107 STAT. 770 PUBLIC LAW 103-79—AUG. 13, 1993 Public Law 103-79 103d Congress An Act Aug. 13, 1993 To authorize mtgor medical facility construction projects for the Department of [H.R. 2034] Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1994, 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 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. (a) AUTHORIZED PROJECTS.— The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may carry out the msgor medical facility leases for the Department of Veterans Affairs for which funds are requested in the budget of the President for fiscal year 1994 and may carry out (or, in the case of the project specified in paragraph (1), participate in) the following major medical facility projects in the amounts specified: (1) Construction in accordance with an agreement between the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of a medical facility at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska, to be shared by the Air Force and the Department of Veterans Affairs, $11,500,000. (2) Construction of a psychiatric building at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lyons, New Jersey, $41,700,000. (3) Modernization and seismic corrections at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, $10,700,000. (4) Construction of a replacement bed building at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma, $33,200,000. (5) Construction of an outpatient care addition and parking garage at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, $46,000,000. (6) Construction, or expansion and modernization, of a 120-bed nursing home facility in the area (referred to as the "Chesapeake network") served by the Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers in Baltimore, Maryland; Fort Howard, Maryland; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Perry Point, Maryland; and Washington, District of Coliunbia, the site for which shall be selected in accordance with subsection (b). (b) SITE SELECTION. — (1) The Secretary, in selecting a site for the project referred to in subsection (a)(6), shall conduct a study to determine the most appropriate location for that facility. In conducting the study, the Secretary shall determine—
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