2011-29761. Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL) of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Real Property for the Development of a Permanent Housing Facility in Bedford, MA  

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    AGENCY:

    Department of Veterans Affairs.

    ACTION:

    Notice of intent to enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL).

    SUMMARY:

    The Secretary of VA intends to enter into an EUL on an approximately 4.0-acre parcel at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts. 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, operate, and maintain a permanent housing facility; provide preference and priority placement for homeless and at-risk Veterans and their families; and provide a supportive services program.

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    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).

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    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.

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    Approved: November 10, 2011.

    Eric K. Shinseki,

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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    [FR Doc. 2011-29761 Filed 11-16-11; 8:45 am]

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Document Information

Comments Received:
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Published:
11/17/2011
Department:
Veterans Affairs Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Action:
Notice of intent to enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL).
Document Number:
2011-29761
Pages:
71442-71442 (1 pages)
PDF File:
2011-29761.pdf