[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 198 (Thursday, October 12, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 60584-60585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26091]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

20 CFR Parts 404 and 416

[Regulations Nos. 4 and 16]


Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders and 
Traumatic Brain Injury; Correction

AGENCY: Social Security Administration.

ACTION: Final rules; correction.

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SUMMARY: We published in the Federal Register of August 21, 2000, a 
document concerning revising our regulations for evaluating mental 
impairments. Inadvertently Secs. 404.1520a and 416.920a each contains a 
word from the prior rules that we had revised in the final rules. This 
document corrects that oversight.

DATES: Effective on September 20, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Barnes, Social Insurance 
Specialist, Social Security Administration, 6401 Security Boulevard, 
Baltimore, MD 21235-6401, [email protected], (410) 965-4171 or TTY 
(410) 966-5609 for information about these rules. For information on 
eligibility or filing for benefits, call our national toll-free number, 
1-800-772-1213 or TTY 1-800-325-0778, or visit our Internet web site, 
SSA Online, at www.ssa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We published a document in the Federal 
Register of July 18, 1991 (56 FR 33130), proposing revisions to 
Secs. 404.1520a and 416.920a. In the final rules we published in the 
Federal Register of August 21, 2000 (65 FR 50746), we inadvertently 
used the word ``slight'' from the prior rules for the second point of 
the five-point scale in Secs. 404.1520a(c)(4) and 416.920a(c)(4). We 
intended to use the word ``mild,'' as we had proposed. This correction 
makes Secs. 404.1520a(c)(4) and 416.920a(c)(4) consistent with the 
remainder of the final rules.
    In the Federal Register of August 21, 2000, make the following 
corrections. On page 50775, in the first column, in 
Sec. 404.1520a(c)(4), the first sentence, correct ``slight'' to read 
``mild.'' On page 50783, in the first column, in Sec. 416.920a(c)(4), 
the first sentence, correct ``slight'' to read ``mild.''


Sec. 404.1520a  Evaluation of Mental Impairments.

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    (c) * * *
    (4) When we rate the degree of limitation in the first three 
functional areas (activities of daily living; social functioning; and 
concentration, persistence, or pace), we will use the following five-
point scale: None, mild, moderate, marked, and extreme. * * *
* * * * *


Sec. 416.920a  Evaluation of Mental Impairments.

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    (c) * * *
    (4) When we rate the degree of limitation in the first three 
functional areas (activities of daily living; social functioning; and 
concentration, persistence, or pace), we will use the following five-
point scale: None, mild, moderate, marked, and extreme. * * *
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    Dated: September 25, 2000.
Georgia E. Myers,
SSA Regulations Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-26091 Filed 10-11-00; 8:45 am]
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