[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 191 (Monday, October 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 61150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-25366]


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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 Senior Living Retirement and 
Affordable Housing Community in Fort Howard, MD

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 for 94 acres 
of land and thirty-seven (37) buildings at the Fort Howard VA Campus in 
Fort Howard, Maryland. The selected lessee will finance, design, 
renovate, construct, manage, maintain and operate the EUL development. 
As consideration for the lease, the lessee will be required to provide 
a new community-based outpatient clinic, profit sharing, and discounted 
rent to Veterans residing in the senior living retirement and 
affordable housing community. Fifty units will be set aside to provide 
transitional housing and supportive services for homeless and at-risk 
Veterans.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward L. Bradley, III, Office of 
Asset Enterprise Management (044), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Telephone: (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: September 26, 2011.
Eric K. Shinseki,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2011-25366 Filed 9-30-11; 8:45 am]
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