71 FR 47 pgs. 12436-12437 - Enhanced-Use Lease Development of Property at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Type: NOTICEVolume: 71Number: 47Pages: 12436 - 12437
FR document: [FR Doc. E6-3466 Filed 3-9-06; 8:45 am]
Agency: Veterans Affairs Department
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Enhanced-Use Lease Development of Property at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
AGENCY:
Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION:
Notice of Intent to Enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease.
SUMMARY:
The Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) intends to enter into an enhanced-use lease of approximately 6.7 acres at the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The selected lessee would develop, finance, construct, manage, maintain and operate a commercial office building to house medical-related research and other permitted activities and an adjacent, smaller restaurant/retail building. The lessee would also be required to provide VA with monetary and in-kind consideration consisting of certain renovation and improvement work on the VAMC campus.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Raymond N. Palmer, Office of Asset Enterprise Management (004B), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 273-8862.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
38 U.S.C. 8161 et seq. specifically provides that the Secretary may enter into an enhanced-use lease if he determines that the implementation of a business plan proposed by the Under Secretary for Health for applying the consideration under such a lease to 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: March 3, 2006.
R. James Nicholson,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. E6-3466 Filed 3-9-06; 8:45 am]
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