Sec. 5. Prohibition on Secretary of Veterans Affairs carrying out major medical facility projects
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Subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 8103 the following new section: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may not carry out any major medical facility project. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall carry out all major medical facility projects for the Department. The Chief of Engineers shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out, on a reimbursable basis, design, contract, construction management, and similar services for major medical facility projects pursuant to subsection (b).
Each agreement entered into under paragraph
(1)shall be subject to subsections
(b)through
(e)of section 1535 of title 31. Under an agreement entered into under subsection (c), the Army Corps of Engineers may perform the project, design, contract, and construction management necessary to complete the major medical facility project covered by the agreement, including entering into new contracts in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation to fulfill construction agent responsibilities associated with such project. The Secretary shall provide the Army Corps of Engineers with any documents or information needed for the Army Corps of Engineers to carry out major medical facility projects pursuant to subsection (b). Upon request by the Army Corps of Engineers, the Secretary shall provide to the Army Corps of Engineers, at no cost to the Army Corps of Engineers, any assistance that the Army Corps of Engineers determines necessary to carry out major medical facility projects pursuant to subsection (b). In this section, the term major medical facility project has the meaning given that term in section 8104(a)(3)(A) of this title. This section shall apply with respect to any major medical facility project that begins after the date of the enactment of this section. . The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 8103 the following new item: 8103A. Authority of Army Corps of Engineers to carry out major medical facility projects. . Title 38, United States Code, is further amended— in section 312A(c)— in paragraph (1), by striking The Director of and inserting Except as provided by section 8103A of this title, the Director of ; and in paragraph (2), by striking In carrying out and inserting Except as provided by section 8103A of this title, in carrying out ; in section 8103(a), by striking section 8104 and inserting sections 8103A and 8104 ; in section 8104, by adding at the end the following new subsection: The Secretary shall carry out this section in accordance with section 8103A of this title, including with respect to obligating or expending funds described in this section. ; and in section 8106— in subsection (a), by striking The Secretary may and inserting Subject to section 8103A of this title, the Secretary may ; in subsection (b)(1), by striking The Secretary may and inserting Subject to section 8103A of this title, the Secretary may ; and in subsection (c), by inserting (except under section 8103A) after this subchapter .