Volume II houses desk reference guides in numbered parts.
Parts 1, 2, and 3 were left undesignated. We have removed them from
the numbering system. Part 6 - Appeals Text Guide contains information
that is now obsolete. Standardized notice language and instructions
for preparing notices are now located in the Document Generation
System (DGS). Therefore, Part 6 is deleted from HALLEX, without
replacement. The remaining parts are:
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Part 4 - Preambles
to Selected Regulations — This part contains preambles
to selected regulations having significant impact on the Office of
Hearings Operations (OHO) or the Office of Appellate Operations (OAO) in
the Office of Analytics, Review, and Oversight (OARO). Because
preamble information contained in final regulations published in the Federal Register, beginning with
Volume 59 (1994), is available through the internet from the Government
Printing Office website (
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=FR/),
we will not issue further transmittals for Volume II, Part 4.
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Part 5 - Appeals Council Interpretations (ACI) — ACIs
are designed to surface and resolve issues arising from gaps in
policy or unclear statements of policy, promote greater consistency
and uniformity in applying policy throughout the adjudicatory process,
and establish precedents at the hearings and appeals levels of adjudication.