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                                                 Union Calendar No. 421
114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4590

                          [Report No. 114-545]

  To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out certain 
major medical facility projects for which appropriations are being made 
             for fiscal year 2016, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2016

Mr. Miller of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

                              May 10, 2016

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           February 23, 2016]


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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out certain 
major medical facility projects for which appropriations are being made 
             for fiscal year 2016, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fiscal Year 2016 Department of 
Veterans Affairs Seismic Safety, Construction, and Leases Authorization 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECTS OF THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Authorization.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out 
the following major medical facility projects, with each project to be 
carried out in an amount not to exceed the amount specified for that 
project:
            (1) Seismic corrections to buildings, including 
        retrofitting and replacement of high-risk buildings, in San 
        Francisco, California, in an amount not to exceed $175,880,000.
            (2) Seismic corrections to facilities, including facilities 
        to support homeless veterans, at the medical center in West Los 
        Angeles, California, in an amount not to exceed $100,250,000.
            (3) Seismic corrections to the mental health and community 
        living center in Long Beach, California, in an amount not to 
        exceed $282,100,000.
            (4) Construction of an outpatient clinic, administrative 
        space, cemetery, and columbarium in Alameda, California, in an 
        amount not to exceed $83,782,000.
            (5) Realignment of medical facilities in Livermore, 
        California, in an amount not to exceed $188,650,000.
            (6) Construction of a replacement community living center 
        in Perry Point, Maryland, in an amount not to exceed 
        $92,700,000.
            (7) Seismic corrections and other renovations to several 
        buildings and construction of a specialty care building in 
        American Lake, Washington, in an amount not to exceed 
        $13,830,000.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations for Construction.--There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for 
fiscal year 2016 or the year in which funds are appropriated for the 
Construction, Major Projects, account, $937,192,000 for the projects 
authorized in subsection (a).
    (c) Limitation.--The projects authorized in subsection (a) may only 
be carried out using--
            (1) funds appropriated for fiscal year 2016 pursuant to the 
        authorization of appropriations in subsection (b);
            (2) funds available for Construction, Major Projects, for a 
        fiscal year before fiscal year 2016 that remain available for 
        obligation;
            (3) funds available for Construction, Major Projects, for a 
        fiscal year after fiscal year 2016 that remain available for 
        obligation;
            (4) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects, 
        for fiscal year 2016 for a category of activity not specific to 
        a project;
            (5) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects, 
        for a fiscal year before fiscal year 2016 for a category of 
        activity not specific to a project; and
            (6) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects, 
        for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2016 for a category of 
        activity not specific to a project.

SEC. 3. SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
for each project authorized in section 2(a), the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate the following information:
            (1) A line item accounting of expenditures relating to 
        construction management carried out by the Department of 
        Veterans Affairs for such project.
            (2) The future amounts that are budgeted to be obligated 
        for construction management carried out by the Department for 
        such project.
            (3) A justification for the expenditures described in 
        paragraph (1) and the future amounts described in paragraph 
        (2).
            (4) Any agreement entered into by the Secretary regarding 
        the Army Corps of Engineers providing services relating to such 
        project, including reimbursement agreements and the costs to 
        the Department of Veterans Affairs for such services.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY LEASES.

