# Prescriptions in Alaska and U.S. Territories and Possessions
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2016-07-18 · Effective 2016-08-17 · 81 FR 46601
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-16908
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 46601
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2016-07-18
- **Effective date:** 2016-08-17
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is removing its medical regulation that governs medications provided in Alaska and territories and possessions of the United States because this regulation is otherwise subsumed by another VA medical regulation related to provision of medications that are prescribed by non-VA providers.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/07/18/2016-16908/prescriptions-in-alaska-and-us-territories-and-possessions)
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