{"id":426206,"date":"2024-11-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=426206"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"VA-to-offer-green-burials-as-part-of-pilot-program-at-national-cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/VA-to-offer-green-burials-as-part-of-pilot-program-at-national-cemeteries\/","title":{"rendered":"VA to offer &#8216;green&#8217; burials as part of pilot program at national cemeteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 The U.S.\u00a0Department of Veterans Affairs announced Tuesday it would offer a pilot program for\u00a0green burial sections at three national cemeteries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the program provides veterans with burial options that minimize environmental impact. The three national cemeteries participating are National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona; Pikes Peak National Cemetery in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The VA&#8217;s National Cemetery Administration is trying the pilot program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NCA is pleased to begin offering this new option to veterans and their family members eligible for interment in a VA national cemetery,&#8221; Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs Ronald Walters said in a statement. &#8220;This pilot reflects our commitment to understand and address the emerging burial preferences of veterans and their loved ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers gave VA the authority to establish green burial sections through the National Cemeteries Preservation and Protection Act of 2022. VA officials said they wanted to offer a more environmentally sustainable burial option for Veterans and their eligible dependents in national cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>The program will allow NCA to gather information and define operational procedures for implementing green burial sections at additional cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans seeking interment in these national cemeteries can request green burials effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 The U.S.\u00a0Department of Veterans Affairs announced Tuesday it would offer a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}