H. R. 2034
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three
An Act
To authorize major medical facility construction projects for the Department of
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
VETERANS
AFFAIRS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
(a) AUTHORIZED PROJECTS.—The Secretary of Veterans Affairs
may carry out the major medical facility leases for the Department
of Veterans Affairs for which funds are requested in the budget
of the President for fiscal year 1994 and may carry out (or, in
the case of the project specified in paragraph (1), participate in)
the following major medical facility projects in the amounts speci-
fied:
(1) Construction in accordance with an agreement between
the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs of a medical facility at Elmendorf Air Force Base,
Anchorage, Alaska, to be shared by the Air Force and the
Department of Veterans Affairs, $11,500,000.
(2) Construction of a psychiatric building at the Department
of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lyons, New Jersey,
$41,700,000.
(3) Modernization and seismic corrections at the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis, Ten-
nessee, $10,700,000.
(4) Construction of a replacement bed building at the
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Muskogee,
Oklahoma, $33,200,000.
(5) Construction of an outpatient care addition and parking
garage at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
in San Juan, Puerto Rico, $46,000,000.
(6) Construction, or expansion and modernization, of a
120-bed nursing home facility in the area (referred to as the
‘‘Chesapeake network’’) served by the Department of Veterans
Affairs medical centers in Baltimore, Maryland; Fort Howard,
Maryland; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Perry Point, Maryland;
and Washington, District of Columbia, the site for which shall
be selected in accordance with subsection (b).
(b) SITE SELECTION.—(1) The Secretary, in selecting a site
for the project referred to in subsection (a)(6), shall conduct a
study to determine the most appropriate location for that facility.
In conducting the study, the Secretary shall determine—
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(A) what the specific mission of each medical center oper-
ated by the Secretary in the Chesapeake network should be
to achieve within that network—
(i) effective planning;
(ii) reduction in duplication of services and programs
in the same geographic area;
(iii) realignment of services among facilities within
each network;
(iv) improved means of resource distribution; and
(v) more efficient delivery of needed services;
(B) whether there is a need for expansion and moderniza-
tion of the nursing home care unit at the medical center at
Fort Howard, Maryland; and
(C) what effect the construction of nursing home beds in
Baltimore, Maryland, as proposed in the President’s budget
for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1994,
would have for the missions of each of the other medical centers
operated by the Secretary in the Chesapeake network.
(2) Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veter-
ans Affairs of the Senate and House a report on the study under
paragraph (1). The Secretary shall include in the report a statement
of each determination made by the Secretary under that paragraph.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby authorized to be appropriated
to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1994—
(1) $143,100,000 for the major medical facility projects
authorized in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 101(a) and
such sums as may be necessary for the project described in
section 101(a)(6), but not to exceed $14,500,000 in the case
of construction of nursing home beds in Baltimore, Maryland,
as proposed in the President’s budget for the Department of
Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1994; and
(2) $50,123,105 for the major medical facility leases author-
ized in section 101(a).
(b) LIMITATION.—The projects authorized in section 101 may
only be carried out using—
(1) funds appropriated for fiscal year 1994 pursuant to
the authorization of appropriations in subsection (a);
(2) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects for
a fiscal year before fiscal year 1994 that remain available
for obligation; and
(3) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects for
fiscal year 1994 for a category of activity not specific to a
project.
SEC. 3. INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF FACILITY PROJECT THRESHOLD.
(a) Section 8104(a)(3)(A) of title 38, United States Code, is
amended by striking out ‘‘$2,000,000’’ and inserting in lieu thereof
‘‘$3,000,000’’.
(b) Section 8109(i)(2) of such title is amended by striking out
‘‘$2,000,000’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘$3,000,000’’.
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SEC. 4. INCREASED TERM OF LEASE AUTHORITY RELATING TO PER-
SHING HALL, FRANCE.
Section 403(c)(1) of the Veterans’ Benefits Programs Improve-
ment Act of 1991 (36 U.S.C. 493) is amended by striking out
‘‘35 years’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘99 years’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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