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VA, EPA, and Joint Board Post Overlapping Comment Periods and Regulatory Actions

The Veterans Benefits Administration opens two 60-day comment windows, the EPA approves a conditional hazardous-waste variance, and the Joint Board schedules an actuarial advisory meeting.

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The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, has announced two separate opportunities for public comment under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 — one covering a proposed collection related to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or Privacy Act (PA) requests, and one covering a proposed collection related to an Application for Disability Compensation Benefits. Both notices require Federal agencies to publish in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including proposed revisions of currently approved collections, and both carry a public comment deadline of August 24, 2026.

A third VBA information-collection action carries a nearer deadline. The Veterans Benefits Administration will submit a Compliance Inspection Report collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment; that PRA submission describes the nature of the information collection and its expected cost and burden, and includes the actual data collection instrument. The comment deadline for that submission is July 23, 2026.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving, with conditions, no-migration variances for four categories/groups of wastes at Clean Harbors' Grassy Mountain commercial treatment, storage and disposal facility (TSDF) in Tooele County, Utah, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) standards. The variances cover up to a combined 250 temporary disposal units ("put piles") at any one time, allowing Clean Harbors to temporarily store treated hazardous wastes awaiting LDR compliance verification in put piles within its Subtitle C hazardous waste landfill. The petitioner demonstrated, to a reasonable degree of certainty, that there will be no migration of hazardous constituents from the put piles for as long as the wastes remain hazardous. Once LDR compliance is verified, the put piles will be disposed within the onsite RCRA hazardous waste landfill cell and will be subject to conditions set out in the Compliance Monitoring Plan. The EPA action also carries a July 23, 2026 deadline.

The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries has given notice of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations — a portion of which will be open to the public — to be held at the Internal Revenue Service, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, on July 13 and 14, 2026.

What to watch

  • July 13–14, 2026 — Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations meeting, IRS headquarters, Washington, DC (partial public access).
  • July 23, 2026 — VBA Compliance Inspection Report PRA submission to OMB; EPA no-migration variance effective/comment date for Clean Harbors Grassy Mountain, Utah.
  • August 24, 2026 — Public comment deadline for VBA FOIA/PA Request information collection and VBA Application for Disability Compensation Benefits information collection.

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  1. The public comment deadline for the VBA FOIA/PA Request information collection is August 24, 2026.

    federalregister.gov

  2. VBA is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of information related to an Application for Disability Compensation Benefits.

    federalregister.gov

  3. The public comment deadline for the VBA Application for Disability Compensation Benefits information collection is August 24, 2026.

    federalregister.gov

  4. The Veterans Benefits Administration will submit the Compliance Inspection Report collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment.

    federalregister.gov

  5. The PRA submission for the Compliance Inspection Report describes the nature of the information collection and its expected cost and burden, and includes the actual data collection instrument.

    federalregister.gov

  6. The comment deadline for the VBA Compliance Inspection Report PRA submission is July 23, 2026.

    federalregister.gov

  7. The EPA is approving, with conditions, no-migration variances for four categories/groups of wastes at Clean Harbors' Grassy Mountain commercial treatment, storage and disposal facility (TSDF) in Tooele County, Utah.

    federalregister.gov

  8. The variances cover up to a combined 250 temporary disposal units ('put piles') at any one time.

    federalregister.gov

  9. The variances are from the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) standards.

    federalregister.gov

  10. The variances allow Clean Harbors to temporarily store treated hazardous wastes awaiting LDR compliance verification in put piles within its Subtitle C hazardous waste landfill.

    federalregister.gov

  11. The petitioner demonstrated, to a reasonable degree of certainty, that there will be no migration of hazardous constituents from the put piles for as long as the wastes remain hazardous.

    federalregister.gov

  12. Once LDR compliance is verified, the put piles will be disposed within the onsite RCRA hazardous waste landfill cell and will be subject to conditions set out in the Compliance Monitoring Plan.

    federalregister.gov

  13. The EPA no-migration variance action carries a July 23, 2026 deadline.

    federalregister.gov

  14. The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries has given notice of a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations, a portion of which will be open to the public.

    federalregister.gov

  15. The Advisory Committee on Actuarial Examinations meeting will be held at the Internal Revenue Service, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, on July 13 and 14, 2026.

    federalregister.gov

  16. 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 revision of a currently approved collection, and allow 60 days for public comment.

    federalregister.gov

  17. VBA is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of information related to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or Privacy Act (PA) requests.

    federalregister.gov

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