Federal Agency Decisions
Federal workers' compensation appeals from the Department of Labor's Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB), federal-sector labor-relations cases from the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), Longshore Act and Black Lung Benefits Act appeals from the Department of Labor's Benefits Review Board (BRB), precedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), environmental permit and penalty appeals from the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB), and whistleblower and other labor appeals from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB), each with a plain-English summary, the law it cites, and whether it counts as precedent. More agencies are coming.
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R.L. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Paterson, NJ
Injury claim remained closed on reconsideration
R.L. sought reconsideration of a traumatic injury claim and submitted hospital records through counsel. The Board found that the material did not show a legal error, raise a new relevant argument, or provide pertinent new evidence requiring OWCP to reopen the merits. It affirmed OWCP’s May 23, 2017…
T.M. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Torresdale Station, Philadelphia, PA
Hip condition was not linked to mail-carrier duties
T.M. attributed avascular necrosis and osteoarthritis of his left hip, which led to replacement surgery, to years of mail-carrier duties. OWCP accepted the work activities and the diagnoses. An impartial medical examiner found that the hip conditions were not caused by the duties, and the Board…
Shawn Hirt v. Gary Servaes Enterprises
Criminal-charge threat found unlawful
During settlement discussions in an earlier discrimination case, Gary Servaes Enterprises' attorney emailed that the company might refrain from seeking criminal charges against Shawn Hirt for allegedly false documents if Hirt withdrew his complaint. Judge Margaret A. Miller held that a reasonable…
Justin Holder, Battlefield Automotive, LLC, and Enhanced Alternatives, LLC, d/b/a Battlefield Automotive and Confederate Diesel
In re Justin Holder, Battlefield Automotive, LLC, and Enhanced Alternatives, LLC (EAB CAA Appeal No. 18-08C): consent agreement ratified
The EPA EAB order concerns Justin Holder, Battlefield Automotive, LLC, and Enhanced Alternatives, LLC, which also did business as Battlefield Automotive and Confederate Diesel. The order does not describe the underlying alleged violations or the specific obligations in the incorporated Consent…
M.D. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Melville, NY
Back injury claim lacked a medical diagnosis
M.D., a postal clerk, reported back strain while sorting mail on January 20, 2017. OWCP accepted that the workplace incident occurred. The Board found that the physician’s reports described back pain but did not establish a diagnosed injury, and an x-ray report did not supply a firm diagnosis…
M.D. and Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, VT
Termination of injury benefits reversed
M.D., a VA administrative assistant, received wage loss and medical benefits for accepted fibromyalgia and right arm conditions. OWCP relied on an impartial examiner to terminate those benefits. The examiner disputed a work related condition that OWCP had already accepted, contrary to the statement…
T.N. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Chicago, IL
Two percent right leg impairment award upheld
T.N., a postal city carrier, challenged a two percent right leg schedule award after an accepted knee injury. A new medical adviser rated impairment using the operative findings from a partial medial meniscectomy. The competing rating also assumed a lateral meniscus tear, but the operative report…
B.A. and U.S. Postal Service, Manor Station, Winston-Salem, NC
Knee claim not reopened on duplicate evidence
B.A., a postal city carrier associate, sought reconsideration of a denied left knee claim after a fall on ice at work. Her request repeated her account of the incident and resubmitted medical reports OWCP had already considered. The Board found no new legal argument or pertinent new medical…
D.M. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Eau Clair, WI
Late reconsideration denial reversed for unreviewed evidence
D.M., a postal rural carrier, requested reconsideration of a decision concerning additional wage loss from her accepted injuries. Her request was late, but OWCP had failed to consider a medical report received on the day of its earlier merit decision. The Board held that this failure demonstrated…
S.M. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Coppell, TX
Intermittent wage loss claim denied
S.M., a postal window clerk, sought compensation for intermittent wage loss between September 13, 2016 and April 7, 2017 after accepted neck and back injuries. Some claimed days overlapped a schedule award and could not also be paid as wage loss for the same injury. For later days, her physician…
J.W. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Orlando, FL
Emotional condition claim lacked a compensable work factor
J.W., a postal customer service supervisor, attributed an emotional condition to workplace incidents and management actions. The Board found that the record did not establish an error or abuse in the challenged administrative actions. It also found no corroborated threat and no proof that he was…
Insulation-N-Coatings d/b/a Force Enterprises
Spoil-pile violation affirmed, duplicate item vacated
Force Enterprises installed sewer pipe in a roughly 10-foot-deep trench while a spoil pile sat at the trench edge instead of at least two feet back. Based on inspection video, photographs, tools and footprints in the trench, and the foreman’s earlier statements, the judge found that employees had…
Matter of German BERMUDEZ-COTA
A later hearing notice completed a notice to appear
The Board reviewed a Mexican respondent's challenge to removal proceedings after his original notice to appear did not state the time and place of the initial hearing. The Board held that the notice to appear vested the Immigration Judge with jurisdiction and met the statutory notice requirements…
Jimmy Neafus v. Artisan Industrial Metals and Jeffboat, L.L.C.
