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VA RIN: 2900-AQ36 Publication ID: Spring 2018 
Title: ●Prohibition of Interment or Memorialization of Persons Convicted of Federal or State Capital Crimes or Certain Sex Offenses 
Abstract:

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemetery Administration (NCA) amends its national cemetery regulations prohibiting the interment or memorialization of certain persons who have been convicted of Federal or State capital crimes. This final rule also incorporates the statutory proscription against interment in a VA national cemetery or VA-funded State veterans’ cemeteries or memorialization in a VA national cemetery of a person who has been convicted of a Federal or State crime causing the person to be a tier III sex offender for purposes of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act; who, for such crime, has been sentenced to a minimum of life imprisonment; and whose conviction is final (other than a person whose sentence was commuted).

 
Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs(VA)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
EO 13771 Designation: Not subject to, not significant 
CFR Citation: 38 CFR 38.617    38 CFR 38.618    38 CFR 39.10   
Legal Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501    38 U.S.C. 2411(b)(4)   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  11/00/2018 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Eric Powell
Acting Director
Department of Veterans Affairs
Memorial Programs Service (41B), 810 Vermont Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20420
Phone:202 632-8670