[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 191 (Wednesday, October 3, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 56439]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-19486]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Enhanced-Use Lease of VA Property for the Development and 
Operation of an Assisted Living Facility in Viera, FL

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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 an enhanced-use lease of approximately 15 acres 
of undeveloped VA land adjacent to the existing Viera VA Outpatient 
Clinic in Viera, Florida. The selected lessee will finance, design, 
develop, construct, operate, and maintain an assisted living facility 
consisting of not less than 50 units on the property. The lessee will 
be required to provide VA with agreed-upon lease payments and in-kind 
consideration consisting of priority placement and a discount rental 
rate eligible veterans will pay to reside in the assisted living 
facility.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Lavery, Office of Asset Enterprise 
Management (004B), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 273-9583.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 38 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: September 27, 2007.
R. James Nicholson,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. E7-19486 Filed 10-2-07; 8:45 am]
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