Neafus v. Artisan Industrial Metals (BRB 17-0653): hearing loss award affirmed, payer changed
Jimmy Neafus developed hearing loss after noisy work for Jeffboat and later for Artisan Industrial Metals. The judge awarded benefits for a 28.4 percent binaural impairment and made Jeffboat liable because Artisan was defunct and uninsured. A Board majority held that the record did not show the…
Sophia Turner (widow of and on behalf of Ralph E. Turner) v. Big Elk Creek Coal Company, Incorporated and Old Republic Insurance Company
Turner v. Big Elk Creek Coal (BRB 17-0547 and 17-0548 BLA): miner and survivor denials affirmed
Sophia Turner pursued her late husband Ralph Turner's black lung benefits claim and her own survivor claim. The judge credited twenty-six years of coal mine work but found no total respiratory disability or complicated pneumoconiosis in the miner's claim. The Board upheld those findings and…
Lillie Neace (widow of and on behalf of Ishmeal Neace) v. Cumberland River Coal Company, self-insured through Arch Coal, Incorporated
Neace v. Cumberland River Coal (BRB 17-0478 and 17-0479 BLA): miner and survivor awards affirmed
Lillie Neace pursued her late husband's black lung claim and her own survivor claim. The judge credited Ishmeal Neace with twenty-four years of qualifying surface mine work, found total respiratory disability, and awarded miner benefits under the fifteen-year presumption. A Board majority upheld…
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio (Agency) and National Nurses United (Union)
Dayton VA and National Nurses United (FLRA 0-AR-5343): Title 38 removal exceptions dismissed
A patient’s wife reported that a registered nurse at the Dayton VA verbally abused the patient. After an agency investigation, the VA terminated the nurse, but an arbitrator found no just cause and ordered reinstatement with backpay. The Authority held that the nurse was appointed under 38 U.S.C. §…
United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (Agency) and National Treasury Employees Union (Union)
IRS and NTEU (FLRA 0-AR-5294): One-day-late QSI grievance barred
The IRS changed from rolling approval of quality step increases to one annual approval date because of budget constraints. NTEU challenged the delay but conceded that it invoked arbitration one day after the agreement's thirty-day deadline. An arbitrator excused the delay based on his authority to…
Secretary of Labor v. Panther Creek Mining, LLC
Mishandled assessment reopened
A Panther Creek employee found the proposed assessment in a mine file tray four days after it had already become final. The operator moved to reopen within about two weeks of the final-order date and began changing the service address for assessments from mine post office boxes to the company…
Secretary of Labor v. Rockwell Mining, LLC
One-day-late contest reopened
MSHA mailed Rockwell Mining's proposed assessment to a post office box rather than the operator's address of record. The box was not checked for two weeks, and a newly hired receptionist then handled the assessment. Rockwell filed its contest one day after the assessment became final. The Secretary…
Secretary of Labor v. Essroc Cement Corporation
Default reopening denied
Essroc failed to answer the Secretary's penalty petition and then failed to respond to a Commission show-cause order, causing a default. Its reopening motion initially claimed that the company never received the petition, but delivery records showed an employee signed for it and Essroc later…
Secretary of Labor v. Thomas L. Puckett, employed by Frasure Creek Mining, LLC
Secretary of Labor v. Thomas L. Puckett (FMSHRC WEVA 2015-932): No penalty owed after dismissal
Thomas Puckett timely contested an individual civil penalty assessment in 2015, but MSHA did not file the required penalty petition. A show-cause order went unanswered, so the Chief Administrative Law Judge dismissed the case for the Secretary's failure to prosecute. MSHA later incorrectly recorded…
Secretary of Labor v. Chavarria Construction, Inc.
