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benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives and, when regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health and safety 

effects, and other advantages; 

distributive impacts; and equity). 

Executive Order 13563 (Improving 

Regulation and Regulatory Review) 

emphasizes the importance of 

quantifying both costs and benefits, 

reducing costs, harmonizing rules, and 

promoting flexibility. The Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs has 

determined that this rule is not a 

significant regulatory action under 

Executive Order 12866. The Regulatory 

Impact Analysis associated with this 

rulemaking can be found as a 

supporting document at 

www.regulations.gov. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Secretary hereby certifies that 

this final rule will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities as they are 

defined in the Regulatory Flexibility 

Act, 5 U.S.C. 601–612. The provisions 

contained in this final rulemaking are 

applicable to individual Veterans, and 

applications for VGLI, as submitted by 

such individuals, and are specifically 

managed and processed within VA and 

through Prudential Insurance Company 

of America, which is not considered to 

be a small entity. Therefore, pursuant to 

5 U.S.C. 605(b), the initial and final 

regulatory flexibility analysis 

requirements of 5 U.S.C. 603 and 604 do 

not apply. 

Unfunded Mandates 

The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995 requires, at 2 U.S.C. 1532, that 

agencies prepare an assessment of 

anticipated costs and benefits before 

issuing any rule that may result in an 

expenditure by the State, local, and 

tribal governments, in the aggregate, or 

by the private sector of $100 million or 

more (adjusted annually for inflation) in 

any given year. This final rule will have 

no such effect on State, local, and tribal 

governments or on the private sector. 

Congressional Review Act 

Pursuant to the 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). 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

The Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Program number and title for 

this rule is 64.103, Life Insurance for 

Veterans. 

List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 9 

Life insurance, Military personnel, 

Veterans. 

Signing Authority 

Denis McDonough, Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs, approved this 

document on August 16, 2021, 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. 

Jeffrey M. Martin, 

Assistant Director, Office of Regulation Policy 

& Management, Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

PART 9—SERVICEMEMBERS’ GROUP 

LIFE INSURANCE AND VETERANS’ 

GROUP LIFE INSURANCE 

Accordingly, the Department of 

Veterans Affairs is adopting the interim 

rule amending 38 CFR part 9 that was 

published at 85 FR 35562 on June 9, 

2021, as final without change. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

38 CFR Part 36 

RIN 2900–AR05 

Loan Guaranty: COVID–19 Veterans 

Assistance Partial Claim Payment 

Program 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Technical amendments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) is making technical 

amendments to the final rule published 

on Friday, May 28, 2021. The final rule 

establishes the COVID–19 Veterans 

Assistance Partial Claim Payment 

program (COVID–VAPCP), a temporary 

program to help Veterans return to 

making normal loan payments on a VAguaranteed loan after exiting a 

forbearance for financial hardship due, 

directly or indirectly, to the COVID–19 

national emergency. 

DATES: These technical amendments are 

effective August 23, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Trevayne, Assistant Director, 

Loan Property and Management, Loan 

Guaranty Service (26), Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20420, (202) 632–8862. 

(This is not a toll-free telephone 

number.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VA is 

amending its final rule, ‘‘RIN 2900– 

AR05; Loan Guaranty: COVID–VAPCP’’, 

that was published on May 28, 2021, in 

the Federal Register at 86 FR 28692. In 

the Paperwork Reduction Act section of 

the final rule, VA noted it had 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for approval new 

information collections under 38 CFR 

36.4803 and 36.4805 through 36.4807. 

OMB has approved these collections of 

information and assigned an OMB 

control number. Therefore, VA is 

issuing these technical amendments to 

add the OMB control number to the 

published regulation. 

List of Subjects in 38 CFR Part 36 

Condominiums, Housing, Individuals 

with disabilities, Loan programs— 

housing and community development, 

Loan programs—veterans, Manufactured 

homes, Mortgage insurance, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements, 

Veterans. 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, the VA amends 38 CFR part 

36 to read as follows: 

PART 38—PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND 

VETERAN’S RELIEF 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 36 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501 and 3720. 

■ 2. Amend § 36.4803 by revising the 

sentence in parenthesis at the end of the 

section to read as follows: 

§ 36.4803 General requirements of the 

COVID–19 Veterans Assistance Partial 

Claim Payment program. 

* * * * * 

(The Office of Management and 

Budget has approved the information 

collection requirements in this section 

under control number 2900–0889). 

* * * * * 

■ 3. Amend § 36.4805 by revising the 

sentence in parenthesis at the end of the 

section to read as follows: 

§ 36.4805 Terms of the partial claim 

payment. 

* * * * * 

(The Office of Management and 

Budget has approved the information 

collection requirements in this section 

under control number 2900–0889). 

* * * * * 

■ 4. Amend § 36.4806 by revising the 

sentence in parenthesis at the end of the 

section to read as follows: 

§ 36.4806 Terms of the assistance to the 

veteran. 

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(The Office of Management and 

Budget has approved the information 

collection requirements in this section 

under control number 2900–0889). 

