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 108 STAT. 4650 PUBLIC LAW 103-446—NOV. 2, 1994 38 USC 1117 note. Termination date. (5) In each year after the implementation of the protocol, the Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences under which agreement appropriate experts shall review the adequacy of theprotocol and its miplementationby the Department of Veterans Affairs. (b) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER COMPREHENSIVE CUNICAL EVALUA- TION PROTOCOLS. —The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall ensure that the information collected through the protocol described in this section is collected and maintained in a manner that permits the effective and efficient cross-reference of that information with information collected and maintained through the comprehensive clinical protocols of the Department of Defense for Persian Gulf War veterans. (c) CASE DEFINITIONS AND DIAGNOSES.—The Secretary shall develop case definitions or diagnoses for illnesses associated with the service described in subsection (a)(1). The Secretary shall develop such definitions or diagnoses at the earUest possible date. SEC. 105. OUTREACH TO PERSIAN GULF VETERANS. (a) IN GENERAL. — The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall iinplement a comprehensive outreach program to inform Persian Gulf War veterans and their families of the medical care and other benefits that may be provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense arising from service in the Persian Gulf War. (b) NEWSLETTER.—(1) The outreach progrgun shall include a newsletter which shall be updated and mstributed at least semiannually and shall be distributed to the veterans Usted on the Persian Gulf War Veterans Health Registry. The newsletter shall include summaries of the status and findings of Government sponsored research on illnesses of Persian Gulf War veterans and meir families, as well as on benefits avEtilable to such individuals through the Department of Veterans Affairs. The newsletter shall be prepared in consultation with veterans service organizations. (2) The requirement under this subsection for the distribution of the newsletter shall terminate on December 31, 1999. (c) TOLL-FREE NUMBER.— The outreach program shall include establishment of a toU-fi -ee telephone number to provide Persian Gulf War veterans and their famiHes information on the Persian Gulf War Veterans Health Registry, health care and other benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and such other information as the Secretary considers appropriate. Such toll-free telephone number shall be established not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 106. COMPENSATION BENEFITS FOR DISABILITY RESULTING FROM ILLNESS ATTRIBUTED TO SERVICE DURING THE PERSIAN GULF WAR. (a) IN GENERAL.— (1) Chapter 11 is amended by adding at the end of subchapter II the following new section: "§1117. Compensation for disabilities occurring in Persian Gulf War veterans "(a) The Secretary may pay compensation under this subchapter to any Persian Guli veteran suffering from a chronic disabiHty resulting from an undiagnosed illness (or combination of undiagnosed illnesses) that—

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