Notice2024-29110
Monetary Allowance for Outer Burial Receptacles
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Published
December 11, 2024
Effective
January 1, 2025
Issuing agencies
Veterans Affairs Department
Abstract
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing notice of the monetary allowance amount payable for outer burial receptacles (OBR) for qualifying interments in a VA national cemetery or in a VA grant-funded veterans cemetery that occur during calendar year (CY) 2025. The allowance is equal to the average cost of Government- furnished graveliners less any administrative costs associated with processing and paying the allowance. The purpose of this notice is to inform interested parties of the average cost of Government-furnished graveliners, associated administrative costs, and the allowance amount payable for qualifying interments that occur in CY 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 99964-99965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29110]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Monetary Allowance for Outer Burial Receptacles
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing notice of
the monetary allowance amount payable for outer burial receptacles
(OBR) for qualifying interments in a VA national cemetery or in a VA
grant-funded veterans cemetery that occur during calendar year (CY)
2025. The allowance is equal to the average cost of Government-
furnished graveliners less any administrative costs associated with
processing and paying the allowance. The purpose of this notice is to
inform interested parties of the average cost of Government-furnished
graveliners, associated administrative costs, and the allowance amount
payable for qualifying interments that occur in CY 2025.
DATES: This allowance amount is effective on January 1, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Carter, Chief of Budget
Execution Division, National Cemetery Administration, Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420,
telephone: 202-461-9764 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 2306(e) of title 38, United States
Code, authorizes VA to provide an OBR for each new grave used for
casketed remains in an open VA national cemetery or in a cemetery that
is the subject of a grant to a State or Tribal Organization under 38
U.S.C. 2408. Section 2306(e)(4) authorizes VA to administer this
benefit using a voucher system or other system of reimbursement in
situations where an OBR is purchased or provided in lieu of a
Government-furnished graveliner. VA administers the OBR monetary
allowance in accordance with 38 CFR 38.629, which specifies when
payment of the monetary allowance is authorized and how the allowance
amount is determined each year and requires VA to post the amount of
the allowance in the Notices section of the Federal Register. This
notice serves the purpose of meeting that requirement for CY 2025.
The allowance for qualified interments that occur during CY 2025 is
equal to the average cost of Government-furnished graveliners in fiscal
year (FY) 2024, less the administrative cost incurred by VA in
processing and paying the allowance in lieu of the Government-furnished
graveliner.
The average cost of Government-furnished graveliners is determined
by taking VA's total cost during a fiscal year for single-depth
graveliners that were procured for placement at the time of interment
and dividing it by the total number of such graveliners procured by VA
during that fiscal year. The calculation excludes both graveliners pre-
placed in gravesites as part of cemetery gravesite development projects
and all double-depth graveliners. Using this method of computation, the
average cost was determined to be $439.00 for FY 2024.
The administrative cost is based on the costs incurred by VA during
CY 2024 that relate to processing and paying an allowance in lieu of
the Government-furnished graveliner. This cost has been determined to
be $9.00.
The allowance payable for qualifying interments occurring during CY
2025, therefore, is $430.00.
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Signing Authority
Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved and signed
this document on December 5, 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. 2024-29110 Filed 12-10-24; 8:45 am]
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