FUNDING FOR AGENT ORANGE BLOOD TESTING.

SEC. 1201. FUNDING FOR AGENT ORANGE BLOOD TESTING. Funds appropriated to the Veterans’ Administration in Public Law 98–181 for medical and prosthetic research and obligated through the Centers for Disease Control for a contract for the conduct of an epidemiological study relating to exposure of veterans to the herbicide known as Agent Orange shall, upon the cancellation of that contract, be available for obligation until September 30, 1989, in the amounts of— (1) $3,000,000 for payment of expenses of the Department of the Air Force in connection with blood tests of individuals who, while serving in the Air Force, participated in the spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam during the Vietnam era; and (2) $1,000,000 for payment of expenses of a survey of scientific evidence, studies, and literature relating to health effects of possible exposure to toxic chemicals contained in herbicides used in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era, which survey shall be conducted by an independent scientific entity under contract to the Veterans Administration pursuant to a law enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act.