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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is adding to its adjudication regulations a provision to implement the fully developed claim (FDC) program through which claimants waive certain statutory and regulatory response periods and assistance in gathering evidence at the time the claim is filed to expedite the processing and adjudication of a claim. Based on the statutory provisions of Public Law 112-154, the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012, VA is also adding to its regulations a potential one-year retroactive effective date provision for qualified original compensation FDCs received from August 6, 2013, through August 5, 2015. Any award granted for an original compensation FDC filed during this timeframe may receive up to a one-year retroactive effective date based upon facts found but not earlier than one year before the date of receipt of the application.