Atsugi Incinerator FAQs

The PACT Act does not provide any presumptive disability coverage for the NAF Atsugi incinerator exposure. You can still file a claim independent of the PACT Act. However, you will need to provide evidence with your claim.

You may be eligible for presumptive disabilities under the PACT Act if you went on deployment to certain locations in the Southwest Asia theater of operations - even if you were not boots on the ground.

VFEA does not provide assistance with individual claims. Please reach out to a VA-accredited representative to assist with your claim.

A VA-accredited representative can help you understand and apply for any VA benefits you may be entitled to including: compensation, education, Veteran readiness and employment, home loans, life insurance, pension, health care, and burial benefits. A VA-accredited representative may also help you request further review of, or appeal, an adverse VA decision regarding benefits. VA-recognized Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs), and their representatives, always provide their services on benefit claims free-of-charge.

Yes. Children’s health risks from air pollution are generally higher than adults’.

Children breathe more air per pound of body weight than adults, so in the same environment they take in more of any airborne pollutant. They also tend to spend more time outdoors and closer to the ground, where dust, contaminated soil, and heavier particles are more concentrated, and they may put dusty hands or objects in their mouths or show pica‑type behaviors, all of which increases their exposure compared with nearby adults.

At the same time, their lungs, brains, immune systems, and hormone systems are still developing on a tight schedule, so toxic exposures can interfere with normal growth in ways that may be hard or impossible to reverse. Endocrine‑disrupting chemicals such as dioxins, for example, can disrupt hormonal signals that guide organ development, metabolism, and the timing of puberty, meaning a dose in early childhood can have a much larger long‑term impact than the same dose in an adult.