diff --git a/beacon-chain/state/stateutil/attestations.go b/beacon-chain/state/stateutil/attestations.go
index a7233d098..8ebd0640c 100644
--- a/beacon-chain/state/stateutil/attestations.go
+++ b/beacon-chain/state/stateutil/attestations.go
@@ -8,22 +8,11 @@ import (
 	ethpb "github.com/prysmaticlabs/ethereumapis/eth/v1alpha1"
 	pb "github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/proto/beacon/p2p/v1"
 	"github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/shared/bytesutil"
-	"github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/shared/featureconfig"
 	"github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/shared/hashutil"
 	"github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/shared/htrutils"
 	"github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/shared/params"
 )
 
-// EpochAttestationsRoot computes the HashTreeRoot Merkleization of
-// a list of pending attestation values according to the eth2
-// Simple Serialize specification.
-func EpochAttestationsRoot(atts []*pb.PendingAttestation) ([32]byte, error) {
-	if featureconfig.Get().EnableSSZCache {
-		return cachedHasher.epochAttestationsRoot(atts)
-	}
-	return nocachedHasher.epochAttestationsRoot(atts)
-}
-
 // PendingAttestationRoot describes a method from which the hash tree root
 // of a pending attestation is returned.
 func PendingAttestationRoot(hasher htrutils.HashFn, att *pb.PendingAttestation) ([32]byte, error) {