[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34502-34503]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16783]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: National Cemetery System, Department of Veterans Affairs

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and 
respondent burden, the National Cemetery System (NCS) invites the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on this 
information collection. This request for comment is being made pursuant 
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13; 44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(2)(A)). Comments should address the accuracy of the burden 
estimates and ways to minimize the burden including the use of 
automated collection techniques or the use of other forms of 
information technology, as well as other relevant aspects of the 
information collection.

DATES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposal for the 
collection of information should be received by no later than September 
3, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Frances Wills, National 
Cemetery System (402D2), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20420. All comments will become a matter of 
public record and will be summarized in the NCS request for Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval. In this document the NCS is 
soliciting comments concerning the following information collection:
    OMB Control Number: 2900-0365.
    Title and Form Number: Request for Disinterment, VA Form 40-4970.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Need and Uses: The form is used to allow a person who has a sincere 
wish and cogent reason to request removal of remains from a national 
cemetery for interment at another location. The information is used for 
approving or disapproving the disinterment request.
    Current Actions: Interments made in national cemeteries are 
permanent and final. Disinterments will be permitted for cogent 
reasons, and then with prior written authorization only, usually by the 
Cemetery Director. Approval can be made when all immediate family 
members of the decedent, which includes the person who initiated the 
interment (whether or not he/she is a member of the immediate family), 
give their written consent. (Next-of-kin are generally initiators of 
disinterment requests.) An order from a court of local jurisdiction can 
be accepted in lieu of submitting VA form 40-4970.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 33 hours.
    Estimated Average Burden Per Respondent: 10 minutes.
    Frequency On occasion.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 197.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or

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copies of the form should be directed to Department of Veterans 
Affairs, Attn: Jacquie McCray, Information Management Service (045A4), 
810 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20420, telephone (202) 273-8032 
or FAX (202) 273-5981.

    Dated: June 24, 1996.
    By direction of the Secretary.
William T. Morgan,
Management Analyst.
[FR Doc. 96-16783 Filed 7-1-96; 8:45 am]
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