Two penalty contests reopened
Chavarria Construction intended to contest portions of two penalty assessments. It mailed the general notice to MSHA's Arlington office but mistakenly sent the chart identifying the disputed violations with payment for the uncontested penalties, apparently to the St. Louis payment center. The…
Secretary of Labor v. Signal Peak Energy, LLC
Ventilation-plan rejection stands on 2-2 split
Signal Peak proposed replacing its dual-entry tailgate return with a single-entry system to reduce oxygen entering the gob and lessen spontaneous-combustion, roof-control, and material-handling risks. MSHA rejected the plan because it believed the single-entry system could expose miners to noxious…
Secretary of Labor v. Barnette Contractors, Inc.
Misdirected penalty contest reopened
Barnette Contractors mailed its penalty contest before the assessment became final, but sent it to the Commission and an MSHA district office rather than MSHA's Civil Penalty Compliance Office. Postal records confirmed that the Commission received the letter several weeks before the contest…
Secretary of Labor v. Cumberland Contura, LLC
Reopening denied for unreliable contest system
Cumberland Contura said a new parent company and reassigned personnel left it without a reliable penalty-contest system after Alpha Natural Resources emerged from bankruptcy. Although the company completed a contest form, it did not file it, did not act after claiming its new system became…
Secretary of Labor v. M-Class Mining, LLC
Staff-transition default reopened
M-Class Mining reassigned its safety director and gave a new employee responsibility for proposed assessments. The employee had difficulty locating some underlying citations and failed to file the contest on time. M-Class retrained the employee and moved to reopen within 30 days after receiving…
Secretary of Labor v. Southern Aggregates, LLC
Late penalty contest reopened
Southern Aggregates intended to contest penalties for two citations but mistakenly mailed the contest with payment for two uncontested citations to MSHA's payment center rather than its penalty compliance office. MSHA processed the partial payment before the assessment became final, and the…
Ralph Upton v. Four Aces Mining, Incorporated and Employer Insurance of Wausau
Upton v. Four Aces Mining (BRB 17-0597 BLA): benefits denial affirmed
Ralph Upton appealed the denial of a later black lung benefits claim without a lawyer. The judge found that the evidence did not establish total respiratory disability, which was required for benefits and for the fifteen-year presumption. The Board upheld that finding because the breathing and…
Ronnie Southwood, Sr. v. Whitaker Coal Corporation and Sun Coal Company
Southwood v. Whitaker Coal (BRB 17-0591 BLA): benefits denial affirmed
Ronnie Southwood appealed a black lung benefits denial without a lawyer. The judge credited eleven years of coal mine work, too few for the fifteen-year presumption, and found that Southwood had pneumoconiosis but had not proved total respiratory disability. The Board upheld the work history…
Ephie Hensley v. Unicorn Mining Incorporated
Hensley v. Unicorn Mining (BRB 17-0562 BLA): benefits denial affirmed
Ephie Hensley appealed the denial of his black lung benefits claim without a lawyer. The judge credited 32 years of underground coal mine work and found pneumoconiosis, but found neither complicated pneumoconiosis nor total respiratory disability. The Board upheld the judge's decision to give less…
Thomas H. Peters v. David Stanley Consultants
Peters v. David Stanley Consultants (BRB 17-0553 BLA): benefits award affirmed
David Stanley Consultants and its insurer appealed an award of black lung benefits to Thomas Peters after an earlier Board remand. The judge found that Peters's coal mine work required heavy labor and that medical opinions established total respiratory disability. With at least fifteen years of…
