Rule2021-19793
Nomenclature Change for Position Title
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Published
September 15, 2021
Effective
September 15, 2021
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
The Department of Veterans Affairs is amending its regulations to revise the title of the ``Director, Loan Guaranty Service'' to ``Executive Director, Loan Guaranty Service'' and to remove references to the position of ``Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Opportunity.'' These amendments reflect current agency organizational structure and are necessary to ensure consistency between the agency and its regulations.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 15, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 51274-51276]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19793]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
38 CFR Parts 8a and 36
RIN 2900-AR09
Nomenclature Change for Position Title
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs is amending its regulations
to revise the title of the ``Director, Loan Guaranty Service'' to
``Executive Director, Loan Guaranty Service'' and to remove references
to the position of ``Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Opportunity.''
These amendments reflect current agency organizational structure and
are necessary to ensure consistency between the agency and its
regulations.
DATES: This rule is effective September 15, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Li, Chief of Regulations,
Loan Guaranty Service, (26A), Veterans Benefits Administration,
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20420, (202) 632-8862. (This is not a toll-free telephone number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A number of VA regulations reference the
``Director, Loan Guaranty Service'', but the title for this position
has been amended from ``Director, Loan Guaranty Service'' to
``Executive Director, Loan Guaranty Service.'' Also, certain VA
regulations reference the ``Deputy Under Secretary for Economic
Opportunity,'' but that position has been eliminated within the
Veterans Benefits Administration. To ensure accuracy and consistency
between the agency and its regulations, this final rule revises VA
regulations to reflect this nomenclature change and organizational
structure.
Additionally, VA notes that there is a technical drafting error at
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Sec. 36.4345(b)(1) in which paragraph level (iv) is used twice. This
final rule corrects that error.
Administrative Procedure Act
This final rule concerns only agency organization, procedure, or
practice and, therefore, is not subject to the notice and comment
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 553(b). See 38 U.S.C. 553(b)(A). Specifically,
this final rule consists of amendments reflecting agency organization,
revising the title of one position and removing the reference to
another eliminated position. VA has also determined that there is good
cause to make this final rule effective on the date of publication
under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3). As the agency has already adapted to the
above noted organizational amendments, delaying the effective date is
unnecessary.
Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 direct agencies to assess the
costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, when
regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize
net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public
health and safety effects, and other advantages; distributive impacts;
and equity). Executive Order 13563 (Improving Regulation and Regulatory
Review) emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and
benefits, reducing costs, harmonizing rules, and promoting flexibility.
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has determined that
this rule is not a significant regulatory action under Executive Order
12866. The Regulatory Impact Analysis associated with this rulemaking
can be found as a supporting document at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq. (RFA), imposes
certain requirements on Federal agency rules that are subject to the
notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act
(APA), 5 U.S.C. 553(b). This final rule pertains to agency
organization, which the APA expressly exempts from notice and comment
rulemaking requirements under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A). Therefore, the
requirements of the RFA applicable to notice and comment rulemaking do
not apply to this rule. Accordingly, the Department is not required
either to certify that the final rule would not have a significant
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities or to conduct
a regulatory flexibility analysis.
Unfunded Mandates
The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 requires, at 2 U.S.C.
1532, that agencies prepare an assessment of anticipated costs and
benefits before issuing any rule that may result in the expenditure by
State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the
private sector, of $100 million or more (adjusted annually for
inflation) in any one year. This final rule will have no such effect on
State, local, and tribal governments, or on the private sector.
Paperwork Reduction Act
This final rule contains no provisions constituting a collection of
information under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-
3521).
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance numbers and titles for
the programs affected by this document are 64.106, Specially Adapted
Housing For Disabled Veterans; 64.114, Veterans Housing Guaranteed and
Insured Loans; 64.118, Veterans Housing Direct Loans for Certain
Disabled Veterans; and 64.126, Native American Veteran Direct Loan
Program.
Congressional Review Act
Pursuant to Subtitle E of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement
Fairness Act of 1996 (known as the Congressional Review Act) (5 U.S.C.
801 et seq.), the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
designated this rule as not a major rule, as defined by 5 U.S.C.
804(2).
List of Subjects
38 CFR Part 8a
Life insurance, Mortgage insurance, Veterans.
38 CFR Part 36
Condominiums, Housing, Individuals with disabilities, Loan
programs--housing and community development, Loan programs--Indians,
Loan programs--veterans, Manufactured homes, Mortgage insurance,
Veterans.
Signing Authority
Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved this
document on September 2, 2021, and authorized the undersigned to sign
and submit the document to the Office of the Federal Register for
publication electronically as an official document of the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
Luvenia Potts,
Regulation Development Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy &
Management, Office of General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs.
For the reasons stated in the preamble, the Department of Veterans
Affairs amends 38 CFR parts 8a and 36 as set forth below:
PART 8A--VETERANS MORTGAGE LIFE INSURANCE
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1. The authority citation for part 8a continues to read as follows:
Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, and 2101 through 2016, unless
otherwise noted.
Sec. 8a.1 [Amended]
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2. In Sec. 8a.1 amend paragraph (e)(3) by removing the words
``Director, Loan Guaranty Service'' and adding, in their place, the
words ``Executive Director, Loan Guaranty Service''.
PART 36--LOAN GUARANTY
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3. The authority citation for part 36 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501 and 3720.
PART 36 [Amended]
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4. Amend part 36 by removing the words ``Director, Loan Guaranty
Service'' wherever they appear, and adding, in their place, the words
``Executive Director, Loan Guaranty Service''.
Sec. 36.4221 [Amended]
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5. In Sec. 36.4221 amend paragraph (d) by removing the word
``Director'' and adding, in its place, the words ``Director or
Executive Director''.
Sec. 36.4345 [Amended]
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6. Amend Sec. 36.4345 by:
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a. Removing paragraph (b)(1)(iii);
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b. Redesignating the first paragraph (b)(1)(iv) as paragraph
(b)(1)(iii);
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c. Removing the word ``Director'' in paragraph (d), and adding, in its
place, the words ``Director or Executive Director''; and
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d. In paragraphs (e)(3) and (f)(3) removing the words ``Office of the
Director of VA Loan Guaranty Service'' and adding, in their place, the
words ``Office of the Executive Director, Loan Guaranty Service''.
Sec. 36.4412 [Amended]
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7. Amend Sec. 36.4412 by:
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a. Removing paragraph (i)(1)(ii); and
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b. Redesignating paragraphs (i)(1)(iii) and (iv) as paragraphs
(i)(1)(ii) and (iii), respectively.
Sec. 36.4520 [Amended]
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8. In Sec. 36.4520 by amend paragraph (d), removing the word
``Director'' and adding, in its place, the words ``Director or
Executive Director''.
Sec. 36.4527 [Amended]
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9. In Sec. 36.4527 amend paragraph (j)(4) by removing the word
``Director'' and adding, in its place, the words ``Director or
Executive Director''.
[FR Doc. 2021-19793 Filed 9-14-21; 8:45 am]
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