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further, That funds made available under this heading are available 
to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
loans not to exceed $3,019,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 
out the direct loan program, $343,000, which may be paid to the 
appropriation for ‘‘General operating expenses, Veterans Benefits 
Administration’’. 
NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct loan pro-
gram authorized by subchapter V of chapter 37 of title 38, United 
States Code, $1,116,000. 
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
MEDICAL SERVICES 
For necessary expenses for furnishing, as authorized by law, 
inpatient and outpatient care and treatment to beneficiaries of 
the Department of Veterans Affairs and veterans described in sec-
tion 1705(a) of title 38, United States Code, including care and 
treatment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the Department, 
and including medical supplies and equipment, food services, and 
salaries and expenses of health care employees hired under title 
38, United States Code, aid to State homes as authorized by section 
1741 of title 38, United States Code, assistance and support services 
for caregivers as authorized by section 1720G of title 38, United 
States Code, and loan repayments authorized by section 604 of 
the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 
(Public Law 111–163; 124 Stat. 1174; 38 U.S.C. 7681 note) 
$41,354,000,000, plus reimbursements, shall become available on 
October 1, 2012, and shall remain available until September 30, 
2013: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall establish a priority for 
the provision of medical treatment for veterans who have service- 
connected disabilities, lower income, or have special needs: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs shall give priority funding for the provi-
sion of basic medical benefits to veterans in enrollment priority 
groups 1 through 6: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may 
authorize the dispensing of prescription drugs from Veterans Health 
Administration facilities to enrolled veterans with privately written 
prescriptions based on requirements established by the Secretary: 
Provided further, That the implementation of the program described 
in the previous proviso shall incur no additional cost to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs. 
MEDICAL SUPPORT AND COMPLIANCE 
For necessary expenses in the administration of the medical, 
hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction, supply, and 
research activities, as authorized by law; administrative expenses 
in support of capital policy activities; and administrative and legal 
expenses of the Department for collecting and recovering amounts 
owed the Department as authorized under chapter 17 of title 38, 
United States Code, and the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act
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(42 U.S.C. 2651 et seq.); $5,746,000,000, plus reimbursements, shall 
become available on October 1, 2012, and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2013. 
MEDICAL FACILITIES 
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and operation of 
hospitals, nursing homes, domiciliary facilities, and other necessary 
facilities of the Veterans Health Administration; for administrative 
expenses in support of planning, design, project management, real 
property acquisition and disposition, construction, and renovation 
of any facility under the jurisdiction or for the use of the Depart-
ment; for oversight, engineering, and architectural activities not 
charged to project costs; for repairing, altering, improving, or pro-
viding facilities in the several hospitals and homes under the juris-
diction of the Department, not otherwise provided for, either by 
contract or by the hire of temporary employees and purchase of 
materials; for leases of facilities; and for laundry services, 
$5,441,000,000, plus reimbursements, shall become available on 
October 1, 2012, and shall remain available until September 30, 
2013. 
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of medical 
and prosthetic research and development as authorized by chapter 
73 of title 38, United States Code, $581,000,000, plus reimburse-
ments, shall remain available until September 30, 2013. 
