"The Project responds to a recommendation made by the VA Claims Processing Task Force in [October 2001] .... and to criticisms by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. The Task Force recommended that VA reorganize its regulations in a logical, coherent manner. The Court referred to the current regulations as a 'confusing tapestry' and criticized VA for maintaining substantive rules in its Adjudication Procedures Manual ... Although VA does not intend to complete this rulemaking in the near future, we request public comments on the consolidation of the prior proposed rules ... and on the changes made to those proposed rules."  MORE >>