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[CITE: 38USC8101]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
            PART VI--ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
 
   CHAPTER 81--ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF HOSPITAL AND DOMICILIARY 
FACILITIES; PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY; ENHANCED-USE LEASES OF REAL PROPERTY
 
      SUBCHAPTER I--ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF MEDICAL FACILITIES
 
Sec. 8101. Definitions

    For the purposes of this subchapter:
    (1) The term ``alter'', with respect to a medical facility, means to 
repair, remodel, improve, or extend such medical facility.
    (2) The terms ``construct'' and ``alter'', with respect to a medical 
facility, include such engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and 
economic investigations and studies and such surveys, designs, plans, 
construction documents, specifications, procedures, and other similar 
actions as are necessary for the construction or alteration, as the case 
may be, of such medical facility and as are carried out after the 
completion of the advanced planning (including the development of 
project requirements and design development) for such facility.
    (3) The term ``medical facility'' means any facility or part thereof 
which is, or will be, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary for the 
provision of health-care services (including hospital, nursing home, or 
domiciliary care or medical services), including any necessary building 
and auxiliary structure, garage, parking facility, mechanical equipment, 
trackage facilities leading thereto, abutting sidewalks, accommodations 
for attending personnel, and recreation facilities associated therewith.
    (4) The term ``committee'' means the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of 
the Senate, and the term ``committees'' means both such committees.

(Added Pub. L. 96-22, title III, Sec. 301(a), June 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 
55, Sec. 5001; renumbered Sec. 8101, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, 
Sec. 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; amended Pub. L. 102-83, 
Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405; Pub. L. 104-262, 
title II, Sec. 207(a), Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3190.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Par. (2). Pub. L. 104-262 substituted ``construction 
documents'' for ``working drawings'' and ``design development'' for 
``preliminary plans''.
    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 5001 of this title as this 
section.
    Par. (3). Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Secretary'' for 
``Administrator''.


                             Effective Date

    Section 302 of Pub. L. 96-22 provided that:
    ``(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the 
amendments made by section 301 [enacting this subchapter, redesignating 
sections 5011 to 5014 of this title as sections 5021 to 5024 [now 8121 
to 8124], respectively, and amending section 5022 [now 8122] of this 
title as so redesignated] shall take effect on October 1, 1979.
    ``(b)(1) The amendments made by section 301 shall not apply with 
respect to the acquisition, construction, or alteration of any medical 
facility (as defined in section 5001(3) [now 8101(3)] of title 38, 
United States Code, as amended by section 301(a) of this Act) if such 
acquisition, construction, or alteration (not including exchange) was 
approved before October 1, 1979, by the President.
    ``(2) The provisions of section 5007(a) [now 8107(a)] of title 38, 
United States Code, as amended by section 301(a) of this Act, shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [June 13, 1979].''
