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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

The Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance numbers and titles for the 

programs affected by this document are 

64.109, Veterans Compensation for 

Service-Connected Disability; 64.110, 

Veterans Dependency and Indemnity 

Compensation for Service-Connected 

Death. 

Signing Authority 

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or 

designee, approved this document 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. Gina 

S. Farrisee, Deputy Chief of Staff, 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 

approved this document on August 30, 

2016, for publication. 

Dated: September 1, 2016. 

Michael Shores, 

Acting Director, Regulation Policy & 

Management, Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 3 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Claims, Disability benefits, 

Veterans. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, the Department of Veterans 

Affairs proposes to amend 38 CFR part 

3 as follows: 

PART 3—ADJUDICATION 

Subpart A—Pension, Compensation, 

and Dependency and Indemnity 

Compensation 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 3, 

subpart A continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), unless 

otherwise noted. 

■ 2. Amend § 3.307 by revising the 

section heading and paragraphs (a) 

introductory text and (a)(1), and adding 

paragraph (a)(7) to read as follows: 

§ 3.307 Presumptive service connection 

for chronic, tropical or prisoner-of-war 

related disease, disease associated with 

exposure to certain herbicide agents, or 

disease associated with contaminants in 

the water supply at Camp Lejeune; wartime 

and service on or after January 1, 1947. 

(a) General. A chronic, tropical, 

prisoner of war related disease, a 

disease associated with exposure to 

certain herbicide agents, or a disease 

associated with contaminants in the 

water supply at Camp Lejeune listed in 

§ 3.309 will be considered to have been 

incurred in or aggravated by service 

under the circumstances outlined in this 

section even though there is no 

evidence of such disease during the 

period of service. No condition other 

than one listed in § 3.309(a) will be 

considered chronic. 

(1) Service. The veteran must have 

served 90 days or more during a war 

period or after December 31, 1946. The 

requirement of 90 days’ service means 

active, continuous service within or 

extending into or beyond a war period, 

or which began before and extended 

beyond December 31, 1946, or began 

after that date. Any period of service is 

sufficient for the purpose of establishing 

the presumptive service connection of a 

specified disease under the conditions 

listed in § 3.309(c) and (e). Any period 

of service is sufficient for the purpose of 

establishing the presumptive service 

connection of a specified disease under 

the conditions listed in § 3.309(f), as 

long as the period of service also 

satisfies the requirements to establish a 

presumption of exposure to 

contaminants in the water supply at 

Camp Lejeune under paragraph 

(a)(7)(iii) of this section. 

* * * * * 

(7) Diseases associated with exposure 

to contaminants in the water supply at 

Camp Lejeune. (i) For the purposes of 

this section, contaminants in the water 

supply means the volatile organic 

compounds trichloroethylene (TCE), 

perchloroethylene (PCE), benzene and 

vinyl chloride, that were in the on-base 

water-supply systems located at United 

States Marine Corps Base Camp 

Lejeune, during the period beginning on 

August 1, 1953, and ending on 

December 31, 1987. 

(ii) The diseases listed in § 3.309(f) 

shall have become manifest to a degree 

of 10 percent or more at any time after 

service. 

(iii) A veteran, or former reservist or 

member of the National Guard, who had 

no less than 30 days (consecutive or 

nonconsecutive) of service at Camp 

Lejeune during the period beginning on 

August 1, 1953, and ending on 

December 31, 1987, shall be presumed 

to have been exposed during such 

service to the contaminants in the water 

supply, unless there is affirmative 

evidence to establish that the individual 

was not exposed to contaminants in the 

water supply during that service. The 

last date on which such a veteran, or 

former reservist or member of the 

National Guard, shall be presumed to 

have been exposed to contaminants in 

the water supply shall be the last date 

on which he or she served at Camp 

Lejeune during the period beginning on 

August 1, 1953, and ending on 

December 31, 1987. For purposes of this 

section, service at Camp Lejeune means 

any service within the borders of the 

entirety of the United States Marine 

Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine 

Corps Air Station New River, North 

Carolina, during the period beginning 

on August 1, 1953, and ending on 

December 31, 1987, as established by 

military orders or other official service 

department records. 

(iv) Exposure described in paragraph 

(a)(7)(iii) of this section is an injury 

under 38 U.S.C. 101(24)(B) and (C). If an 

individual described in paragraph 

(a)(7)(iii) of this section develops a 

disease listed in 38 CFR 3.309(f), VA 

will presume that the individual 

concerned became disabled during that 

service for purposes of establishing that 

the individual served in the active 

military, naval, or air service. 

