32 CFR § 553.6 - Standards for managing Army National Military Cemeteries.

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title: "32 CFR § 553.6 - Standards for managing Army National Military Cemeteries."
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title_name: "National Defense"
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chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY"
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# 553.6 Standards for managing Army National Military Cemeteries.

(a) The Executive Director is responsible for establishing and maintaining cemetery layout plans, including plans setting forth sections with gravesites, memorial areas with markers, and columbaria with niches, and landscape planting plans.

(b) New sections or areas may be opened and prepared for interments or for installing memorial markers only with the approval of the Executive Director.