[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 227 (Friday, November 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72871-72872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-29750]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL) of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
Real Property for the Development of a Transitional Housing Facility on 
a 1-Acre Parcel at the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center (VAMC) in 
Salt Lake City, UT

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of VA intends to enter into an EUL on a 1-acre 
parcel of land at the George E. Wahlen VAMC in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
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 build, operate, and maintain a 
transitional housing facility; provide preference and priority 
placement for homeless Veterans and Veterans at risk of homelessness; 
and provide a

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supportive services program that guides resident Veterans toward 
attaining long-term self-sufficiency.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Bradley, Office of Asset 
Enterprise Management (044C), 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: November 10, 2010.
John R. Gingrich,
Chief of Staff, Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2010-29750 Filed 11-24-10; 8:45 am]
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