[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 238 (Tuesday, December 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 76234]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-26980]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Final 
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs Housing Loan Program

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announces the 
availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final Programmatic 
Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for VA's Housing Loan Program 
(HLP). Notice of the Final PEIS was published by the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) in the Federal Register on July 15, 2022. The 
VA Under Secretary for Benefits signed the ROD on October 4, 2022, 
which was at least 30 days after publication of EPA's Notice of 
Availability.

ADDRESSES: The ROD is available at the VA website https://www.benefits.va.gov/homeloans/environmental_impact.asp. Printed copies 
of the document may be obtained by contacting VA at 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Byrum, Lead Management Analyst, 
Loan Guaranty Service, Veterans Benefit Administration, Department of 
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420, at 
[email protected] or by phone at 202-632-8862. This is not a 
toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final PEIS was developed pursuant to the 
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
4321, et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality's regulations for 
implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR 1500-1508) and 
VA's NEPA regulations titled ``Environmental Effects of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs Actions'' (38 CFR 26).
    The Final PEIS assessed the potential physical, environmental, 
cultural, socioeconomic and cumulative effects of the HLP and will be 
used to assist and inform agency planning and decision-making. The HLP 
assists hundreds of thousands of Veterans each year across the United 
States and its Territories. This PEIS process has ensured VA 
appropriately considered the potential effects of the HLP, a major 
Federal action, on the quality of the human environment, as required by 
40 CFR 1500.1.

Signing Authority

    Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, approved this 
document on December 7, 2022, 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.

Luvenia Potts,
Regulation Development Coordinator, Office of Regulation Policy & 
Management, Office of the Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2022-26980 Filed 12-12-22; 8:45 am]
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