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108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3061

  To authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of 
 Veterans Affairs in connection with the Capital Asset Realignment for 
  Enhanced Services initiative and to satisfy Department of Veterans 
   Affairs requirements on natural disasters, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 10, 2003

 Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida (for herself, Mr. Acevedo-Vila, and Ms. 
   Berkley) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of 
 Veterans Affairs in connection with the Capital Asset Realignment for 
  Enhanced Services initiative and to satisfy Department of Veterans 
   Affairs requirements on natural disasters, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITY PROJECTS.

    The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the following major 
medical facility projects, with each project to be carried out in an 
amount not to exceed the amount specified for that project:
            (1) Construction of a health care facility at a location in 
        East Central Florida selected by the Secretary, as part of the 
        Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) 
        initiative, $170,000,000.
            (2) Improvements of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
        Medical Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in order to bring that 
        facility into compliance with the CD-54 Natural Disasters 
        Directive, $30,000,000.
            (3) Construction of a health care facility in Las Vegas, 
        Nevada, as part of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced 
        Services initiative, $250,000,000.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated for the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2004 for the 
Construction, Major Projects, account, a total of $450,000,000 for the 
projects authorized in section 1.
    (b) Limitation.--The projects authorized in section 1 may only be 
carried out using--
            (1) funds appropriated for fiscal year 2004 pursuant to the 
        authorization of appropriations in subsection (a);
            (2) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects, 
        for a fiscal year before fiscal year 2004 that remain available 
        for obligation; and
            (3) funds appropriated for Construction, Major Projects, 
        for fiscal year 2004 for a category of activity not specific to 
        a project.
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