[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3603 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3603

To authorize major medical facility projects and major medical facility 
leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1999, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 1998

  Mr. Stump (for himself, Mr. Evans, Mr. Stearns, and Mr. Gutierrez) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize major medical facility projects and major medical facility 
leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1999, 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.

    (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 Department of 
        Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in an 
        amount not to exceed $50,000,000.
            (3) Outpatient clinic expansion at the Department of 
        Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, D.C., in an amount 
        not to exceed $29,700,000.
            (4) Construction of a psychogeriatric care building 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 Department 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 fiscal 
        year 1999 that remain available for obligation.
            (6) Construction of an ambulatory care addition at the 
        Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 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 California 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 
        available for obligation.
    (b) Construction of Parking Facility.--The Secretary may construct 
a parking structure at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
Center, Denver, Colorado, 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 appropriated to the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1999--
            (1) for the Construction, Major Projects, account 
        $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 section 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 category of 
        activity not specific to a project.

SEC. 4. THRESHOLD FOR TREATMENT OF PARKING FACILITY 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''.
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