[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 211 (Friday, October 30, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 68962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-24095]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Web Automated Reference Material System

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: VA announces that the Veteran Readiness and Employent Service 
Manual (M28R) was renamed M28C and was made available in an electronic 
public access through the KnowVA Knowledge Base.

DATES: These changes are effective October 1, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristine Kuehnle, Policy and 
Procedures Supervisor, Veteran Readiness and Employment Service, 
Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420, 202-461-9749. (This is not a 
toll-free telephone number.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Web Automated Reference Manual System 
(WARMS), available at http://www.benefits.va.gov/WARMS/, provides 
public access to VA benefits policies and procedures issued in the form 
of manuals, directives and handbooks. Historically, M28R was 
electronically available to the public only in WARMS. WARMS displays 
M28R content in an individual portable document format, making it 
difficult to search for information or navigate from one document to 
another.
    Effective October 1, 2020, M28R was renamed M28C and was made 
available in an electronic public access through the KnowVA Knowledge 
Base, available at http://www.knowva.ebenefits.va.gov/. The M28C 
content found on KnowVA is a mirror image of the M28C content available 
to VA employees through internal servers and is updated simultaneously 
when VA updates M28C content on the internal servers. Moreover, KnowVA 
is more user friendly than WARMS, with an intuitive search engine, 
keyword search capability and hyperlinked cross references to other 
M28C content, making it easier for users to locate information.
    On October 1, 2020, VA made the M28C content available to the 
public. However, the M28R content will remain in WARMS for historical 
purposes until the M28R content is moved to the internal servers and 
the KnowVA Knowledge Base.

Signing Authority

    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or designee, approved this 
document and authorized the undersigned to sign and submit the document 
to the Office of the Federal Register for publication electronically as 
an official document of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Brooks D. 
Tucker, Acting Chief of Staff, Department of Veterans Affairs, approved 
this document on October 27, 2020 for publication.

Luvenia Potts,
Regulation Development Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy & 
Management, Office of the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2020-24095 Filed 10-29-20; 8:45 am]
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