Notice2024-00576
Scoping Notice for Preparation of a Programmatic Environmental Assessment for the State Veterans Homes Program
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Published
January 12, 2024
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) in accordance with the regulations implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality regulations, and VA's NEPA Implementing Regulations.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 9 (Friday, January 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2479-2480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00576]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Scoping Notice for Preparation of a Programmatic Environmental
Assessment for the State Veterans Homes Program
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing a programmatic
environmental assessment (PEA) in accordance with the regulations
implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 as implemented by the Council on
Environmental Quality regulations, and VA's NEPA Implementing
Regulations.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted through <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
Except as noted in this section, comments received before the close of
the comment period will be available at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> for public
viewing, inspection, or copying, including any personally identifiable
or confidential business information that is included in a comment. We
post the comments received before the close of the comment period on
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> as soon as possible after they have been received.
VA will not post on <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a> public comments that make threats
to individuals or institutions or suggest that the commenter will take
actions to harm the individual. VA encourages individuals not to submit
duplicative comments; however, we will post acceptable comments from
multiple unique commenters even if the content is identical or nearly
identical to other comments. Any public comment received after the
comment period's closing date is considered late and will not be
considered.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jason Sturm, Environmental
Engineer, Office of Construction & Facilities Management (003C2),
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington DC
20420, 224-628-1946 (this is not a toll-free number),
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#327853415d5c1c614647405f7244531c555d44"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f6bc97859998d8a58283849bb68097d8919980">[email protected]</span></a>. Reference ``State Veterans Homes PEA'' in your
correspondence.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The VA State Veterans Homes Construction
Grant Program is a partnership between VA and the states by which VA
provides full or partial grants to a state for construction,
renovation, or repair of state-owned and operated nursing homes,
domiciliaries, and/or adult day health care facilities. The PEA will
evaluate VA's proposed Action to issue grants through the VA State
Veterans Homes Construction Grant Program to its state partners for
construction, renovation, or repair of State Veterans Homes facilities
in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Tribal Lands. The PEA aims to
provide a streamlined NEPA compliance process for future VA State
Veterans Homes Construction Grant Program grants involving
construction, renovation, and repair projects that would result in less
than significant environmental impacts.
This notice initiates the scoping process for the PEA and invites
the public, government agencies, and other interested persons and
organizations to provide comments on the scope of
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issues for analysis, input on potential alternatives, or information/
analyses relevant to the proposed action.
Use of the PEA would decrease the time and cost associated with
having to prepare stand-alone NEPA documentation for those future VA
State Veterans Homes Construction Grant Program projects that would
meet the conditions of the PEA. VA would complete additional NEPA
compliance as required on projects outside the parameters of the PEA.
The grant program assists in providing eligible Veterans and their
families high- quality, long-term domiciliary, nursing, adult day
health, and hospital care services in a comfortable setting. The
proposed action is needed to provide sufficient capacity to meet the
increasing health care needs of eligible Veterans.
The PEA will evaluate the potential direct and indirect impacts on
the human environment from the proposed action and alternatives. VA
anticipates releasing the Draft PEA for a 30-day public review and
comment period later in CY 2024. VA will notify stakeholders via email/
mail, publish a notice of availability of the Draft PEA in the Federal
Register, and solicit comments at that time. Once the Draft PEA is
released it will be available for review via the VA website:
<a href="http://www.cfm.va.gov/environmental/">www.cfm.va.gov/environmental/</a>.
Signing Authority
Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved and signed
this document on January 4, 2024, 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 the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2024-00576 Filed 1-11-24; 8:45 am]
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