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Nancy J. Kessinger, Veterans Benefits
Administration (20M33), Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20420 or email to
nancy.kessinger@va.gov. Please refer to
‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0099’’ in any
correspondence. During the comment
period, comments may be viewed online
through the FDMS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy J. Kessinger at (202) 632–8924 or
FAX (202) 632–8925.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C.
3501–21), Federal agencies must obtain
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor.
This request for comment is being made
pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
PRA.
With respect to the following
collection of information, VBA invites
comments on: (1) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of VBA’s
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of VBA’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
the use of other forms of information
technology.
Title: Dependents’ Request for Change
of Program or Place of Training, VA
Form 22–5495.
OMB Control Number: 2900–0099.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: Spouses, surviving spouses,
and children who are eligible for
Survivor’s and Dependent’s Educational
Assistance (DEA) benefits under chapter
35, and children eligible for the Marine
Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry
Scholarship (Fry Scholarship) under
chapter 33, title 38, U.S. Code, complete
VA Form 22–5495 to change their
program of education or place of
training. VA uses the information
collected to determine if the new
program is suitable to their abilities,
aptitudes, and interest; and to verify the
new place of training is approved for
benefits.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Annual Burden: 36,038
hours.
Estimated Average Burden Per
Respondent: 15 minutes.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
144,333
By direction of the Secretary.
Kathleen M. Manwell,
Program Analyst, VA Privacy Service, Office
of Privacy and Records Management,
Department of Veterans Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
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Proposed Information Collection
(Requirement To Present Certain
Health Information for a Service Dog;
Activity: Comment Request
Veterans Health
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Veterans Health
Administration (VHA), Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on the
proposed collection of certain
information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, Federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information and allow 60 days for
public comment in response to the
notice. This notice solicits comments on
the information needed for Veterans,
Veteran Representatives and health care
providers to request reimbursement
from the federal government for
emergency services at a private
institution.
SUMMARY:
Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
collection of information should be
received on or before January 22, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the collection of information through
Federal Docket Management System
(FDMS) at www.Regulations.gov; or
Brian McCarthy, Office of Regulatory
and Administrative Affairs, Veterans
Health Administration (10B4),
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810
Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20420 or email: Brian.McCarthy4@
va.gov. Please refer to ‘‘Requirement to
Present Certain Health Information for a
Service Dog under 38 CFR 1.218(a)(11),
OMB Control No. 2900–NEW’’ in any
correspondence. During the comment
period, comments may be viewed online
through the FDMS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian McCarthy at (202) 461–6345.
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Under the
PRA of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C.
3501–3521), Federal agencies must
obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. This request for comment is
being made pursuant to Section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA.
With respect to the following
collection of information, VHA invites
comments on: (1) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of VHA’s
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of VHA’s estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
the use of other forms of information
technology.
Titles: Requirement to Present Certain
Health Information for a Service Dog
under 38 CFR 1.218(a)(11).
OMB Control Number: 2900–NEW.
Type of Review: New Collection
Request.
Abstract: Pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 901,
VA may prescribe rules to provide for
the maintenance of law and order and
the protection of persons and property
on VA property. VA implements this
authority in regulations at 38 CFR 1.218
pertaining to security and law
enforcement. This final rule will amend
§ 1.218(a)(11) to require VA facilities to
permit service animals on VA property
consistent with 40 U.S.C. 3103 (section
3103) and Public Law 112–154, § 109,
126 Stat. 1165 (2012) (section 109).
Section 3103(a) provides that guide dogs
or other service animals accompanying
individuals with disabilities and
especially trained for that purpose shall
be admitted to any building or other
property owned or controlled by the
Federal Government on the same terms
and conditions, and subject to the same
regulations, as generally govern the
admission of the public to the property.
