Department of Veterans Affairs January 8, 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Veteran's Experience Office, 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, including each proposed non-substantive change request of a currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on 11 Information collections for the Veteran's Experience Agency Priority Goal, which specifies that four survey questions will be incorporated into existing customer experience surveys by Q1 FY2016. The information collected will be used by VA departmental leadership to track enterprise performance improvements as experienced by our Veterans. This notice will serve as notification for any future Non- substantive Change Information Collection Request adding these four customer service questions in the Information Collection Requests.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is updating the monetary reimbursement rates for caskets and urns purchased for the interment in a VA national cemetery of Veterans who die with no known next of kin and where there are insufficient resources for furnishing a burial container. The purpose of this notice is to notify interested parties of the rates that will apply to reimbursement claims that occur during calendar year (CY) 2016.