# Disease Associated With Exposure to Certain Herbicide Agents: Type 2 Diabetes
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2001-05-08 · Effective 2001-07-09 · 66 FR 23166
## Document
- **Document number:** 01-11569
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 66 FR 23166
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 3
- **Publication date:** 2001-05-08
- **Effective date:** 2001-07-09
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its adjudication regulations concerning presumptive service connection for certain diseases for which there is no record during service. This amendment is necessary to implement a decision of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under the authority granted by 38 U.S.C. 1116 that there is a positive association between exposure to herbicides used in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era and the subsequent development of Type 2 diabetes. The intended effect of this amendment is to establish presumptive service connection for that condition based on herbicide exposure.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/05/08/01-11569/disease-associated-with-exposure-to-certain-herbicide-agents-type-2-diabetes)
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