Section 109 provides that VA
specifically may not prohibit the use of
a covered service dog in any VA facility,
on any VA property, or in any facility
or on any property that receives funding
from VA, and further defines a covered
service dog as a service dog that has
been trained by an entity that is
accredited by an appropriate accrediting
body that evaluates and accredits
organizations which train guide or
service dogs. Current 38 CFR
1.218(a)(11), however, reads that dogs
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and other animals, except seeing-eye
dogs, shall not be brought upon
property except as authorized by the
head of the facility or designee. Our
current regulation can be interpreted to
allow the head of a VA facility or
designee to bar access to all animals
other than seeing-eye dogs, which is
inconsistent with both section 3103(a)
and section 109. We therefore revise our
regulation to be consistent with the
requirements in section 3103(a) and
section 109. The collection associated
with this regulation revision only
applies to those service dogs that would
be staying on VA property with a
Veteran for extended periods of time
while that Veteran is being treated in a
residential treatment setting. This
collection is not associated with the
basic entry of a service dog generally on
VA property. This collection is also
associated with the entry of Animal
Assisted Therapy and Animal Assisted
Activity animals on VA property, and
residential animals on VA residential
units.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Estimated Annual Burden: 125
burden hours.
Estimated Average Burden per
Respondent: 5 minutes.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,500.
By direction of the Secretary.
Kathleen M. Manwell,
VA Privacy Service, Office of Privacy and
Records Management, Department of
Veterans Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
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Loan Guaranty: Net Value Percentage
Update
AGENCY:
Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA).
ACTION:
Notice.
This notice provides
information to lenders and mortgage
holders in the U.S. Department of
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Veterans Affairs (VA) home loan
guaranty program concerning the
percentage to be used in calculating the
purchase price of a property that
secured a terminated loan. The new
percentage is 15.95 percent.
DATES: The new percentage is effective
December 23, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrew Trevayne, Assistant Director for
Loan and Property Management,
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810
Vermont Ave. NW., Washington, DC
20420, (202) 632–8795 (not a toll-free
number).
The VA
home loan guaranty program,
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37,
offers a partial guaranty against loss to
loan holders who are the holders of
home loans to veterans. When a veteran
borrower defaults on a VA-guaranteed
loan, VA is obligated to pay a guaranty
claim to the loan holder. See 38 U.S.C.
3732. If the requirements of 38 U.S.C.
3732(c) are satisfied, a foreclosing loan
holder also has the option of conveying
a foreclosed property to VA.
Requirements related to conveyance of
properties are found at 38 CFR 36.4322
through 36.4326. A key component in
the conveyance of a property to VA is
the net value of the property to the
Government. Net value is prescribed in
38 U.S.C. 3732(c) and further defined at
38 CFR 36.4301.
Essentially, net value is the fair
market value of the property, minus the
total costs the Secretary estimates would
be incurred by VA resulting from the
acquisition and disposition of the
property for property operating
expenses, selling expenses, and
administrative cost. See 38 CFR
36.4301. The costs of acquisition and
disposition are represented by a
percentage that VA computes annually.
Id. VA refers to the computed
percentage as the cost factor. Id.
In computing the cost factor, VA
determines the average operating
expenses incurred for managing
properties that were sold during the
preceding fiscal year, as well as the
average administrative cost to VA
associated with the property
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management activity. The cost factor
calculation also includes an amount
equal to the gain or loss experienced by
VA on the resale of those properties. VA
annually analyzes its property
management results and computes a
new cost factor. The cost factor that is
applicable to program participants is the
cost factor most recently published in
the Notices section of the Federal
Register. See 38 CFR 36.4301.
The published cost factor remained
unchanged at 11.87 percent between
1999 and 2012, as VA was concerned
that a dramatic increase would have
caused risk-averse lenders to
significantly limit VA lending, impose
stricter credit overlays, or cease making
VA-guaranteed loans altogether. The net
effect would have diminished the ability
of veteran borrowers to use their VA
home loan guaranty benefit, and the nodownpayment option and foreclosureavoidance protections associated with
it.
As market conditions improved, and
in an effort to more closely reflect the
costs of real property disposition, VA
began a measured approach to
increasing the cost factor in FY 2012, by
raising it to 14.95 percent.
VA is continuing its measured
approach to align its published cost
factor with property disposition costs.
In order to more accurately reflect the
costs of acquiring, managing, and
reselling properties in the home loan
guaranty program, VA is revising the net
value cost factor to 15.95 percent.
