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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 123 / Monday, June 30, 2025 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
[OMB Control No. 2900–0055]

Agency Information Collection
Activity: Request for Determination of
Loan Guaranty Eligibility—Unmarried
Surviving Spouses
Veterans Benefits
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Veterans Benefits
Administration, 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
extension of a currently approved
collection, and allow 60 days for public
comment in response to the notice.
DATES: Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
collection of information should be
received on or before August 29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be
submitted through www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Program-Specific information: Kendra
McCleave, 202–461–9568,
Kendra.McCleave@va.gov.
VA PRA information: Dorothy
Glasgow, 202–461–1084, VAPRA@
va.gov.
SUMMARY:

Under the
PRA of 1995, Federal agencies must
obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. This request for comment is
being made pursuant to Section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA.
With respect to the following
collection of information, VBA invites
comments on: (1) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of VBA’s
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of VBA’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
the use of other forms of information
technology.

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Title: VA Form 26–1817, Request for
Determination of Loan Guaranty
Eligibility—Unmarried Surviving
Spouses.
OMB Control Number: 2900–0055.
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRASearch (Once at this link, you can
enter the OMB Control Number to find
the historical versions of this
Information Collection).
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: The VA Form 26–1817 is
submitted by an unmarried surviving
spouse of a veteran whose death was
service-connected for determination of
eligibility for VA home loan benefits as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. 3701(b)(2).
Serves to record application and
internal VA processing of request
including verification on veterans
service-connected death and status of
applicant as unmarried surviving
spouse. In addition, adjustments were
made to the burden hours from the
previous submission. The change
reflects a correction to a previous
estimate. The adjustments is attributed
to a higher number of respondent
applications, likely due to an increase in
VA home loan benefit among the
surviving spouses.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households.
Estimated Annual Burden: 3,125
hours.
Estimated Average Burden per
Respondent: 15 minutes.
Frequency of Response: One Time.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
12,500.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
Dorothy Glasgow,
Acting, VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
Enterprise and Integration/Data Governance
Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Notice of Department of Veterans
Affairs Implementation of Law
Concerning Changes to Policies and
Guidance Affecting the Educational
Assistance Programs of the
Department
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Notice of Changes to
Department of Veterans Affairs Policies
and Guidance Affecting the Educational
Assistance Programs of the Department.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) is informing the public of
efforts to implement Section 213 of the

SUMMARY:

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Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century
Veterans Healthcare and Benefits
Improvements Act (Dole Act), which
requires VA to make notice and
justification for changes in policy and
guidance available to students,
educational institutions, and the
Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the
Senate and House of Representatives.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas Alphonso, Veterans Benefits
Administration, (202) 461–9800.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
January 2, 2025, the ‘‘Senator Elizabeth
Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare
and Benefits Improvements Act’’ was
signed into law. Section 213 of the Act,
‘‘Notice of changes to Department of
Veterans Affairs policies and guidance
affecting the educational assistance
programs of the Department,’’ amends
subchapter III of chapter 36 of title 38,
United States Code, by adding a new
section 3699D, ‘‘Notice of changes to
policies and guidance relating to
educational assistance programs’’.
This new section prohibits VA from
implementing any changes in policy or
guidance that relates to any VA
educational assistance program, before a
date 90 days after the date on which VA
makes available to students, educational
institutions, and the Committees on
Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and
House of Representatives notice of and
justification for the change.
This Federal Register Notice serves as
a public notification of how VA will
comply with the requirements of this
law:
(1) VA will post policy and guidance
changes covered by this law including
justification to a publicly facing website
located at www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/
policy-change-notice.asp.
(2) VA will notify the statutorily
mandated stakeholders, students,
educational institutions, and the
Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
that a policy or guidance change
covered by this law has been posted on
the aforementioned website via
previously established routes, such as
email and include a brief summary of
the change.
(3) VA will wait at least 90 days after
notification of any changes to policy or
guidance covered by section 213 of the
‘‘Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century
Veterans Healthcare and Benefits
Improvements Act’’ to implement the
specified change.
What is a change in policy or guidance?
VA will make 90-day notice and
justification available to students,
educational institutions, and the

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