AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECTS AND MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY LEASES.

SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECTS AND MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY LEASES. (a) Projects Authorized.— The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the major medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and may carry out the major medical facility leases for that Department, for which funds are requested in the budget of the President for fiscal year 1995. The authorization in the preceding sentence applies to projects and leases which have not been authorized, or for which funds have not been appropriated, in any fiscal year before fiscal year 1995 and to projects and leases which have been authorized, or for which funds were appropriated, in fiscal years before fiscal year 1995. (b) Additional Projects.— (1) In addition to the projects authorized in subsection (a), the Secretary may carry out the following major medical facility projects in the amounts specified for such projects: (A) The projects that are proposed in the documents submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in conjunction with the budget of the President for fiscal year 1995108 STAT. 4788 to be financed with funds from the proposed Health Care Investment Fund. (B) Construction of a nursing home facility at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina, in the amount of $7,300,000. (C) Construction of an outpatient care addition at the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Phoenix, Arizona, in the amount of $50,000,000. (D) A lease/purchase of a nursing home facility near Fort Myers, Florida, in the amount of $12,800,000. (2) The authorizations in paragraph (1) apply to projects which have not been authorized, or for which funds have not been appropriated, in any fiscal year before fiscal year 1995 and to projects which have been authorized, or for which funds were appropriated, in fiscal years before fiscal year 1995. (c) Projects for Which Funds Appropriated.— In addition to the projects authorized in subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary may carry out the following major medical facility projects for which funds were appropriated in chapter 7 of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1994 (title I of Public Law 103–211; 108 Stat. 10) in the amounts specified: (1) Construction of an ambulatory care/support services facility at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Sepulveda, California, $53,700,000. (2) Other major medical facility projects required to repair, restore, or replace earthquake-damaged facilities at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Sepulveda, California, $50,000,000.