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23 February 2007
[Federal Register: February 23, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 36)]
[Notices]
[Page 8256]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr23fe07-128]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Allowance for Private Purchase of an Outer Burial Receptacle in
Lieu of a Government-Furnished Graveliner for a Grave in a VA National
Cemetery; Republication
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice; republication.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans (VA) is republishing this notice
due to an administrative error in the published version. This notice
replaces the notice that was published February 15, 2007 at 72 FR 7513.
Public Law 104-275 was enacted on October 9, 1996. It allows the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide a monetary allowance
towards the private purchase of an outer burial receptacle for use in a
VA national cemetery. Under VA regulation (38 CFR 38.629), the
allowance is equal to the average cost of Government-furnished
graveliners less any administrative costs to VA. The law provides a
veteran's survivors with the option of selecting a Government-furnished
graveliner for use in a VA national cemetery where such use is
authorized.
The purpose of this Notice is to notify interested parties of the
average cost of Government-furnished graveliners, administrative costs
that relate to processing and paying the allowance, and the amount of
the allowance payable for qualifying interments that occur during
calendar year 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl Lockamy, Budget Operations and
Field Support (41B1C), National Cemetery Administration, Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420.
Telephone: 202-273-5162 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 38 U.S.C. 2306(e)(3) and (4) and
Public Law 104-275, Section 213, VA may provide a monetary allowance
for the private purchase of an outer burial receptacle for use in a VA
national cemetery where its use is authorized. The allowance for
qualified interments that occur during calendar year 2007 is the
average cost of Government-furnished graveliners in fiscal year 2006,
less the administrative costs 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
procured and 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 $197.67
for fiscal year 2006.
The administrative costs incurred by VA consist of those costs that
relate to processing and paying an allowance in lieu of the Government-
furnished graveliner. These costs have been determined to be $9.00 for
calendar year 2007.
The allowance payable for qualifying interments occurring during
calendar year 2007, therefore, is $188.67.
Approved: February 9, 2007.
Gordon H. Mansfield,
Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. E7-3136 Filed 2-22-07; 8:45 am]
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