[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 51 (Friday, March 16, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 12674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-4827]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Enhanced-Use Lease Development of Property at the Department of 
Veterans Affairs (VA) Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center in Sepulveda, CA

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of intent to enter into an enhanced-use lease.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
intends to enter into two enhanced-use leases with a joint venture 
consisting of two not-for-profit organizations. Each enhanced-use lease 
will include a building with an underlying parcel of land. Both parcels 
are located on approximately 5 acres of the VA Sepulveda Ambulatory 
Care Center campus in Sepulveda, California. The lessee would develop, 
finance, renovate, construct, manage, maintain and operate the 
buildings to provide permanent supportive housing and ancillary 
services for the homeless, with priority placement for homeless 
veterans within the community. In addition to such property 
enhancements and veteran services, VA would receive consideration for 
the lease, in the form of in-kind services such as training, use of 
space, and professional counseling services to veteran tenants, and 
cash in the form of a percentage of revenues from certain filmmaking 
activities on the property.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Sexton, Office of Asset 
Enterprise Management (004B), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 273-9470.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 8 U.S.C. 8161 et seq. states that the 
Secretary may enter into an enhanced-use lease if he determines that 
the implementation of a business plan proposed by the Under Secretary 
for Health for applying the consideration under such a lease to the 
provision of medical care and services would result in a demonstrable 
improvement of services to eligible veterans in the geographic service-
delivery area within which the property is located. This project meets 
this requirement.

    Approved: March 8, 2007.
R. James Nicholson,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. E7-4827 Filed 3-15-07; 8:45 am]
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