Rule2023-14517
Names for National Cemeteries and Features
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Published
July 12, 2023
Effective
August 11, 2023
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is removing its regulation concerning the naming of cemeteries and features because, after reviewing internal policy and processes, VA determined this regulation is obsolete and unnecessary.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 44219-44220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14517]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
38 CFR Part 38
RIN 2900-AR81
Names for National Cemeteries and Features
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is removing its
regulation concerning the naming of cemeteries and features because,
after reviewing internal policy and processes, VA determined this
regulation is obsolete and unnecessary.
DATES: Effective Date: This rule is effective August 11, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michelle Myers, Management and Program
Analyst, Legislative and Regulatory Service (42E), National Cemetery
Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20420. Telephone: (202) 717-2979 (this is not a toll-
free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 22, 2023, VA published a proposed
rule in the Federal Register (88 FR 17169) that proposed to remove its
regulation concerning the naming of cemeteries and features. The public
comment period ended on May 22, 2023, and VA received no comments in
response to the proposed rule. Since there were no comments, VA is
removing 38 CFR 38.602.
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Executive Orders 12866, 13563 and 14904
Executive Order 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review) directs
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. Executive Order 14094 (Executive Order on
Modernizing Regulatory Review) supplements and reaffirms the
principles, structures, and definitions governing contemporary
regulatory review established in Executive Order 12866 of September 30,
1993 (Regulatory Planning and Review), and Executive Order 13563 of
January 18, 2011 (Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review). The
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has determined that this
rulemaking is not a significant regulatory action under Executive Order
12866, as amended by Executive Order 14094. 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 Secretary hereby certifies that this final rule will not have a
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities
as they are defined in the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601-
612). The factual basis for this certification is that the naming of
national cemeteries and features is an internal operations function
that only affects VA national cemeteries and did not require a
regulation to effectuate. This rule revokes the existing regulation and
will have no economic impact on small entities. Therefore, pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 605(b), the initial and final regulatory flexibility analysis
requirements of 5 U.S.C. 603 and 604 do not apply.
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).
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.
Congressional Review Act
Pursuant to 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 in 38 CFR Part 38
Administrative practice and procedure, Cemeteries, Veterans.
Signing Authority
Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved and signed
this document on July 3, 2023, 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.
Jeffrey M. Martin,
Assistant Director, Office of Regulation Policy & Management, Office of
General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs.
For the reasons stated in the preamble, and under the authority of
38 U.S.C. 501, the Department of Veterans Affairs amends 38 CFR part 38
as follows:
PART 38--NATIONAL CEMETERIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
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1. The authority citation for part 38 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 38 U.S.C. 107, 501, 512, 2306, 2400, 2402, 2403,
2404, 2407, 2408, 2411, 7105.
Sec. 38.602 [Removed]
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2. Remove Sec. 38.602.
[FR Doc. 2023-14517 Filed 7-11-23; 8:45 am]
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