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of the National Cemetery Administra-
tion for operations and maintenance, not otherwise provided for, 
including uniforms or allowances therefor; cemeterial expenses as 
authorized by law; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for 
use in cemeterial operations; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
repair, alteration or improvement of facilities under the jurisdiction 
of the National Cemetery Administration, $250,934,000, of which 
not to exceed $25,100,000 shall remain available until September 
30, 2013: Provided, That none of the funds under this heading 
may be used to expand the Urban Initiative project beyond those 
sites outlined in the fiscal year 2012 or previous budget submissions 
until the National Cemetery Administration submits to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress a detailed 
strategy to serve the burial needs of veterans residing in rural 
and highly rural areas: Provided further, That the report shall 
include a timeline for implementation of such strategy and cost 
estimates of establishing new burial sites in at least five rural 
or highly rural locations. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary operating expenses of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including administrative
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expenses in support of Department-Wide capital planning, manage-
ment and policy activities, uniforms, or allowances therefor; not 
to exceed $25,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General 
Services Administration for security guard services, $416,737,000, 
of which not to exceed $20,837,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2013: Provided, That funds provided under this 
heading may be transferred to ‘‘General operating expenses, Vet-
erans Benefits Administration’’. 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES, VETERANS BENEFITS 
ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Benefits 
Administration, not otherwise provided for, including hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles, reimbursement of the General Services 
Administration for security guard services, and reimbursement of 
the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail, 
$2,018,764,000: Provided, That expenses for services and assistance 
authorized under paragraphs (1), (2), (5), and (11) of section 3104(a) 
of title 38, United States Code, that the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs determines are necessary to enable entitled veterans: (1) 
to the maximum extent feasible, to become employable and to 
obtain and maintain suitable employment; or (2) to achieve max-
imum independence in daily living, shall be charged to this account: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, not to exceed $105,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2013: Provided further, That from the funds made 
available under this heading, the Veterans Benefits Administration 
may purchase (on a one-for-one replacement basis only) up to two 
passenger motor vehicles for use in operations of that Administra-
tion in Manila, Philippines. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS 
For necessary expenses for information technology systems and 
telecommunications support, including developmental information 
systems and operational information systems; for pay and associated 
costs; and for the capital asset acquisition of information technology 
systems, including management and related contractual costs of 
said acquisitions, including contractual costs associated with oper-
ations authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 
$3,111,376,000, plus reimbursements: Provided, That $915,000,000 
shall be for pay and associated costs, of which not to exceed 
$25,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2013: Pro-
vided further, That $1,616,018,000 shall be for operations and 
maintenance, of which not to exceed $110,000,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2013: Provided further, That 
$580,358,000 shall be for information technology systems develop-
ment, modernization, and enhancement, and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2013: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available under this heading may be obligated until the 
Department of Veterans Affairs submits to the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, and such Committees 
approve, a plan for expenditure that: (1) meets the capital planning 
and investment control review requirements established by the 
Office of Management and Budget; (2) complies with the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs enterprise architecture; (3) conforms with
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an established enterprise life cycle methodology; and (4) complies 
with the acquisition rules, requirements, guidelines, and systems 
acquisition management practices of the Federal Government: Pro-
vided further, That amounts made available for information tech-
nology systems development, modernization, and enhancement may 
not be obligated or expended until the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
or the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs submits to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress a certification of the amounts, in parts or in full, 
to be obligated and expended for each development project: Provided 
further, That amounts made available for salaries and expenses, 
operations and maintenance, and information technology systems 
development, modernization, and enhancement may be transferred 
among the three subaccounts after the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
requests from the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress the authority to make the transfer and an approval 
is issued: Provided further, That the funds made available under 
this heading for information technology systems development, mod-
ernization, and enhancement, shall be for the projects, and in 
the amounts, specified under this heading in the Joint Explanatory 
Statement of the Committee of Conference. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, to 
include information technology, in carrying out the provisions of 
the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $112,391,000, 
of which $6,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2013. 
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS 
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving any of 
the facilities, including parking projects, under the jurisdiction or 
for the use of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any 
of the purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 
8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, United States Code, 
including 
planning, 
architectural 
and 
engineering 
services, 
construction management services, maintenance or guarantee 
period services costs associated with equipment guarantees provided 
under the project, services of claims analysts, offsite utility and 
storm drainage system construction costs, and site acquisition, 
where the estimated cost of a project is more than the amount 
set forth in section 8104(a)(3)(A) of title 38, United States Code, 
or where funds for a project were made available in a previous 
major project appropriation, $589,604,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $5,000,000 shall be to make reimbursements 
as provided in section 13 of the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 
(41 U.S.C. 612) for claims paid for contract disputes: Provided, 
That except for advance planning activities, including needs assess-
ments which may or may not lead to capital investments, and 
other capital asset management related activities, including port-
folio development and management activities, and investment 
strategy studies funded through the advance planning fund and 
the planning and design activities funded through the design fund, 
including needs assessments which may or may not lead to capital 
investments, and salaries and associated costs of the resident engi-
neers who oversee those capital investments funded through this