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Regional Office, St. Petersburg, Florida (Agency) and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1594 (Union)
St. Petersburg VA and AFGE Local 1594 (FLRA 0-AR-5352): Performance-curve order narrowed
After a performance year ended, the St. Petersburg VA lowered the productivity threshold for an exceptional rating so that more employees could qualify. An employee who received a fully successful rating grieved both his own review and the agency's failure to bargain over the curve. An arbitrator…
Secretary of Labor v. Mach Mining, LLC
Chirp-alert citations vacated
MSHA found two inoperative visual and audible chirp alerts on high-voltage longwall equipment and cited Mach Mining under the weekly testing and examination standard. The inspector nevertheless testified that Mach had performed the required tests, and the Secretary offered no examination records or…
Secretary of Labor v. The American Coal Company
Tie left five special-assessment penalties standing
The American Coal Company challenged five penalties after an ALJ affirmed four roof-and-rib violations and one transportation-safeguard violation, all designated significant and substantial, and assessed $43,200 against MSHA's $69,608 special-assessment proposal. On the case's second Commission…
Matter of J. M. ACOSTA
Conviction finality requires direct appeal rights to be exhausted or waived
The Board reviewed a Dominican Republic respondent's removal order based in part on a New York drug conviction and his request to reopen the record after a state court allowed a late direct appeal. The Board held that a conviction does not become sufficiently final for immigration purposes until…
Jeanne Johnston (widow of Roy Johnston) v. Hayward Baker
Johnston v. Hayward Baker (BRB 18-0040): attorney fee rates remanded
Jeanne Johnston's counsel appealed an attorney fee award arising from her Longshore death benefits claim. The judge awarded counsel $351,565.86 in fees and costs but reduced the requested hourly rates and struck a supplemental fee request. The Board held that the judge needed to consider San Diego…
Randolph Large v. Consolidation Coal Company
Large v. Consolidation Coal (BRB 17-0586 BLA): benefits award affirmed
Consolidation Coal appealed an award of black lung benefits to Randolph Large. The judge credited thirteen and a half years of coal mine work and found clinical and legal pneumoconiosis, total respiratory disability, and a link between the disease and disability. The Board held that treatment…
Laurence E. Thibedeau v. SSA Pacific, Incorporated
Thibedeau v. SSA Pacific (BRB 17-0448): state guaranty association dismissal affirmed
Laurence Thibedeau's employer appealed the dismissal of the Oregon Insurance Guaranty Association from a dispute over reimbursement for hearing aids. The employer and its insurer had agreed in an earlier settlement to remain liable for medical benefits, but the insurer later became insolvent. The…
James R. Howton v. Chevron Mining, Incorporated
Howton v. Chevron Mining (BRB 17-0286 BLA): reconsideration denied and fee awarded
Chevron Mining asked the Board to reconsider its earlier decision in James Howton's black lung benefits case. No panel member voted to vacate or modify that decision, so the Board denied reconsideration. It also found that the employer had raised its challenge to the administrative law judge's…
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2328 (Union) and United States Department of Veterans Affairs, John J. Pershing VA Medical Center (Agency)
John J. Pershing VA and AFGE Local 2328 (FLRA 0-AR-5348): Temporary promotions denied
GS-4 and GS-5 medical support assistants at the John J. Pershing VA claimed temporary GS-6 promotions because they performed some higher-level duties. The agreement required performance of a higher position's grade-controlling duties, and an earlier national settlement identified membership on a…
Secretary of Labor v. R. J. McDonald, Inc.
