BVA9506497 
DOCKET NO.  92-07 173     )       DATE
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On appeal from the decision of the
Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office in Baltimore,
Maryland

THE ISSUE

Entitlement to service connection for bilateral knee disability.

REPRESENTATION

Appellant represented by: Disabled American Veterans

WITNESSES AT HEARING ON APPEAL

Appellant and his father.

ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD

Anthony D. Dokurno, Associate Counsel

INTRODUCTION

The veteran performed active military service from July 1991 to
October 1991.

This matter originally came before the Board of Veterans' Appeals
(Board) on appeal from an October 1991 rating determination by
the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Office (RO),
which denied entitlement to service connection for bilateral
retropatellar pain syndrome and right knee genu valgus.  The
veteran filed a Notice of Disagreement, seeking service
connection for "my bilateral knee condition."  Entitlement to
service connection for a bilateral knee condition is the issue
which has been developed and certified on appeal.  The appeal was
initially received at the Board in May 1992 and, following a
hearing at the Board in February 1993, the case was remanded to
the RO for additional development in April 1993.

Upon completion of the requested development, the RO, in a rating
decision of January 1994, granted service connection for a
bilateral knee disorder, characterized as chronic right knee
sprain and chronic left knee sprain.  Genu valgus, right knee,
continued to be listed on the rating decision as a nonservice-
connected condition.  The veteran has not filed a Notice of
Disagreement as to the genu valgus condition of the right knee.

CONTENTIONS OF APPELLANT ON APPEAL

The veteran has contended that he is entitled to service
connection for a bilateral knee condition because he began to
experience pain in both knees during service.

DECISION OF THE BOARD

The Board, in accordance with the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A.
§ 7104 (West 1991), has reviewed and considered all of the
evidence and material of record in the veteran's claims file.
Based on its review of the relevant evidence in this matter, and
for the following reasons and bases, it is the decision of the
Board that the issue on appeal has been granted in full and that
there is no question of law or fact for the Board to decide.
Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

FINDING OF FACT

The benefits sought on appeal by the veteran, i.e., service
connection for a bilateral knee disorder, has been granted in
full.

CONCLUSION OF LAW

There is no question of fact or law for the Board to decide.
38 U.S.C.A. §§ 7104, 7105(d)(5) (West 1991); 38 C.F.R. §§ 19.7,
20.101 (1994).

REASONS AND BASES FOR FINDING AND CONCLUSION

On his October 1991 Application for Compensation or Pension, the
veteran listed the disability for which he was seeking
compensation as "both knees."  As noted above, in its October
1991 rating decision, the RO denied service connection for
bilateral retropatellar pain syndrome and right knee genu valgus.
The veteran filed a Notice of Disagreement initiating an appeal
as to the denial of service connection for a bilateral knee
condition.  The RO in its January 1994 rating decision granted
service connection for a bilateral knee condition.  In the
Board's opinion, the veteran's claim of entitlement to service
connection for a bilateral knee condition has been granted in
full.  There is no question of law or fact for the Board to
decide.  Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

ORDER

The veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for a
bilateral knee disability has been granted in full.  The appeal
is dismissed.

          GARY L. GICK
          Member, Board of Veterans' Appeals

The Board of Veterans' Appeals Administrative Procedures
Improvement Act, Pub. L. No. 103-271, § 6, 108 Stat. 740, ___
(1994), permits a proceeding instituted before the Board to be
assigned to an individual member of the Board for a deter-
mination.  This proceeding has been assigned to an individual
member of the Board.

NOTICE OF APPELLATE RIGHTS:  Under 38 U.S.C.A. § 7266 (West
1991), a decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals granting less
than the complete benefit, or benefits, sought on appeal is
appealable to the United States Court of Veterans Appeals within
120 days from the date of mailing of notice of the decision, pro-
vided that a Notice of Disagreement concerning an issue which was
before the Board was filed with the agency of original
jurisdiction on or after November 18, 1988.  Veterans' Judicial
Review Act, Pub. L. No. 100-687, § 402 (1988).  The date which
appears on the face of this decision constitutes the date of
mailing and the copy of this decision which you have received is
your notice of the action taken on your appeal by the Board of
Veterans' Appeals.