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);
(B) funds appropriated for Construction, Major
Projects, for a fiscal year before fiscal year 1999
that remain available for obligation; and
(C) funds appropriated for Construction, Major
Projects, for a fiscal year before fiscal year 1999 for
a category of activity not specific to a project.
(2) The project authorized in section 1(b) may only
be carried out using funds appropriated for a fiscal year
before fiscal year 1999—
(A) for the Parking Revolving Fund; or
(B) for Construction, Major Projects, for a cat-
egory of activity not specific to a project.
SEC. 4. THRESHOLD FOR TREATMENT OF PARKING FACIL-
ITY PROJECT AS A MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY
PROJECT.
Section 8109(i)(2) of title 38, United States Code,
is amended by striking out ‘‘$3,000,000’’ and inserting
‘‘$4,000,000’’.
SEC. 5. PROCEDURES FOR NAMING OF PROPERTY BY SEC-
RETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 5 of title
38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following new section:
‘‘§ 530. Procedures for naming property
‘‘(a) If the Secretary proposes to designate the name
of any property of the Department other than for the geo-
graphic area in which that property is located, the Sec-
retary shall conduct a public hearing before making the
designation. The hearing shall be conducted in the com-
munity in which the property is located. At the hearing,
the Secretary shall receive the views of veterans service
organizations and other interested parties regarding the
proposed name of the property.
‘‘(b) Before conducting such a hearing, the Secretary
shall provide reasonable notice of the proposed designation
and of the hearing. The notice shall include—
‘‘(1) the time and place of the hearing;
‘‘(2) identification of the property proposed to
be named; and
‘‘(3) identification of the proposed name for the
property;
‘‘(c)(1) If after a hearing under subsection (a) the
Secretary intends to name the property involved other
than for the geographic area in which that property is lo-
cated, the Secretary shall notify the congressional veter-
ans’ affairs committees of the Secretary’s intention to so
name the property and shall publish a notice of such inten-
tion in the Federal Register.
‘‘(2) The Secretary may not designate the property
with a name for which a notice was published in the Fed-
eral Register pursuant to paragraph (1) until the end of
a 60-day period of continuous session of Congress follow-
ing the date of the submission of notice under paragraph
(1). For purposes of the preceding sentence, continuity of
a session of Congress is broken only by an adjournment
sine die, and there shall be excluded from the computation
of such 60-day period any day during which either House
of Congress is not in session during an adjournment of
more than three days to a day certain.
‘‘(3) Each notice under paragraph (1) shall include
the following:
‘‘(A) An identification of the property involved.
‘‘(B) An explanation of the background of, and
rationale for, the proposed name.
‘‘(C) A summary of the views expressed by in-
terested parties at the public hearing conducted in
connection with the proposed name, together with a
summary of the Secretary’s evaluation of those
views.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting
after the item relating to section 529 the following new
item:
‘‘530. Procedures for naming property.’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Section 530 of title 38,
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take
effect as of January 1, 1998.
Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 1998.
Attest:
Clerk.