[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5346 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5346

To provide for demolition, environmental cleanup, and reversion of the 
 Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Allen Park, Michigan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2000

 Mr. Dingell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for demolition, environmental cleanup, and reversion of the 
 Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Allen Park, Michigan.

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

SECTION 1. DEMOLITION, ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP, AND REVERSION OF 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER, ALLEN 
              PARK, MICHIGAN.

    (a) Authority.--(1) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall enter 
into a multiyear contract with the Ford Motor Land Development 
Corporation (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
``Corporation'') to undertake project management responsibility to--
            (A) demolish the buildings and auxiliary structures 
        comprising the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 
        Allen Park, Michigan; and
            (B) remediate the site of all hazardous material and 
        environmental contaminants found on the site.
    (2) The contract under paragraph (1) may be entered into 
notwithstanding sections 303 and 304 of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253, 254). The contract 
shall be for a period specified in the contract not to exceed seven 
years.
    (b) Contract Cost and Source of Funding.--(1) The Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs may expend no more than $14,000,000 for the contract 
required by subsection (a). The contract shall provide that all costs 
for the demolition and site remediation under the contract in excess of 
$14,000,000 shall be borne by the Corporation.
    (2) Payments by the Secretary under the contract shall be made in 
annual increments of no more than $2,000,000, beginning with fiscal 
year 2001, for the duration of the contract. Such payments shall be 
made from the nonrecurring maintenance portion of the annual Department 
of Veterans Affairs medical care appropriation.
    (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount 
obligated upon the award of the contract may not exceed $2,000,000 and 
the amount obligated with respect to any succeeding fiscal year may not 
exceed $2,000,000. Any funds obligated for the contact shall be subject 
to the availability of appropriated funds.
    (c) Reversion of Property.--Upon completion of the demolition and 
remediation project under the contract to the satisfaction of the 
Secretary, the Secretary shall, on behalf of the United States, 
formally abandon the Allen Park property (title to which will then 
revert in accordance with the terms of the 1937 deed conveying such 
property to the United States).
    (d) Flagpole and Memorial.--The contract under subsection (a) shall 
require that the Corporation shall erect and maintain on the property 
abandoned by the United States under subsection (c) a flagpole and 
suitable memorial identifying the property as the location of the 
former Allen Park Medical Center. The Secretary and the Corporation 
shall jointly determine the placement of the memorial and flagpole and 
the form of, and appropriate inscription on, the memorial.
    (e) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may require 
such additional terms and conditions with regard to the contract with 
the Corporation under subsection (a) and with the reversion of the 
property under subsection (c) as the Secretary considers appropriate to 
protect the interest of the United States.
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