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                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 98-2117



                     NATIVIDAD MERCADO AYALA,



                      Plaintiff, Appellant,



                                v.



                 KENNETH S. APFEL, COMMISSIONER,

                 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION,



                       Defendant, Appellee.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO



        [Hon. Carmen Consuelo Cerezo, U.S. District Judge]







                              Before



                      Selya, Circuit Judge,

                 Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge,

                   and Stahl, Circuit Judge.

                                

                                

                                

                                

     Salvador Medina De La Cruz on brief for appellant.

     Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Lilliam Mendoza Toro,

Assistant U.S. Attorney, and Robert M. Peckrill, Assistant Regional

Counsel, Social Security Administration, on brief for appellee.











MAY 4, 1999







                                

            Per Curiam.     Claimant Natividad Mercado Ayala

  appeals from the judgment of the district court which

  determined that the decision of the Commissioner of Social

  Security that claimant was not under a disability was supported

  by substantial evidence.  After carefully reviewing the

  parties' briefs and the record, we affirm the judgment of the

  district court for essentially the reasons stated in its

  Judgment, dated July 15, 1998.

            Affirmed.  See Local Rule 27.1. 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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