2900-AS17 202410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 2900 Department of Veterans Affairs VA Legal Services for Veterans – Legal Assistance for Access to VA Programs Grant Program

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amend its regulations to implement a new authority requiring VA to establish a pilot program to assess the feasibility of awarding grants to eligible entities to establish new legal assistance clinics or enhance existing legal assistance clinics and pro bono efforts to provide certain legal assistance to veterans and individuals who served in the Armed Forces. This rulemaking provides grant program eligibility criteria, application requirements, scoring criteria, constraints on the allocation and use of grant funds, and other requirements necessary to implement the grant program.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage No No 38 CFR 81.0 38 CFR 81.5 38 CFR 79.5 38 U.S.C. 101(2) No NPRM 10/02/2024 89 FR 80172 NPRM Comment Period End 12/02/2024 Final Action To Be Determined No No None No No www.regulations.gov No No Madolyn Gingell National Coordinator, Legal Services for Veterans, Veterans Justice Programs, Clinical Services 2900 Department of Veterans Affairs VA 239 223-4681 madolyn.gingell@va.gov 810 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington DC 20420