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such effect on State, local, and tribal
governments, or on the private sector.
Paperwork Reduction Act
Although this action contains
provisions constituting collections of
information at 38 CFR 38.628, under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3521), no
new collection of information is
associated with this final rule. This
rulemaking creates no change to the
annual PRA costs of the program. The
information collection requirements for
38 CFR 38.628 are currently approved
by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) and have been assigned
OMB control number 2900–0799. VA
made non-substantive text changes to an
existing form (VA40–10088) to reflect
programmatic updates that will not
affect the information collection burden
costs or create administrative costs
associated with this rulemaking.
Assistance Listing
The Assistance Listing number and
title for the programs affected by this
document is 64.205, VA Casket or Urn
Reimbursement Program.
Congressional Review Act
Pursuant to Congressional Review
Act) (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs
designated this rule as not a major rule,
as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 38
Administrative practice and
procedure, Cemeteries, Claims,
Veterans.
Signing Authority
Denis McDonough, Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, approved and signed
this document on May 3, 2023, and
authorized the undersigned to sign and
submit the document to the Office of the
Federal Register for publication
electronically as an official document of
the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Luvenia Potts,
Regulation Development Coordinator, Office
of Regulation Policy & Management, Office
of General Counsel, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
For the reasons stated in the
preamble, the Department of Veterans
Affairs amends 38 CFR part 38 as set
forth below:
PART 38—NATIONAL CEMETERIES
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
1. The authority citation for part 38
continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 38 U.S.C. 107, 501, 512, 2306,
2400, 2402, 2403, 2404, 2407, 2408, 2411,
7105.
of-living increases to the flat rate
allowances when the CPI has increased.
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2. Amend § 38.628 by revising the
section heading, the introductory text of
paragraphs (a) and (c), and paragraphs
(c)(1), (c)(5)(i), (d), and (e) to read as
follows:
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§ 38.628 Allowance for caskets and urns
for unclaimed remains of veterans.
(a) VA will issue a flat-rate allowance,
as established in paragraph (d) of this
section, to any individual or entity for
a casket or urn, purchased by the
individual or entity for the burial in a
national cemetery or in a veterans’
cemetery of a State or Tribal
Organization that has received a grant
under 38 U.S.C. 2408, of an eligible
deceased veteran for whom VA:
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(c) An individual or entity may
request an allowance from VA under
paragraph (a) of this section by
completing and submitting VA Form
40–10088 and supporting
documentation, in accordance with the
instructions on the form. Prior to
approving issuance of an allowance, VA
must find all of the following:
(1) The veteran is eligible for burial in
a VA national cemetery or in a veterans’
cemetery of a State or Tribal
Organization that has received a grant
under 38 U.S.C. 2408;
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(i) Caskets must be of metal
construction of at least 20-gauge
thickness, designed for containing
human remains, sufficient to contain the
remains of the deceased veteran, and
include external fixed rails or swing arm
handles.
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(d) The allowance for a claim received
in any calendar year under paragraph (a)
of this section is $1,199.00 for a metal
casket and $138.00 for an urn of durable
material.
(e) VA will make cost-of-living
adjustments for the flat-rate casket and
urn allowances using the Consumer
Price Index (CPI). Each fiscal year, VA
will provide a percentage increase
(rounded to the nearest dollar) in the
casket and urn flat-rate allowances
equal to the percentage by which the
CPI (all items, United States city
average) for the 12-month period (June
to June) preceding the beginning of the
fiscal year for which the percentage
increase is made exceeds the CPI for the
12-month period preceding the 12month period described in this
paragraph (e). VA will only make cost-
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 111
Priority Mail Express Refunds
Postal ServiceTM.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
The Postal Service is
amending Mailing Standards of the
United States Postal Service, Domestic
Mail Manual (DMM®) to discontinue
Priority Mail Express® postage refunds
for guaranteed service for Alaska and
Hawaii.
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Effective August 1, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Catherine Knox at (202) 268–5636 or
Garry Rodriguez at (202) 268–7281.
On May
23, 2023, the Postal Service published a
notice of proposed rulemaking (88 FR
33066) to discontinue Priority Mail
Express postage refunds for guaranteed
service for Alaska and Hawaii. The
Postal Service did not receive any
formal comments.
The Postal Service has determined
that operationally we cannot meet the
service commitments for Priority Mail
Express expected by customers for
Alaska and Hawaii.
As a result, the Postal Service is
discontinuing postage refunds for
guaranteed service for Priority Mail
Express pieces destined to or originating
from Alaska or Hawaii. Postage refunds
for loss will still be available for pieces
destined to or originating from Alaska or
Hawaii.
We believe this revision will provide
customers with a more efficient mailing
experience.
The Postal Service adopts the
described changes to Mailing Standards
of the United States Postal Service,
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM),
incorporated by reference in the Code of
Federal Regulations. We will publish an
appropriate amendment to 39 CFR part
111 to reflect these changes.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111
Administrative practice and
procedure, Postal Service.
Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is
amended as follows:
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PART 111—[AMENDED]
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
1. The authority citation for 39 CFR
part 111 continues to read as follows:
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40 CFR Part 52
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301–
307; 18 U.S.C. 1692–1737; 39 U.S.C. 101,
401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001–3011, 3201–
3219, 3403–3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632,
3633, and 5001.
