The Department of the Army is modifying its regulation concerning Arlington National Cemetery. Army Regulation 290-5 states the authority and assigns the responsibilities for the development, operation, maintenance, and administration of the Arlington and the U.S. Soldier's and Airmen's Home National Cemeteries, civil works activities of the Department of the Army. The regulation further prescribes policies and procedures on eligibility for interment, inurnment, and memorialization; disinterments and disinurnments; the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater; solicitations; headstones, niche covers, and memorial markers; memorial and commemorative monuments; tributes to commemorate individuals, events, units, groups, and/or organizations; and visitors, media and videographer rules. Due to extensive changes to the rule, a second proposed rule will be published. 

The revisions to this rule will be reported in future status updates as part of DoD's retrospective plan under Executive Order 13563, completed in August 2011. DoD's full plan can be accessed at: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=DOD-2011-OS-0036.