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a)) 

■ 3. Add § 3.309(f) to read as follows: 

§ 3.309 Disease subject to presumptive 

service connection. 

* * * * * 

(f) Disease associated with exposure 

to contaminants in the water supply at 

Camp Lejeune. If a veteran, or former 

reservist or member of the National 

Guard, was exposed to contaminants in 

the water supply at Camp Lejeune 

during military service and the exposure 

meets the requirements of § 3.307(a)(7), 

the following diseases shall be serviceconnected even though there is no 

record of such disease during service, 

subject to the rebuttable presumption 

provisions of § 3.307(d). 

(1) Kidney cancer. 

(2) Liver cancer. 

(3) Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 

(4) Adult leukemia. 

(5) Multiple myeloma. 

(6) Parkinson’s disease. 

(7) Aplastic anemia and other 

myelodysplastic syndromes. 

(8) Bladder cancer. 

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a)) 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 52 and 70 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2016–0453; FRL–9951–85– 

Region 7] 

State of Iowa; Approval and 

Promulgation of the Title V Operating 

Permits Program, the State 

Implementation Plan, and 112(l) Plan 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 


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ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Iowa Title V Operating 

Permits Program, the State 

Implementation Plan (SIP), and the 

112(l) plan. The submission revises the 

Title V Operating Permits Program to 

include a new chapter to address fees 

for services by the air quality program. 

Administrative revisions made with this 

rulemaking to the SIP and 112(l) plan 

are associated with the new chapter. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by October 11, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2016–0453, to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

The EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Hamilton, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Air Planning and 

Development Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219 at 

913–551–7039, or by email at 

hamilton.heather@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document proposes to take action to 

approve revisions to the Iowa Title V 

Operating Permits Program, the State 

Implementation Plan (SIP), and the 

112(l) plan. We have published a direct 

final rule approving the State’s SIP 

revision(s) in the Rules and Regulations 

section of this Federal Register, because 

we view this as a noncontroversial 

action and anticipate no relevant 

adverse comment. We have explained 

our reasons for this action in the 

preamble to the direct final rule. If we 

receive no adverse comment, we will 

not take further action on this proposed 

rule. If we receive adverse comment, we 

will withdraw the direct final rule and 

it will not take effect. We would address 

all public comments in any subsequent 

final rule based on this proposed rule. 

We do not intend to institute a second 

comment period on this action. Any 

parties interested in commenting must 

do so at this time. For further 

information, please see the information 

provided in the ADDRESSES section of 

this document. 

List of Subjects 

40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, 

Incorporation by reference, 

Intergovernmental relations, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements. 

40 CFR Part 70 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Air pollution control, 

Intergovernmental relations, Operating 

permits, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: August 24, 2016. 

Mark Hague, 

Regional Administrator, Region 7. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 55 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2014–0568; FRL–9950–97– 

Region 3] 

Outer Continental Shelf Air 

Regulations Consistency Update for 

Maryland 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to update a 

portion of the Outer Continental Shelf 

(OCS) Air Regulations. Requirements 

applying to OCS sources located within 

25 miles of States’ seaward boundaries 

must be updated periodically to remain 

consistent with the requirements of the 

corresponding onshore area (COA), as 

mandated by the Clean Air Act, as 

amended in 1990 (the Act). The portion 

of the OCS air regulations that is being 

updated pertains to the requirements for 

OCS sources for which Maryland is the 

designated COA. In the Rules and 

Regulations section of this Federal 

Register, EPA is taking this action as a 

direct final rule without prior proposal 

because the Agency views this as a 

noncontroversial submittal and 

anticipates no adverse comments. A 

detailed rationale for the approval is set 

forth in the direct final rule. If no 

adverse comments are received in 

response to this action, no further 

activity is contemplated. If EPA receives 

adverse comments, the direct final rule 

will be withdrawn and all public 

comments received will be addressed in 

a subsequent final rule based on this 

proposed rule. EPA will not institute a 

second comment period. Any parties 

interested in commenting on this action 

should do so at this time. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing by October 11, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03– 

OAR–2014–0568 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

campbell.dave@epa.gov. For comments 

submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from 

Regulations.gov. For either manner of 

submission, the EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

confidential business information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

For the full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Talley, (215) 814–2117, or by 

email at talley.david@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

further information, please see the 

information provided in the direct final 

action, with the same title, that is 

located in the Rules and Regulations 

section of this Federal Register 

publication. 


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