[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2571 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 2571


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 7, 1997

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

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, Tennessee, 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 
        available 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:
            (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, Jacksonville, 
        Florida, in an amount not to exceed $3,095,000.
            (3) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Boston, 
        Massachusetts, in an amount not to exceed $5,215,000.
            (4) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Canton, Ohio, 
        in an amount not to exceed $2,115,000.
            (5) Lease of a satellite outpatient clinic, Portland, 
        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 management 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 appropriated to the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1998--
            (1) for the Construction, Major Projects, account, 
        $34,600,000 for the project authorized in section 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 pursuant to the 
        authorization of appropriations in subsection (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 activity not specific to a 
        project.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 6, 1997.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.