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Union Calendar No. 165
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2571
[Report No. 105–291]
To authorize major medical facility projects and major medical facility leases
for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1998, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 29, 1997
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
OCTOBER 2, 1997
Additional sponsors: Mr. FILNER and Mr. MASCARA
OCTOBER 2, 1997
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 1998, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY
PROJECTS.
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) Seismic corrections at the Department of
Veterans Affairs medical center in Memphis, Ten-
nessee, in an amount not to exceed $34,600,000.
(2) Seismic corrections and clinical and other
improvements to the McClellan Hospital at Mather
Field, Sacramento, California, in an amount not to
exceed $48,000,000, to be derived only from funds
appropriated for Construction, Major Projects, for a
fiscal year before fiscal year 1998 that remain avail-
able for obligation.
(3) Outpatient improvements at Mare Island,
Vallejo, California, and Martinez, California, in a
total amount not to exceed $7,000,000, to be derived
only from funds appropriated for Construction,
Major Projects, for a fiscal year before fiscal year
1998 that remain available for obligation.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY
LEASES.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may enter into
leases for medical facilities as follows:
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(1) Lease of an information management field
office, Birmingham, Alabama, in an amount not to
exceed $595,000.
(2) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Jack-
sonville, Florida, in an amount not to exceed
$3,095,000.
(3) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, in an amount not to exceed
$5,215,000.
(4) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Can-
ton, Ohio, in an amount not to exceed $2,115,000.
(5) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Port-
land, Oregon, in an amount not to exceed
$1,919,000.
(6) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Tulsa,
Oklahoma, in an amount not to exceed $2,112,000.
(7) Lease of an information resources manage-
ment field office, Salt Lake City, in an amount not
to exceed $652,000.
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year
1998—
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(1) for the Construction, Major Projects, ac-
count, $34,600,000 for the project authorized in sec-
tion 1(1); and
(2) for the Medical Care account, $15,703,000
for the leases authorized in section 2.
(b) LIMITATION.—The projects authorized in section
1 may only be carried out using—
(1) funds appropriated for fiscal year 1998 pur-
suant to the authorization of appropriations in sub-
section (a);
(2) funds appropriated for Construction, Major
Projects for a fiscal year before fiscal year 1998 that
remain available for obligation; and
(3) funds appropriated for Construction, Major
Projects for fiscal year 1998 for a category of activ-
ity not specific to a project.