[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 219 (Monday, November 15, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69742-69743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28632]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL) of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
Real Property for the Restoration of the 1889 Soldiers Home Chapel and 
Rehabilitation of the 1901 Chaplain's Quarters at the Clement J. 
Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Milwaukee, WI

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of VA intends to enter into an EUL of the 1889 
Soldiers Home Chapel (Building 12), the 1901 Chaplain's 
Quarters (Building

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16), and the surrounding approximately 2.5 acres at the 
Clement J. Zablocki VAMC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
    The selected Lessee will finance, design, develop, construct, 
manage, maintain, and operate the Soldiers Home Chapel and Chaplain's 
Quarters. As consideration for the lease, the Lessee will be required 
to restore the Chapel and rehabilitate the Chaplain's Quarters.
    Lessee will also provide referral counseling services for homeless 
Veterans, and set aside at least one room in the Chapel to provide 
counseling and outreach services for homeless Veterans. Lessee will 
provide priority to Veterans and their families for funerals, weddings, 
wedding renewals, multi-denominational and community events and 
presentations.

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 27, 2010.
Eric K. Shinseki,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2010-28632 Filed 11-12-10; 8:45 am]
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