* * * * * 

■ 5. Amend § 36.4807 by revising the 

sentence in parenthesis at the end of the 

section to read as follows: 

§ 36.4807 Application for partial claim 

payment. 

* * * * * 

(The Office of Management and 

Budget has approved the information 

collection requirements in this section 

under control numbers 2900–0021 and 

2900–0889). 

* * * * * 

Dated: August 18, 2021. 

Jeffrey M. Martin, 

Assistant Director, Office of Regulation Policy 

& Management, Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2021–0378; FRL–8704–02– 

R7] 

Air Plan Approval; Iowa; Infrastructure 

State Implementation Plan 

Requirements for the 2015 Ozone 

National Ambient Air Quality Standard 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is taking final action to 

approve certain elements of a State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) submission 

from the State of Iowa addressing the 

applicable requirements of section 110 

of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the 2015 

Ozone (O3) National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard (NAAQS). Section 110 

requires that each state adopt and 

submit a SIP revision to support the 

implementation, maintenance, and 

enforcement of each new or revised 

NAAQS promulgated by the EPA. These 

SIPs are commonly referred to as 

‘‘infrastructure’’ SIPs. The infrastructure 

requirements are designed to ensure that 

the structural components of each 

state’s air quality management program 

are adequate to meet the state’s 

responsibilities under the CAA. 

DATES: This final rule is effective on 

September 22, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

No. EPA–R07–OAR–2021–0378. 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, i.e., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

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://

www.regulations.gov or please contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section for 

additional information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jason Heitman, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 7 Office, Air 

Quality Planning Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219; 

telephone number: (913) 551–7664; 

email address: heitman.jason@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. A technical 

support document (TSD) is included in 

the rulemaking docket. 

Table of Contents 

I. Background 

II. What is being addressed in this document? 

III. Have the requirements for approval of a 

sip revision been met? 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Background 

On June 29, 2021, the EPA proposed 

to approve Iowa’s infrastructure SIP 

submission for the 2015 O3 NAAQS in 

the Federal Register (86 FR 34175). The 

EPA solicited comments on the 

proposed approval of the infrastructure 

SIP submission and received no 

comments. 

II. What is being addressed in this 

document? 

The EPA is approving the 

infrastructure SIP submission received 

from the state on November 30, 2018 in 

accordance with section 110(a)(1) of the 

CAA. Specifically, the EPA is approving 

Iowa’s SIP as meeting the following 

infrastructure elements of section 

110(a)(2) of the CAA: (A) through (C), 

(D)(i)(II)—prevention of significant 

deterioration of air quality (prong 3) and 

protection of visibility (prong 4), (D)(ii), 

(E) through (H), and (J) through (M). 

Elements of section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I)— 

significant contribution to 

nonattainment (prong 1) and interfering 

with maintenance of the NAAQS (prong 

2) will be addressed in a separate action. 

Section 110(a)(2)(I) was discussed in 

the submission; however, the EPA does 

not expect infrastructure SIP 

submissions to address element (I). 

Section 110(a)(2)(I) requires states to 

meet the applicable SIP requirements of 

part D of the CAA relating to designated 

nonattainment areas. The specific part D 

submissions for designated 

nonattainment areas are subject to 

different submission schedules than 

those for section 110 infrastructure 

elements. The EPA will act on part D 

attainment plan SIP submissions 

through a separate rulemaking governed 

by the requirements for nonattainment 

areas, as described in part D. 

A Technical Support Document (TSD) 

in the docket provides additional details 

of this action, including an analysis of 

how the SIP meets the applicable CAA 

section 110 requirements for 

infrastructure SIPs. 

III. Have the requirements for approval 

of a SIP revision been met? 

The State met the public notice 

requirements for SIP submissions in 

accordance with 40 CFR 51.102. The 

EPA determined that the submission 

satisfied the completeness criteria of 40 

CFR part 51, appendix V. The State 

provided a public comment period for 

this SIP revision from September 18, 

2018 to October 19, 2018 and received 

two comments related to a request for 

more stringent ozone requirements and 

an increase in ozone monitors. The state 

provided an adequate response to these 

comments. In addition, as explained in 

more detail in the TSD which is part of 

this docket, the infrastructure SIP 

submission meets the substantive SIP 

requirements of the CAA, including 

section 110 and implementing 

regulations. The public comment period 

on the EPA’s proposed rule opened June 

29, 2021, the date of its publication in 

the Federal Register and closed on July 

29, 2021. During this period, the EPA 

received no comments. 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

The EPA is approving elements of the 

November 30, 2018, submission from 

the State of Iowa addressing the 

infrastructure elements for the 2015 O3

NAAQS. Specifically, the EPA is 

approving Iowa’s SIP as meeting the 

following infrastructure elements of 

section 110(a)(2): (A) through (C), 

(D)(i)(II) prong 3 and prong 4, (D)(ii), (E) 

through (H), (J) through (M). The EPA 

intends to act on the elements of section 

110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I)—prong 1 and prong 2 

in a subsequent rulemaking. The EPA is 

not addressing Section 110(a)(2)(I) as it 

is the EPA’s interpretation of the CAA 

that these elements do not need to be 

addressed in the context of an 

infrastructure SIP submission. 


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