Interlocutory settlement review denied
A Commission judge denied two proposed settlements because the Secretary had not supplied enough supporting information, then certified those rulings for interlocutory review. The proposed changes would have removed significant-and-substantial and unwarrantable-failure designations from one…
Secretary of Labor v. Pocahontas Coal Company, LLC
Appeal dismissed after review direction vacated
Pocahontas Coal petitioned for discretionary review of an ALJ summary decision involving a pattern-of-violations notice and related withdrawal orders at its Affinity Mine. After the Commission granted review, Pocahontas moved to withdraw its appeal and dismiss the proceedings. The Commission…
Dennis A. Ball v. G & A Coal Company, Incorporated
Ball v. G & A Coal (BRB 17-0631 BLA): disability finding sent back for review
Dennis Ball appealed the denial of black lung benefits without a lawyer. The judge credited 22 years of qualifying coal mine work and found that blood gas studies established total respiratory disability, but decided that other evidence outweighed them. The Board held that the judge had not…
Archie C. Runyon v. Kessler Coals, Incorporated
Runyon v. Kessler Coals (BRB 17-0549 BLA): benefits award affirmed
Kessler Coals and its insurer appealed an award of black lung benefits to Archie Runyon. The judge credited 22 years of qualifying coal mine work and found a totally disabling respiratory impairment, which invoked the fifteen-year presumption. The Board upheld the judge's reliance on medical…
John D. Ward, Jr. v. Consolidation Coal Company
Ward v. Consolidation Coal (BRB 17-0543 BLA): modification award vacated for new analysis
Consolidation Coal appealed a benefits award entered after John Ward requested modification of an earlier denial. The judge credited at least 31 years of qualifying coal mine work and found total respiratory disability, invoking the fifteen-year presumption. The Board held that the judge used the…
Barbara Ann Sammons (widow of Chester Sammons) v. Celtic Processing, Incorporated
Sammons v. Celtic Processing (BRB 17-0539 BLA): survivor benefits denial affirmed
Barbara Sammons sought survivor benefits after her husband, coal miner Chester Sammons, died. The employer conceded enough coal mine work and total disability to invoke a presumption that his death was due to pneumoconiosis. The judge nevertheless denied benefits after finding that the employer…
Janalle Vance (widow of Mose Vance) v. U.S. Steel Mining Company Alabama, LLC
Vance v. U.S. Steel Mining (BRB 17-0446 BLA): survivor benefits award affirmed
U.S. Steel Mining appealed an award of survivor benefits to Janalle Vance after modification of an earlier denial. The judge found that her husband had at least fifteen years of qualifying coal mine work and a totally disabling respiratory impairment, invoking the presumption that his death was due…
S.R. and Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Memphis, TN
Work incident established, injury claim denied
S.R., an FAA automation technology specialist, reported dizziness and abdominal symptoms while moving a monitor at work. A witness supported his account, and the Board found that the September 21, 2017 incident occurred. His physician noted blood in the urine but did not explain whether the lifting…
J.S. and U.S. Postal Service, Memphis Network Distribution Center, Memphis, TN
Work related back, hip, and shoulder conditions not established
J.S., a casual postal mail handler, attributed back, hip, and shoulder conditions to lifting, pulling, bending, and stooping at work. OWCP accepted those duties as factual. The Board found that her physicians did not adequately explain how those duties caused or aggravated the diagnosed conditions…
L.G. and Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Benefit termination reversed for inadequate medical reasoning
L.G., a VA employee, received wage loss and medical benefits for accepted back and knee injuries. OWCP ended those benefits after relying on an impartial examiner who concluded that the accepted injuries had resolved. The Board found his explanation vague and incomplete, particularly about ongoing…
W.G. and Department of the Navy, Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC
Wage earning capacity finding left in place
W.G., a former Navy welder with an accepted thumb and wrist injury, sought to change a 1998 loss of wage earning capacity finding based on mechanic work. The record showed that his mechanic job became a regular 40 hour position. A duplicate job description did not show an error in the old finding…
L.B. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Warminster, PA
Schedule award claim not reopened for review
L.B., a postal letter carrier, sought reconsideration of a schedule award for three percent right leg impairment after an accepted knee injury. Her argument about an additional lateral meniscus injury had already been considered. She also supplied no new medical evidence supporting greater…
