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[CITE: 38USC2410]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                        PART II--GENERAL BENEFITS
 
              CHAPTER 24--NATIONAL CEMETERIES AND MEMORIALS
 
Sec. 2410. Burial of cremated remains in Arlington National 
        Cemetery
        
    (a) The Secretary of the Army shall designate an area of appropriate 
size within Arlington National Cemetery for the unmarked interment, in 
accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, of the 
ashes of persons eligible for interment in Arlington National Cemetery 
whose remains were cremated. Such area shall be an area not suitable for 
the burial of casketed remains.
    (b) The Secretary of each military department shall make available 
appropriate forms on which those members of the Armed Forces who so 
desire may indicate their desire to be buried within the area to be 
designated under subsection (a).

(Added Pub. L. 101-237, title V, Sec. 502(a), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 
2093, Sec. 1010; amended Pub. L. 102-54, Sec. 14(b)(22), June 13, 1991, 
105 Stat. 284; renumbered Sec. 2410, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 
1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 1010 of this title as this 
section.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102-54 substituted ``each military department'' 
for ``the military departments''.
