Citation Nr: 21065614
Decision Date: 10/26/21	Archive Date: 10/26/21

DOCKET NO. 13-08 179
DATE: October 26, 2021

ORDER

Entitlement to service connection for hypertension, to include as secondary to contaminated water exposure at Camp Lejeune, or as secondary to a service-connected anxiety disorder is dismissed.

FINDING OF FACT

A September 2021 rating decision granted service connection for hypertension.

CONCLUSION OF LAW

As there is no longer a claim in controversy, the claim for entitlement to service connection for hypertension is moot.  38 U.S.C. § 7104.

REASONS AND BASES FOR FINDING AND CONCLUSION

The Veteran served on active duty from March 1966 to March 1968.  

This matter comes before the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) on appeal from an April 2010 rating decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Office (RO) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  

This appeal has been advanced on the Board's docket pursuant to 38 U.S.C. § 7107(a)(2); 38 C.F.R. § 20.902(c). 

Dismissal

This matter has previously been before the Board, most recently in September 2020.  At that time, the Board remanded the claim for service connection for hypertension to obtain an adequate VA examination and an addendum VA medical opinion.  Following further evidentiary development, the RO granted the claim for service connection for hypertension in a September 2021 rating decision.  Notwithstanding this decision, the RO returned the matter to the Board, apparently in error.  As the September 2021 decision is considered a full grant of the benefits sought, the issue is dismissed as moot.  See Grantham v. Brown, 114 F.3d 1156 (Fed. Cir. 1997); see also 38 U.S.C. § 7104.      

 

 

S.C. KREMBS

Veterans Law Judge

Board of Veterans' Appeals

Attorney for the Board	M. Snyder, Associate Counsel

The Board's decision in this case is binding only with respect to the instant matter decided. This decision is not precedential and does not establish VA policies or interpretations of general applicability. 38 C.F.R. § 20.1303.