Rule2023-04144
Program for the Repayment of Educational Loans, Urgent Care, and Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program
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Published
March 2, 2023
Effective
March 2, 2023
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
This final rule will revise the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations that govern the Program for the Repayment of Educational Loans (PREL) and Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program (SELRP) by adding the Office of Management and Budget approval number for the associated collections of information. VA is also making technical corrections to its regulation that governs VA's urgent care benefit.
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<body><pre>[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 41 (Thursday, March 2, 2023)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 13033-13034]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04144]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
38 CFR Part 17
RIN 2900-AP57, AQ47, AQ63
Program for the Repayment of Educational Loans, Urgent Care, and
Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Correcting amendment.
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SUMMARY: This final rule will revise the Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) regulations that govern the Program for the Repayment of
Educational Loans (PREL) and Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program
(SELRP) by adding the Office of Management and Budget approval number
for the associated collections of information. VA is also making
technical corrections to its regulation that governs VA's urgent care
benefit.
DATES: Section 17.644 of title 38, published at 81 FR 66815 on
September 29, 2016, is effective March 2, 2023. This final rule is
effective March 2, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ethan Kalett, Office of Regulations,
Appeals, and Policy, Veterans Health Administration, Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420, (202)
461-7633. (This is not a toll free number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Revisions to Sec. Sec. 17.528 and 17.643 of Title 38, Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR)
In a final rule published in the Federal Register (FR) on September
29, 2016, VA added new regulations for the PREL, a program in which VA
repays educational loans to individuals who pursued a program of study
leading to a degree in psychiatric medicine and who are seeking
employment in VA. See 81 FR 66815. In a separate final rule
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published in the FR on July 29, 2020, VA also added to new regulations
for the SELRP, a program which serves as an incentive for physicians
starting or currently in residency programs in medical specialties, for
which VA has determined that recruitment and retention of qualified
personnel is difficult, to work at VA facilities that need more
physicians within that medical specialty after the individual completes
their residency program. See 85 FR 45532.
Both of those rulemakings contained provisions constituting
collections of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507). See 38 CFR 17.528 and 17.643. The Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 requires that VA consider the impact of paperwork
and other information collection burdens imposed on the public. Under
44 U.S.C. 3507(a), an agency may not collect or sponsor the collection
of information, nor may it impose an information collection requirement
unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number. See also 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3)(vi). As required by
44 U.S.C. 3507(d), VA submitted the information collections associated
with Sec. Sec. 17.528 and 17.643 to OMB for its review. After both
final rules were published, these information collections were approved
by OMB and assigned OMB control number 2900-0879. This document revises
Sec. Sec. 17.528 and 17.643 by adding the approved OMB control number
at the end of each of those sections.
Revisions to 38 CFR 17.4600
In a document published in the FR on June 5, 2019, VA amended its
medical regulations by granting eligible veterans access to urgent care
from qualifying non-VA entities or providers without prior approval
from VA. 84 FR 25998. Current paragraphs (c)(1)(i)(A) and (B) of Sec.
17.4600 were incorrectly numbered as they should have been designated
as paragraphs (c)(1)(i) and (ii), respectively. We are now revising
Sec. 17.4600 to correct the numbering of paragraph (c)(1) with no
substantive changes to the regulation text.
List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 17
Administrative practice and procedure, Claims, Dental health,
Government contracts, Health care, Health facilities, Health
professions, Health records, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements,
Scholarships and fellowships, Travel and transportation expenses,
Veterans.
Consuela Benjamin,
Regulations Development Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy &
Management, Office of General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Department of
Veterans Affairs amends 38 CFR part 17 as follows:
PART 17--MEDICAL
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1. The authority citation for part 17 continues to read in part as
follows:
Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, and as noted in specific sections.
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2. Amend Sec. 17.528 by revising the parenthetical information
collection sentence at the end of the section to read as follows:
Sec. 17.528 Application.
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(The Office of Management and Budget has approved the information
collection requirement in this section under control number 2900-0879.)
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3. Amend Sec. 17.643 by adding a parenthetical information collection
sentence at the end of the section to read as follows:
Sec. 17.643 Application for the PREL.
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(The Office of Management and Budget has approved the information
collection requirement in this section under control number 2900-
0879.).
Sec. 17.4600 [Amended]
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4. Amend Sec. 17.4600 by redesignating paragraphs (c)(1)(i)(A) and (B)
as paragraphs (c)(1)(i) and (ii).
[FR Doc. 2023-04144 Filed 3-1-23; 8:45 am]
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