[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 209 (Friday, October 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 67022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-27911]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL) of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
Real Property for a Mixed-Use Development Including a Permanent Housing 
Facility in Knoxville, IA

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL).

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of VA intends to enter into an EUL on 3 parcels 
of land (163 acres) that comprise the entire Knoxville campus of the VA 
Central Iowa Healthcare System. The selected lessee will finance, 
design, develop, construct, manage, maintain and operate the EUL 
development. As consideration for the lease, the lessee will be 
required to construct, renovate, operate, and maintain a mixed use 
development that includes integrated residential, commercial, 
agricultural and technology components. The residential component will 
contain a permanent housing facility for homeless and at-risk Veterans 
and their families where the lessee will give preference and priority 
placement to Veterans and provide supportive services to Veterans.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Bradley, Office of Asset 
Enterprise Management (044), 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: October 21, 2011.
Eric K. Shinseki,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2011-27911 Filed 10-27-11; 8:45 am]
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