IB
Union Calendar No. 283
105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3603
[Report No. 105–490]
To authorize major medical facility projects and major medical facility leases
for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1999, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 31, 1998
Mr. STUMP (for himself, Mr. EVANS, Mr. STEARNS, and Mr. GUTIERREZ) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Vet-
erans’ Affairs
APRIL 22, 1998
Additional sponsors: Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. EVERETT, and Mr.
COOKSEY
APRIL 22, 1998
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed
A BILL
To authorize major medical facility projects and major medi-
cal facility leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs
for fiscal year 1999, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY
PROJECTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs
may carry out the following major medical facility
projects, with each project to be carried out in the amount
specified for that project:
(1) Alterations to facilitate consolidation of
services in buildings 126 and 150, and demolition of
seismically unsafe building 122 at the Department
of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach,
California, in an amount not to exceed $23,200,000.
(2) Construction and seismic work at the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San
Juan, Puerto Rico, in an amount not to exceed
$50,000,000.
(3) Outpatient clinic expansion at the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washing-
ton, D.C., in an amount not to exceed $29,700,000.
(4) Construction of a psychogeriatric care build-
ing and demolition of seismically unsafe building
324 at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Palo Alto, California, in an amount not to
exceed $22,400,000.
(5) Construction of an ambulatory care addition
and renovations for ambulatory care at the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland
(Wade Park), Ohio, in an amount not to exceed
$28,300,000, of which $7,500,000 shall be derived
from funds appropriated for a fiscal year before fis-
cal year 1999 that remain available for obligation.
(6) Construction of an ambulatory care addition
at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Cen-
ter, Tucson, Arizona, in an amount not to exceed
$35,000,000.
(7) Construction of an addition for psychiatric
care at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, Dallas, Texas, in an amount not to exceed
$24,200,000.
(8) Outpatient clinic projects at Auburn and
Merced, California, as part of the Northern Califor-
nia Healthcare Systems Project, in an amount not
to exceed $3,000,000, to be derived only from funds
appropriated for Construction, Major Projects, for a
fiscal year before fiscal year 1999 that remain avail-
able for obligation.
(b) CONSTRUCTION
OF PARKING FACILITY.—The
Secretary may construct a parking structure at the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Col-
orado, in an amount not to exceed $13,000,000, of which
$11,900,000 shall be derived from funds in the Parking
Revolving Fund.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY
LEASES.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may enter into
leases for satellite outpatient clinics as follows:
(1) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in an amount not
to exceed $1,800,000.
(2) Daytona Beach, Florida, in an amount not
to exceed $2,600,000.
(3) Oakland Park, Florida, in an amount not to
exceed $4,100,000.
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year
1999—
(1) for the Construction, Major Projects, ac-
count $205,300,000 for the projects authorized in
section 1(a); and
(2) for the Medical Care account, $8,500,000
for the leases authorized in section 2.
(b) LIMITATION.—(1) The projects authorized in sec-
tion 1(a) may only be carried out using—
(A) funds appropriated for fiscal year 1999
pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in
subsection (a);