    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the following major 
medical facility leases at the locations specified, and in an amount 
for each lease not to exceed the amount shown for such location (not 
including any estimated cancellation costs):
            (1) For an outpatient clinic, Ann Arbor, Michigan, an 
        amount not to exceed $17,093,000.
            (2) For an outpatient mental health clinic, Birmingham, 
        Alabama, an amount not to exceed $6,971,000.
            (3) For an outpatient specialty clinic, Birmingham, 
        Alabama, an amount not to exceed $10,479,000.
            (4) For research space, Boston, Massachusetts, an amount 
        not to exceed $5,497,000.
            (5) For research space, Charleston, South Carolina, an 
        amount not to exceed $6,581,000.
            (6) For an outpatient clinic, Daytona Beach, Florida, an 
        amount not to exceed $12,664,000.
            (7) For Chief Business Office Purchased Care office space, 
        Denver, Colorado, an amount not to exceed $17,215,000.
            (8) For an outpatient clinic, Gainesville, Florida, an 
        amount not to exceed $4,686,000.
            (9) For an outpatient clinic, Hampton Roads, Virginia, an 
        amount not to exceed $18,124,000.
            (10) For research space Mission Bay, California, an amount 
        not to exceed $23,454,000.
            (11) For an outpatient clinic, Missoula, Montana, an amount 
        not to exceed $7,130,000.
            (12) For an outpatient clinic, Northern Colorado, Colorado, 
        an amount not to exceed $8,776,000.
            (13) For an outpatient clinic, Ocala, Florida, an amount 
        not to exceed $5,279,000.
            (14) For an outpatient clinic, Oxnard, California, an 
        amount not to exceed $6,297,000.
            (15) For an outpatient clinic, Pike County, Georgia, an 
        amount not to exceed $5,757,000.
            (16) For an outpatient clinic, Portland, Maine, an amount 
        not to exceed $6,846,000.
            (17) For an outpatient clinic, Raleigh, North Carolina, an 
        amount not to exceed $21,607,000.
            (18) For an outpatient clinic, Santa Rosa, California, an 
        amount not to exceed $6,498,000.

SEC. 5. MONTHLY REPORTS ON STATUS OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECTS.

    (a) Reports Required.--For each month that begins after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a 
report on the status of each major medical facility project authorized 
under section 2. Each such report shall include, for each project 
covered by the report, information about the status of the design and 
procurement planning, contract modification management, and cost 
escalation of the project.
    (b) Termination.--The requirement to submit monthly reports under 
this section shall terminate on the date on which the Administrative 
Investigative Board of the Department of Veterans Affairs submits to 
Congress the report of the Administrative Investigative Board on the 
major medical facility project carried out at the Department medical 
center in Aurora, Colorado.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF SALE OF PERSHING HALL.

    Section 403 of the Veterans' Benefits Programs Improvement Act of 
1991 (Public Law 102-86; 38 U.S.C. 2400 note) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Authorization of Sale.--(1) The Secretary may sell for fair 
market value Pershing Hall and transfer and convey to the purchaser all 
right, title, and interest of the United States in or to such property. 
The Secretary shall determine fair market value based on an independent 
assessment conducted by another department or agency of the Federal 
Government or a nongovernmental entity. The Secretary may only accept 
money as consideration for such sale.
    ``(2) If the Secretary sells Pershing Hall pursuant to paragraph 
(1), the Secretary shall return to the entity from which the United 
States acquired Pershing Hall pursuant to the Act of June 28, 1935, 
(Chapter 323; 49 Stat. 426) any personal property (including 
memorabilia regarding General Pershing and the American Expeditionary 
Forces in France during World War I) in the possession of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs as of the date of the enactment of this 
subsection that was located in Pershing Hall (or otherwise associated 
with Pershing Hall) on the date of such acquisition.
    ``(3) The funds received by the Secretary pursuant to the sale of 
Pershing Hall under paragraph (1) shall be deposited in the 
`Construction, Major Projects' account of the Department and be made 
available, without fiscal year limitation, for the purposes of such 
account.
    ``(4)(A) Effective on the day after the date of the sale of 
Pershing Hall authorized under paragraph (1), the authority of the 
Secretary to carry out subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) shall 
terminate except for purposes of carrying out paragraph (2) of this 
subsection.
    ``(B) Effective on the date that is one year after the date of the 
sale of Pershing Hall authorized under paragraph (1), the Pershing Hall 
Revolving Fund shall be abolished and the corpus of the fund, including 
accrued interest, shall be deposited in the `Construction, Major 
Projects' account of the Department and be made available, without 
fiscal year limitation, for the purposes of such account.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 421

114th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4590

                          [Report No. 114-545]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out certain 
major medical facility projects for which appropriations are being made 
             for fiscal year 2016, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              May 10, 2016

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed