ministration which has been selected as the 
receiving facility; or 
(iii) facilities of the Veterans Health 
Administration alternative to those rec-
ommended or selected. 
(d) WAIVER.— 
(1) RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF FUNDS.—The Sec-
retary may close or realign facilities of the Veterans 
Health Administration under this title without regard 
to any provision of law restricting the use of funds 
for closing or realigning facilities of the Veterans 
Health Administration included in any appropria-
tion or authorization Act. 
(2) RESTRICTIONS ON AUTHORITIES.—The Sec-
retary may close or realign facilities of the Veterans 
Health Administration under this title without regard 
to the restrictions of section 8110 of title 38, United 
States Code. 
(e) TRANSFER AUTHORITY IN CONNECTION WITH PAY-
MENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION COSTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.— 
(A) TRANSFER BY DEED.—Subject to para-
graph (2) of this subsection and section 120(h) 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 
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U.S.C. 9620(h)), the Secretary may enter into 
an agreement to transfer by deed a facility of the 
Veterans Health Administration with any person 
who agrees to perform all environmental restora-
tion, waste management, and environmental 
compliance activities that are required for the 
property or facilities under Federal and State 
laws, administrative decisions, agreements (in-
cluding schedules and milestones), and concur-
rences. 
(B) ADDITIONAL TERMS OR CONDITIONS.— 
The Secretary may require any additional terms 
and conditions in connection with an agreement 
authorized by subparagraph (A) as the Secretary 
considers appropriate to protect the interests of 
the United States. 
(2) LIMITATION.—A transfer of a facility of the 
Veterans Health Administration may be made under 
paragraph (1) only if the Secretary certifies to Con-
gress that— 
(A) the costs of all environmental restora-
tion, waste management, and environmental 
compliance activities otherwise to be paid by the 
Secretary with respect to the facility of the Vet-
erans Health Administration are equal to or 
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greater than the fair market value of the prop-
erty or facilities to be transferred, as determined 
by the Secretary; or 
(B) if such costs are lower than the fair 
market value of the facility of the Veterans 
Health Administration, the recipient of such 
transfer agrees to pay the difference between the 
fair market value and such costs. 
(3) PAYMENT BY THE SECRETARY FOR CERTAIN 
TRANSFERS.—In the case of a facility of the Veterans 
Health Administration covered by a certification 
under paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary may pay the 
recipient of such facility an amount equal to the less-
er of— 
(A) the amount by which the costs incurred 
by the recipient of the facility of the Veterans 
Health Administration for all environmental res-
toration, waste, management, and environmental 
compliance activities with respect to such facility 
exceed the fair market value of such property as 
specified in such certification; or 
(B) the amount by which the costs (as deter-
mined by the Secretary) that would otherwise 
have been incurred by the Secretary for such res-
toration, management, and activities with re-
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spect to such facility of the Veterans Health Ad-
ministration exceed the fair market value of 
property as so specified. 
(4) DISCLOSURE.—As part of an agreement 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall disclose to 
the person to whom the facility of the Veterans Health 
Administration will be transferred any information 
of the Secretary regarding the environmental restora-
tion, waste management, and environmental compli-
ance activities described in paragraph (1) that relate 
to the facility of the Veterans Health Administration. 
The Secretary shall provide such information before 
entering into the agreement. 
(5) APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL 
LAWS.—Nothing in this subsection shall be construed 
to modify, alter, or amend the Comprehensive Envi-
ronmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) or the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.). 
SEC. 106. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ASSET AND 
INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW ACCOUNT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established in 
the ledgers of the Treasury an account to be known as the 
‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs Asset and Infrastructure 
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Review Account’’ which shall be administered by the Sec-
retary as a single account. 
(b) CREDITS TO ACCOUNT.—There shall be credited to 
the Account the following: 
(1) Funds authorized for and appropriated to 
the Account. 
(2) Proceeds received from the lease, transfer, or 
disposal of any property at a facility of the Veterans 
Health Administration closed or realigned under this 
title. 
(c) USE OF ACCOUNT.—The Secretary may use the 
funds in the Account only for the following purposes: 
(1) To carry out this title. 
(2) To cover property management and disposal 
costs incurred at facilities of the Veterans Health Ad-
ministration closed, modernized, or realigned under 
this title. 
(3) To cover costs associated with supervision, 
inspection, overhead, engineering, and design of con-
struction projects undertaken under this title, and 
subsequent claims, if any, related to such activities. 
(4) Other purposes that the Secretary determines 
support the mission and operations of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs. 
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(d) CONSOLIDATED BUDGET JUSTIFICATION DISPLAY 
FOR ACCOUNT.— 
(1) CONSOLIDATED
BUDGET
INFORMATION
RE-
QUIRED.—The Secretary shall establish a consolidated 
budget justification display in support of the Account 
that for each fiscal year— 
(A) details the amount and nature of credits 
to, and expenditures from, the Account during 
the preceding fiscal year; 
(B) separately details the environmental re-
mediation costs associated with facility of the 
Veterans Health Administration for which a 
budget request is made; 
(C) specifies the transfers into the Account 
and the purposes for which these transferred 
funds will be further obligated, to include care-
taker and environment remediation costs associ-
ated with each facility of the Veterans Health 
Administration; and 
(D) details any intra-budget activity trans-
fers within the Account that exceeded $1,000,000 
during the preceding fiscal year or that are pro-
posed for the next fiscal year and will exceed 
$1,000,000. 
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(2) SUBMISSION.—The Secretary shall include 
the information required by paragraph (1) in the ma-
terials that the Secretary submits to Congress in sup-
port of the budget for a fiscal year submitted by the 
President pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 
States Code. 
(e) CLOSURE OF ACCOUNT; TREATMENT OF REMAIN-
ING FUNDS.— 
(1) CLOSURE.—The Account shall be closed at 
the time and in the manner provided for appropria-
tion accounts under section 1555 of title 31, United 
States Code, except that unobligated funds which re-
main in the Account upon closure shall be held by the 
Secretary of the Treasury until transferred to the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs by law after the Committees 
on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives receive the final report transmitted 
under paragraph (2). 
(2) FINAL REPORT.—No later than 60 days after 
the closure of the Account under paragraph (1), the 
Secretary shall transmit to the Committees on Vet-
erans’ Affairs of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
containing an accounting of— 
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(A) all the funds credited to and expended 
from the Account or otherwise expended under 
this title; and 
(B) any funds remaining in the Account. 
SEC. 107. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF COMMIS-
SION REPORT. 
(a) DISAPPROVAL RESOLUTION.—For purposes of sec-
tion 104(b), the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means only a joint 
resolution which is introduced within the 5-day period be-
ginning on the date on which the President transmits the 
report to the Congress under section 103(d), and— 
(1) which does not have a preamble; 
(2) the matter after the resolving clause of which 
is as follows: ‘‘that Congress disapproves the rec-
ommendations of the VHA Asset and Infrastructure 
Review Commission as submitted by the President on 
lll’’, the blank space being filled with the appro-
priate date; and 
(3) the title of which is as follows: ‘‘Joint resolu-
tion disapproving the recommendations of the VHA 
Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission.’’. 
(b) CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.— 
(1) REPORTING
AND
DISCHARGE.—Any com-
mittee of the House of Representatives to which a 
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joint resolution is referred shall report it to the House 
without amendment not later than 15 legislative days 
after the date of introduction thereof. If a committee 
fails to report the joint resolution within that period, 
the committee shall be discharged from further consid-
eration of the joint resolution. 
(2) PROCEEDING TO CONSIDERATION.—It shall 
be in order at any time after the third legislative day 
after each committee authorized to consider a joint 
resolution has reported or has been discharged from 
consideration of a joint resolution, to move to proceed 
to consider the joint resolution in the House. All 
points of order against the motion are waived. Such 
a motion shall not be in order after the House has 
disposed of a motion to proceed on a joint resolution 
addressing a particular submission. The previous 
question shall be considered as ordered on the motion 
to its adoption without intervening motion. The mo-
tion shall not be debatable. A motion to reconsider the 
vote by which the motion is disposed of shall not be 
in order. 
(3) CONSIDERATION.—The joint resolution shall 
be considered as read. All points of order against the 
joint resolution and against its consideration are 
waived. The previous question shall be considered as 
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ordered on the joint resolution to its passage without 
intervening motion except two hours of debate equally 
divided and controlled by the proponent and an oppo-
nent. A motion to reconsider the vote on passage of 
the joint resolution shall not be in order. 
(c) CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.— 
(1) REFERRAL.—A joint resolution introduced in 
the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Vet-
erans’ Affairs. 
(2) REPORTING
AND
DISCHARGE.—Any com-
mittee of the Senate to which a joint resolution is re-
ferred shall report it to the Senate without amend-
ment not later than 15 session days after the date of 
introduction of a joint resolution described in sub-
section (a). If a committee fails to report the joint res-
olution within that period, the committee shall be dis-
charged from further consideration of the joint resolu-
tion and the joint resolution shall be placed on the 
calendar. 
(3) FLOOR CONSIDERATION.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding Rule 
XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, it is 
in order at any time after the third session day 
on which the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has 
reported or has been discharged from consider-
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ation of a joint resolution described in subsection 
(a) (even though a previous motion to the same 
effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed 
to the consideration of the joint resolution, and 
all points of order against the joint resolution 
(and against consideration of the joint resolu-
tion) are waived. The motion to proceed is not 
debatable. The motion is not subject to a motion 
to postpone. A motion to reconsider the vote by 
which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to 
shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to 
the consideration of the resolution is agreed to, 
the joint resolution shall remain the unfinished 
business until disposed of. 
(B) CONSIDERATION.—Consideration of the 
joint resolution, and on all debatable motions 
and appeals in connection therewith, shall be 
limited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be 
divided equally between the majority and minor-
ity leaders or their designees. A motion further 
to limit debate is in order and not debatable. An 
amendment to, or a motion to postpone, or a mo-
tion to proceed to the consideration of other busi-
ness, or a motion to recommit the joint resolu-
tion is not in order. 
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(C) VOTE ON PASSAGE.—If the Senate has 
voted to proceed to a joint resolution, the vote on 
passage of the joint resolution shall occur imme-
diately following the conclusion of consideration 
of the joint resolution, and a single quorum call 
at the conclusion of the debate if requested in ac-
cordance with the rules of the Senate. 
(D) RULINGS
OF
THE
CHAIR
ON
PROCE-
DURE.—Appeals from the decisions of the Chair 
relating to the application of the rules of the 
Senate, as the case may be, to the procedure re-
lating to a joint resolution shall be decided with-
out debate. 
(d) AMENDMENT NOT IN ORDER.—A joint resolution 
of disapproval considered pursuant to this section shall not 
be subject to amendment in either the House of Representa-
tives or the Senate. 
(e) 
COORDINATION
WITH
ACTION
BY
OTHER 
HOUSE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If, before passing the joint 
resolution, one House receives from the other a joint 
resolution— 
(A) the joint resolution of the other House 
shall not be referred to a committee; and 
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