[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 56 (Friday, March 21, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 15279]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5723]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Enhanced-Use Lease of VA Property for the Development and 
Operation of a Senior Housing Facility for Low Income Veterans at the 
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dayton, OH

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 6 acres of 
underutilized land at the VA Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio. The 
selected lessee will finance, design, develop, construct, operate, 
maintain and manage a facility to provide senior housing for low income 
veterans. The facility will include a single 3-story, newly constructed 
masonry building, with not less than 61 one-bedroom and 6 two-bedroom 
units and associated vehicular parking spaces. The lessee also will be 
required to provide VA with agreed-upon ground rent payments and in-
kind consideration consisting of priority placement and a discount 
rental rate that eligible veterans will pay to reside in the facility.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Bradley, Office of Asset 
Enterprise Management (004B), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461-7778 (this is not 
a toll-free number).

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: March 17, 2008.
James B. Peak,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
 [FR Doc. E8-5723 Filed 3-20-08; 8:45 am]
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