# [Corrected]
**AGENCY:**
Department of Veterans Affairs.
**ACTION:**
Correcting amendment.
**SUMMARY:**
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published in the *Federal Register* of September 29, 2010, a document amending its adjudication regulations concerning presumptive service connection for certain diseases. In the regulatory text of that document, VA inadvertently omitted a comma following the word “etiology” in the first sentence of § 3.317(a)(2)(ii). This document corrects that omission.
**DATES:**
*Effective Date:* This correction is effective October 5, 2010.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
William F. Russo, Director of Regulations Management (02REG), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, or call (202) 273-9515 (not a toll-free number).
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
On September 29, 2010, VA published in the *Federal Register* (75 FR 59968), an amendment to 38 CFR 3.317 to implement a decision of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that there is a positive association between service in Southwest Asia during certain periods and the subsequent development of certain infectious diseases. In the first sentence of § 3.317(a)(2)(ii), we inadvertently omitted a comma following the word “etiology.” This correction document adds the comma immediately following the word “etiology” in that sentence.
**List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 3**
Administrative practice and procedure, Claims, Disability benefits, Health care, Pensions, Radioactive materials, Veterans, Vietnam.
Approved: September 30, 2010.
William F. Russo,
Director, Regulations Management, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs.
**38 CFR Part 3**
For the reason set out in the preamble, VA is correcting 38 CFR part 3 as follows:
**PART 3—ADJUDICATION**
1. The authority citation for part 3, subpart A continues to read as follows:
**Authority:**
38 U.S.C. 501(a), unless otherwise noted.
**38 CFR Part 3**
§ 3.317
2. In § 3.317, paragraph (a)(2)(ii), first sentence, add a comma immediately after the word “etiology.”