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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Notice of Availability of a 

Supplemental Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement for the San 

Francisco VA Medical Center Long 

Range Development Plan 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA), San Francisco VA Medical 

Center (SFVAMC) announces the 

availability of the Supplemental Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(SDEIS) for the Long Range 

Development Plan (LRDP), for public 

comment pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4331 et 

seq.), the Council on Environmental 

Quality Regulations for Implementing 

the Procedural Requirements of NEPA 

(40 CFR parts 1500–1508), VA’s 

implementing Regulations (38 CFR part 

26), as well as the settlement agreement 

resulting from Planning Association for 

the Richmond, et al v. U.S. Department 

of Veterans Affairs, C–06–02321–SBA 

(filed 6 June 2008). VA supplemented 

the draft EIS originally released in 

August 2012 to account for design and 

project phasing changes from the LRDP 

released in 2012 to the LRDP released in 

2014. Both versions of the LRDP 

describe development and construction 

of patient care buildings, research 

buildings, business occupancy 

buildings, and parking structures, as 

well as retrofitting seismically deficient 

buildings. The SDEIS identifies and 

addresses environmental impacts 

associated with the Proposed Action. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit comments in writing on the 

SFVAMC SDEIS by May 8, 2015. In 

preparing the SDEIS the SFVAMC will 

consider all comments received or 

postmarked by that date. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

Interested parties are also invited to 

participate in a public meeting 

regarding the SFVAMC SDEIS on April 

14, 2015 at SFVAMC (4150 Clement 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, 

Building 7, 1st floor, Auditorium) at 5 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the SFVAMC SDEIS through 

www.regulations.gov. Please refer to: 

‘‘SFVAMC Supplemental Draft EIS’’ in 

any correspondence. 

Written comments may also be 

submitted electronically to 

robin.flanagan@va.gov please reference 

‘‘SFVAMC Supplemental Draft EIS’’ in 

any correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robin Flanagan, San Francisco Veterans 

Affairs Medical Center, 4150 Clement 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94121 or by 

telephone, (415) 750–2049. The 

SFVAMC 2014 LRDP and SDEIS are 

available for viewing on the SFVAMC 

Web site: http://

www.sanfrancisco.va.gov/planning. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VA 

operates the SFVAMC, located at Fort 

Miley in San Francisco, California. It is 

the only VA medical center in the City 

and County of San Francisco and VA 

considers it an aging facility that needs 

to be retrofitted and expanded. 

Proposed Action 

The SFVAMC has identified a need 

for retrofitting existing buildings to the 

most recent seismic safety requirements 

and for an additional 589,000 gross 

square feet (gsf) of medical facility space 

to meet the needs of San Francisco Bay 

Area and northern California coast 

Veterans over the next 15 years, in two 

phases. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose of the Proposed Action 

is to meet the Veterans Health 

Administration mission of providing 

comprehensive, high-quality health care 

services that improve the health and 

well-being of Veterans and other eligible 

persons in the San Francisco Bay Area 

and Northern California. VA’s need for 

the Proposed Action is to address the 

area’s current and future capacity issues 

brought about by the growing Veteran 

population, to better serve the everchanging health care needs of the 

growing Veteran population, and to 

provide safe and appropriate facilities 

for providing health care services and 

conducting research. 

SFVAMC has major space and parking 

deficiencies at its existing Fort Miley 

Campus. The SFVAMC mission is to 

continue to be a major primary and 

tertiary care medical center providing 

high-quality care to eligible Veterans in 

the San Francisco Bay Area and along 

the North Coast. SFVAMC strives to 

deliver needed care to Veterans while 

contributing to health care knowledge 

through research. SFVAMC is also a 

ready resource for Department of 

Defense backup, serving as a Federal 

Coordinating Center in the event of a 

national emergency. New construction 

initiatives would transform the Campus 

by providing seismic improvements and 

additional facility space. VA can meet 

its mission more effectively by 

integrating clinical care, education, and 

research, because such integration 

makes for more efficient and progressive 

overall care for Veterans. 

Signing Authority 

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or 

designee, approved this document and 

authorized the undersigned to sign and 

submit the document to the Office of the 

Federal Register for publication 

electronically as an official document of 

the Department of Veterans Affairs. Jose 

D. Riojas, Chief of Staff, approved this 

document on February 25, 2015 for 

publication. 

Approved: March 5, 2015. 

Michael Shores, 

Regulation Policy and Management, Office 

of General Counsel. 

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