[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 4, 2008)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 31753]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12378]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

38 CFR Part 3

RIN 2900-AG15


Disease Subject to Presumptive Service Connection; Correction

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Correcting amendment.

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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the regulations of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that governs presumptive service 
connection for certain diseases from exposure to ionizing radiation 
during military service. This correction is required in order to amend 
a cross-reference in the regulation. No substantive change to the 
content of the regulations is being made by this correcting amendment.

DATES: Effective Date: June 4, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tracy Wang, Office of Regulation 
Policy and Management (00REG), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461-4902.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VA published a final rule in the Federal 
Register on April 27, 1993 (See 58 FR 25563), to implement Section 2 of 
the Veterans' Radiation Exposure Amendments of 1992, Public Law 102-
578, which amended 38 U.S.C. 1112(c) to repeal the requirement that, to 
be presumed service connected, specified diseases of veterans who 
participated in a radiation-risk activity to become at least 10 percent 
disabling within 40 years after the veterans' last exposure to 
radiation. Accordingly, VA removed 38 CFR 3.309(d)(3) and redesignated 
Sec.  3.309(d)(4) as the new Sec.  3.309(d)(3). However, VA neglected 
to amend the reference to the redesignated Sec.  3.309(d)(3) that 
appears at Sec.  3.309(d)(3)(vii)(C). This document corrects that 
omission by removing ``(d)(4)(vi)'' and adding, in its place, 
``(d)(3)(vi)''.

List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 3

    Administrative practice and procedure, Claims, Disability benefits, 
Health care, Pensions, Veterans, Vietnam.

    Approved: May 29, 2008.
William F. Russo,
Director of Regulations Management.

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For the reasons set out in the preamble, VA is correcting 38 CFR part 3 
as follows.

PART 3--ADJUDICATION

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1. The authority citation for part 3, subpart A continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), unless otherwise noted.


Sec.  3.309  [Corrected]

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2. In Sec.  3.309(d)(3)(vii)(C), remove ``paragraph (d)(4)(vi)'' and 
add, in its place, ``paragraph (d)(3)(vi)''.

[FR Doc. E8-12378 Filed 6-3-08; 8:45 am]
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