Sec. 204. Report on options to improve minor construction program of Department of Veterans Affairs
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on potential options and alternatives to improve, reform, and provide more flexibility to the minor construction activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs so as to increase effectiveness in commencing and delivering minor construction capital asset projects. The report submitted under subsection
(a)shall include the following: A discussion regarding legislative or administrative action to define the term minor construction for purposes of Department budgeting and accounting by using an automatic adjustment of the threshold using— an index to adjust for inflation; and another index to adjust for regional variations and trends in the cost of construction. A discussion of whether the practice of the Department entering into multiple minor construction projects rather than one larger major construction project is an efficient best practice for delivery of capital asset projects. A discussion of whether the Department should adopt any best practices of other Federal agencies or non-Federal entities for its minor construction capital asset projects. Such other suggestions for legislative or administrative action as the Secretary may have with respect to the management, including project thresholds, of minor construction capital asset projects. Such other matters as the Secretary considers appropriate. In this section: The term major construction means capital project to construct, alter, extend, or improve any facility that involves a total expenditure of more than $20,000,000, including a major medical facility project (as defined in section 8104(a)(3) of title 38, United States Code). The term minor construction means a capital project to construct, alter, extend, or improve any facility that involves a total expenditure of $20,000,000 or less.