Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Impairments of the Digestive System

We are reopening for limited purposes the comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that we published in the Federal Register on November 14, 2001 (66 FR 57009). We have decided to reopen the comment period for 60 days to solicit additional public comments on our proposal to revise and remove several of the chronic liver disease listings from the Listing of Impairments (the listings) because we believe that the revisions we propose are significant. We are reopening the comment period only to accept comments about chronic liver disease. Due to the limited reopening of the NPRM, we will not consider any comments on other aspects of the proposed listings for the digestive system.