Accordingly, the loan holder (or its
authorized servicing agent) will use a
15.95 percent cost factor to calculate the
subtraction from the fair market value to
arrive at the net value of the property
under the provisions of 38 CFR
36.4322(c). This revised cost factor will
be used in net value calculations made
by loan holders and servicers, beginning
on December 23, 2015.
Dated: November 18, 2015.
Jeffrey M. Martin,
Program Manager, Regulation Policy and
Management, Office of the General Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
[OMB Control No. 2900-NEW]
Proposed Information Collection (Requirement To Present Certain
Health Information for a Service Dog; Activity: Comment Request
AGENCY: Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an opportunity for public comment
on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are
required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information and allow 60 days for public comment
in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the
information needed for Veterans, Veteran Representatives and health
care providers to request reimbursement from the federal government for
emergency services at a private institution.
DATES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed collection
of information should be received on or before January 22, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on the collection of information
through Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at www.Regulations.gov;
or Brian McCarthy, Office of Regulatory and Administrative Affairs,
Veterans Health Administration (10B4), Department of Veterans Affairs,
810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20420 or email:
Brian.McCarthy4@va.gov. Please refer to ``Requirement to Present
Certain Health Information for a Service Dog under 38 CFR 1.218(a)(11),
OMB Control No. 2900-NEW'' in any correspondence. During the comment
period, comments may be viewed online through the FDMS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian McCarthy at (202) 461-6345.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13; 44
U.S.C. 3501-3521), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor. This request for comment is being
made pursuant to Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA.
With respect to the following collection of information, VHA
invites comments on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance of VHA's functions, including
whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy
of VHA's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or the use of other forms of
information technology.
Titles: Requirement to Present Certain Health Information for a
Service Dog under 38 CFR 1.218(a)(11).
OMB Control Number: 2900-NEW.
Type of Review: New Collection Request.
Abstract: Pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 901, VA may prescribe rules to
provide for the maintenance of law and order and the protection of
persons and property on VA property. VA implements this authority in
regulations at 38 CFR 1.218 pertaining to security and law enforcement.
This final rule will amend Sec. 1.218(a)(11) to require VA facilities
to permit service animals on VA property consistent with 40 U.S.C. 3103
(section 3103) and Public Law 112-154, Sec. 109, 126 Stat. 1165 (2012)
(section 109). Section 3103(a) provides that guide dogs or other
service animals accompanying individuals with disabilities and
especially trained for that purpose shall be admitted to any building
or other property owned or controlled by the Federal Government on the
same terms and conditions, and subject to the same regulations, as
generally govern the admission of the public to the property. Section
109 provides that VA specifically may not prohibit the use of a covered
service dog in any VA facility, on any VA property, or in any facility
or on any property that receives funding from VA, and further defines a
covered service dog as a service dog that has been trained by an entity
that is accredited by an appropriate accrediting body that evaluates
and accredits organizations which train guide or service dogs. Current
38 CFR 1.218(a)(11), however, reads that dogs
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and other animals, except seeing-eye dogs, shall not be brought upon
property except as authorized by the head of the facility or designee.
Our current regulation can be interpreted to allow the head of a VA
facility or designee to bar access to all animals other than seeing-eye
dogs, which is inconsistent with both section 3103(a) and section 109.
We therefore revise our regulation to be consistent with the
requirements in section 3103(a) and section 109. The collection
associated with this regulation revision only applies to those service
dogs that would be staying on VA property with a Veteran for extended
periods of time while that Veteran is being treated in a residential
treatment setting. This collection is not associated with the basic
entry of a service dog generally on VA property. This collection is
also associated with the entry of Animal Assisted Therapy and Animal
Assisted Activity animals on VA property, and residential animals on VA
residential units.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Estimated Annual Burden: 125 burden hours.
Estimated Average Burden per Respondent: 5 minutes.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,500.
By direction of the Secretary.
Kathleen M. Manwell,
VA Privacy Service, Office of Privacy and Records Management,
Department of Veterans Affairs.
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