[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 173 (Friday, September 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 51886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-20576]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Enhanced-Use Lease of VA Property for the Development and 
Operation of a Transitional Housing Facility for Eligible Homeless 
Veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Battle 
Creek, MI.

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 6 acres of underutilized 
land at the VA Medical Center in Battle Creek, Michigan. The selected 
lessee will finance, design, develop, construct, operate, manage and 
maintain a transitional housing facility consisting of 75 units and a 
manager's unit. As consideration for the lease, the lessee will be 
required to provide VA with rent, and/or in-kind consideration, 
including furnishing homeless veterans with transitional housing units 
and related services on a priority basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Bradley, Office of Asset 
Enterprise Management (044C), 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 
implementation of a business plan proposed by the Under Secretary for 
Health for applying the consideration under such a lease for 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: August 29, 2008.
James B. Peake,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. E8-20576 Filed 9-4-08; 8:45 am]
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