the Board did not find that the evidence was in equipoise but instead found that the preponderance of the evidence did not support an entitlement for service connection for appellant’s back, hip, and sacroiliac condition. As noted above, the Court found that that determination was not clearly erroneous. Therefore, the Board did not err in connection with the benefit of the doubt doctrine. See McGrath v. Gober, 14 Vet.App. 28, 34 (2000); Schoolman v. West, 12 Vet.App. 307, 311 (1999). B. The Veterans Claims Assistance Act Among other things, the VCAA, enacted November 9, 2000, eliminated the well-grounded-claim requirement and modified the Secretary’s duties to notify and assist claimants. See generally VCAA, §§ 3, 4, 7; see also Holliday v. Principi, 14 Vet.App. 280, 284-86 (2001) (<HOLDING>). This Court has held, however, that the
holding that the act is retroactive holding all sections of vcaa retroactive holding inter alia that all provisions of vcaa were retroactively applicable to claims pending at time of enactment of vcaa holding that the act is not retroactive holding retroactive application