2. Revise the Mailing Standards of the
United States Postal Service, Domestic
Mail Manual (DMM) as follows:
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Mailing Standards of the United States
Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual
(DMM)
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600 Basic Standards for All Mailing
Services
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604 Postage Payment Methods and
Refunds
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9.0
Exchanges and Refunds
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9.5 Priority Mail Express Postage and
Fees Refunds
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9.5.5 Refunds Not Given
Postage will not be refunded if the
guaranteed service was not provided
due to any of the following
circumstances:
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and add new item i to read as follows:]
i. The postage refund requested is
other than for loss, and the Priority Mail
Express piece was destined to or
originated from Alaska or Hawaii.
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Sarah Sullivan,
Attorney, Ethics & Legal Compliance.
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Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality
Management District
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is taking final action to
partially approve and partially
disapprove a revision to the Sacramento
Metropolitan Air Quality Management
District (SMAQMD) portion of the
California State Implementation Plan
(SIP). The revision concerns the
SMAQMD’s demonstration regarding
reasonably available control technology
(RACT) requirements and negative
declarations for the 2008 8-hour ozone
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS or ‘‘standards’’) in the portion
of the Sacramento Metropolitan
nonattainment area under the
jurisdiction of the SMAQMD. We are
also correcting sections in the Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) to reflect the
current status of certain provisions of
the SMAQMD portions of the California
SIP related to the 1997 8-hour ozone
NAAQS.
DATES: This rule is effective July 31,
2023.
ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a
docket for this action under Docket ID
No. EPA–R09–OAR–2023–0036. All
documents in the docket are listed on
the https://www.regulations.gov
website. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
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Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, is not placed on
the internet and will be publicly
available only in hard copy form.
Publicly available docket materials are
available through https://
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the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section for
additional availability information. If
you need assistance in a language other
than English or if you are a person with
a disability who needs a reasonable
accommodation at no cost to you, please
contact the person identified in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eugene Chen, EPA Region IX, 75
Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA
94105. By phone: (415) 947–4304 or by
email at chen.eugene@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’
and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA.
Table of Contents
I. Proposed Action
II. Public Comments and EPA Responses
III. EPA Action
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. Proposed Action
On April 5, 2023 (88 FR 20086), the
EPA proposed to partially approve and
partially disapprove the California Air
Resources Board’s (CARB) submittals of
the SMAQMD’s 2017 RACT SIP for the
2008 Ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS), as listed in
Table 1 below.
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Local agency
Document
SMAQMD ..........
Demonstration of Reasonably Available Control Technology for the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) (‘‘2017 RACT SIP’’).
We proposed to partially approve
SMAQMD’s 2017 RACT SIP and
negative declarations because we
determined that, except for the RACT
element for non-CTG major sources of
NOX, they complied with the relevant
CAA requirements. We proposed to
partially disapprove SMAQMD’s 2017
RACT SIP because several of the District
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rules relied upon to implement RACT
for non-CTG major sources of NOX
contain provisions that are not
consistent with EPA’s Startup,
Shutdown, and Malfunction (SSM)
Policy. District Rule 413 (Stationary Gas
Turbines) contains a provision that
explicitly exempts affected units from
complying with rule standards during
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periods of startup and shutdown and
does not provide for an alternative
emissions limitation during such
periods. District Rule 411 (NOX from
Boilers, Process Heaters, and Steam
Generators) and Rule 419 (NOX from
Miscellaneous Combustion Units) both
contain monitoring provisions that
preclude the use of specified data for
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[Rules and Regulations]
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[FR Doc No: 2023-13942]
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 111
Priority Mail Express Refunds
AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Postal Service is amending Mailing Standards of the United
States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) to
discontinue Priority Mail Express[supreg] postage refunds for
guaranteed service for Alaska and Hawaii.
DATES: Effective August 1, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catherine Knox at (202) 268-5636 or
Garry Rodriguez at (202) 268-7281.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 23, 2023, the Postal Service
published a notice of proposed rulemaking (88 FR 33066) to discontinue
Priority Mail Express postage refunds for guaranteed service for Alaska
and Hawaii. The Postal Service did not receive any formal comments.
The Postal Service has determined that operationally we cannot meet
the service commitments for Priority Mail Express expected by customers
for Alaska and Hawaii.
As a result, the Postal Service is discontinuing postage refunds
for guaranteed service for Priority Mail Express pieces destined to or
originating from Alaska or Hawaii. Postage refunds for loss will still
be available for pieces destined to or originating from Alaska or
Hawaii.
We believe this revision will provide customers with a more
efficient mailing experience.
The Postal Service adopts the described changes to Mailing
Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual
(DMM), incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations. We
will publish an appropriate amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to reflect
these changes.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111
Administrative practice and procedure, Postal Service.
Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is amended as follows:
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PART 111--[AMENDED]
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1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 111 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301-307; 18 U.S.C. 1692-
1737; 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001-3011, 3201-3219,
3403-3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632, 3633, and 5001.
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2. Revise the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) as follows:
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual (DMM)
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600 Basic Standards for All Mailing Services
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604 Postage Payment Methods and Refunds
* * * * *
9.0 Exchanges and Refunds
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9.5 Priority Mail Express Postage and Fees Refunds
* * * * *
9.5.5 Refunds Not Given
Postage will not be refunded if the guaranteed service was not
provided due to any of the following circumstances:
* * * * *
[Renumber items i and j as j and k, and add new item i to read as
follows:]
i. The postage refund requested is other than for loss, and the
Priority Mail Express piece was destined to or originated from Alaska
or Hawaii.
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Sarah Sullivan,
Attorney, Ethics & Legal Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2023-13942 Filed 6-29-23; 8:45 am]
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