[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 2004)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 6223]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-2795]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

38 CFR Part 3

RIN 2900-AL38


Testimony Certified or Under Oath

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Withdrawal of proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: This document withdraws a proposed rule that would have 
removed the adjudication regulation that requires written and oral 
testimony to be certified or given under oath or affirmation in most 
cases. This proposed rule was erroneously published in the Federal 
Register on July 31, 2002, at 67 FR 49646, under a previously deleted 
Regulatory Identification Number (RIN 2900-AK24). The proposal is being 
withdrawn because the Department of Veterans Affairs is revising and 
republishing its part 3 compensation and pension regulations to make 
them easier to understand and apply. To ensure that this proposal is 
consistent with other related regulations being rewritten and published 
in that project, it is being withdrawn at this time. The Regulation 
Rewrite Project plans to republish this proposed rulemaking within one 
of its packages of regulations, ``General Evidence Requirements, 
Effective Dates, Revision of Decisions, and Protection of Existing 
Ratings.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Russo, Chief of C&P Rewrite 
Projects (00REG2), Office of Regulation Policy and Management, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20420, telephone (202) 273-9515. This is not a toll-free number.

    Approved: February 3, 2004.
Anthony J. Principi,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 04-2795 Filed 2-9-04; 8:45 am]
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