exposure based on date the VA acknowledged the condition or location. If you believe your disability should be presumptive to agent orange exposure, you may need to refile, reopen, or appeal a past decision.

We highlight specific conditions and locations that were added by the PACT act below as well.

Date Disabilities Became Subject to Presumptive Service Connection Based Herbicide Exposure

Denotes changes created by the Pact Act.

February 5, 1991

• Chloracne or other acne-form disease soft tissue sarcoma other than:

  • Osteosarcoma

  • Chondrosarcoma

  • Kaposi’s sarcoma

  • Mesothelioma

February 6, 1991

• Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL)

February 3, 1994

• Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT)

• Hodgkin’s disease

May 8, 2001

• Type 2 diabetes mellitus

November 7, 1996

• Respiratory cancers of the:

  • lung

  • bronchus

  • larynx

  • trachea

• Multiple myeloma

June 9, 1994

• Prostate cancer

• Acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy

October 16, 2003

• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

May 7, 2009

• AL amyloidosis

August 31, 2010

• Ischemic heart disease (IHD)

• Chronic B-cell leukemia

• Parkinson’s disease

• Hodgkin’s disease

January 10, 2022

• Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)

• Hypertension

January 1, 2021

• Parkinsonism

• Bladder cancer

September 6, 2013

• Early-onset peripheral neuropathy

Locations and Time-frames Associated with Herbicide Exposure

Denotes changes created by the Pact Act.

C-123 Aircraft

There is a presumption of herbicide exposure associated with certain C-123 aircraft activities, but these claims generally fall under the jurisdiction of the St. Paul RO as discussed in M21-1, Part VIII, Subpart i, 1.A.2

Vietnam In-Country

January 9, 1962 to May 7, 1975

Blue Water Navy

January 9, 1962 to May 7, 1975

Thailand

At any United States or Royal Thai base, without regard to where on the base the Veteran was located or what military occupational specialty (MOS) the Veteran performed

Korean DMZ

September 1, 1967 toAugust 31, 1971

Laos

December 1, 1965 toSeptember 30, 1969

Cambodia

April 16, 1969 to April 30, 1969At Mimot or Krek, Kampong Cham Province

Guam or American Samoa

January 9, 1962 to July 31, 1980Or in the territorial waters thereof

Johnston Atoll

January 9, 1962 to July 31, 1980Or on a ship that called at Johnston Atoll

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