United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (Agency) and National Treasury Employees Union, Local 21 (Union)
IRS and NTEU Local 21 (FLRA 0-AR-5293): Identity-theft realignment remedy vacated
The IRS centralized identity-theft specialists in a new subdivision under a negotiated realignment memorandum. One specialist sought to opt out, and the union identified a volunteer at the same grade with identity-theft experience to replace her. An arbitrator found that the memorandum and…
Daniel Napier v. Ikerd Bandy Company, Incorporated
Napier v. Ikerd Bandy (BRB 17-0517 BLA): benefits denial affirmed
Daniel Napier appealed a black lung benefits denial without a lawyer. The judge credited nearly 25 years of surface coal mine work but found too little detail about regular coal dust exposure to invoke the fifteen-year presumption. The judge found clinical pneumoconiosis and total respiratory…
Vonnie McIntosh (on behalf of and widow of James A. McIntosh) v. Keystone Coal Mining Corporation
McIntosh v. Keystone Coal Mining (BRB 17-0237 and 17-0315 BLA): miner and survivor awards affirmed
Keystone Coal Mining appealed two benefits awards arising from James McIntosh's black lung claim and his widow Vonnie McIntosh's survivor claim. The judge found that the miner had nearly 20 years of underground coal mine work and total respiratory disability, invoking the fifteen-year presumption…
L.B. and U.S. Postal Service, Lakeview Station, Chicago, IL
Knee disability recurrence and missed hearing rulings upheld
L.B., a postal employee with an accepted left knee contusion, claimed a recurrence of disability beginning June 14, 2017. The Board found that her medical evidence did not adequately connect the claimed disability to the accepted injury, and the osteoarthritis had not been accepted as work related…
J.S. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, White Plains, NY
Left knee claim lacked reasoned medical causation
J.S., a postal custodian, reported a left knee injury after a workplace incident that OWCP accepted as having occurred. His physician initially recorded right knee diagnoses despite examining the left knee and later identified a left meniscus tear. The Board found that the physician did not explain…
E.I. and U.S. Postal Service, Stonybrook Post Office, Stonybrook, NY
Right knee impairment claim returned for a proper rating
E.I., a postal letter carrier, challenged an eight percent right leg schedule award after accepted knee injuries. The Board found that OWCP’s medical adviser had not explained whether preexisting arthritis should count and had imposed a five millimeter ACL laxity threshold without citing the…
B.R. and U.S. Postal Service, Post Office, Cleveland Heights, OH
Ankle award denied without an impairment evaluation
B.R., a postal mail carrier, sought a schedule award after accepted left ankle and leg injuries from a fall during a dog attack. OWCP asked for a physician’s impairment evaluation, but he supplied none before the award denial. His later request for review of the written record was untimely, and…
What these documents are
- The agencies: Federal workers' compensation appeals from the Department of Labor's Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB), federal-sector labor-relations cases from the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), Longshore Act and Black Lung Benefits Act appeals from the Department of Labor's Benefits Review Board (BRB), precedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), environmental permit and penalty appeals from the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB), and whistleblower and other labor appeals from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Each decision page names its agency.
- Commission, Board and Authority decisions: Rulings by the agency's highest review level (the Commission at OSHRC and FMSHRC, the Authority at FLRA, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Administrative Review Board at Labor, and the Environmental Appeals Board at EPA). These are citable as precedent, though a decision may have been appealed to a U.S. Court of Appeals after issuance.
- ALJ decisions: Rulings by the agency's Administrative Law Judges after a hearing. When no Commissioner directs review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order that binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent: under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j) at OSHRC, and after the 40-day window of 30 U.S.C. § 823(d)(1) at FMSHRC.
- Why finality matters: Every page here says which kind of decision you are reading, so you know whether it is precedent you can cite or a final order that only shows how one judge ruled on one set of facts.
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