Sec. 709. Authority to plan, design, and construct, or lease, shared medical facilities with Department of Veterans Affairs
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Chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1104 the following new section: The Secretary of Defense may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the planning, design, and construction, or the leasing, of facilities to be operated as shared medical facilities. The Secretary of Defense may transfer to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs amounts as follows: Amounts, not in excess of the amount authorized by law for an unspecified minor military construction project, for the construction of a shared medical facility if— the amount of the share of the Department of Defense for the estimated cost of the project does not exceed the amount authorized under section 2805(a)(2) of this title; and the other requirements of such section have been met with respect to funds identified for transfer.
Amounts appropriated for the Defense Health Program for the purpose of the planning, design, and construction, or the leasing of space, for a shared medical facility. The authority to transfer funds under this section is in addition to any other authority to transfer funds available to the Secretary of Defense. Section 2215 of this title does not apply to a transfer of funds under this subsection. Any amount transferred under title 38 to the Secretary of Defense by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for necessary expenses for the planning, design, and construction of a shared medical facility, where the amount of the share of the Department of Defense for the cost of such project does not exceed the amount specified in section 2805(a)(2) of this title, may be credited to accounts of the Department of Defense available for the construction of a shared medical facility.
Amounts transferred under title 38 to the Secretary of Defense by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of the planning and design, or the leasing of space, for a shared medical facility may be credited to accounts of the Department of Defense available for such purposes, and may be used for such purposes. Using accounts credited with transfers from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense may carry out unspecified minor military construction projects, if the share of the Department of Defense for the cost of such project does not exceed the amount specified in section 2805(a)(2) of this title.
Any amount transferred to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to subsection (b), and any amount transferred to the Secretary of Defense as described in subsection (c), shall be merged with, and be available for the same purposes and the same time period as, the appropriation or fund to which transferred. In this section, the term shared medical facility means a building or buildings, or a campus, intended to be used by both the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs for the provision of health-care services, whether under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and whether or not located on a military installation or on real property under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Such term includes any necessary building and auxiliary structure, garage, parking facility, mechanical equipment, abutting sidewalks, and accommodations for attending personnel. . The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1104 the following new item: 1104a. Shared medical facilities with Department of Veterans Affairs. .