Future Burial Needs provides an assessment of the number of additional cemeteries that will be required to ensure that 90 percent of veterans live within 75 miles of a national or state veterans cemetery beginning in 2005 and projecting out to 2020. In addition, the report identifies those areas in the United States with the greatest concentration of veterans whose burial needs are not served by a national or state veterans cemetery as well as an estimate of the costs to construct, staff and equip a new national cemetery. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs sent this report to Congress on May 15, 2002.


VA Proposes Sites for Future Cemeteries - News Release

Secretary Principi's Transmittal Letter (PDF)

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