118 STAT. 2389 PUBLIC LAW 108–422—NOV. 30, 2004 remediation, maintenance and repair, improvements to facili tate the transfer, and administrative expenses. ‘‘(B) Costs, including costs specified in subparagraph (A), associated with future transfers of property under this section. ‘‘(C) Costs associated with enhancing medical care services to veterans by improving, renovating, replacing, updating, or establishing patient care facilities through construction projects to be carried out for an amount less than the amount specified in 8104(a)(3)(A) for a major medical facility project. ‘‘(D) Costs, including costs specified in subparagraph (A), associated with the transfer, lease, or adaptive use of a struc ture or other property under the jurisdiction of the Secretary that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ‘‘(c) The Secretary shall include in the budget justification mate rials submitted to Congress for any fiscal year in support of the President’s budget for that fiscal year for the Department specifica tion of the following: ‘‘(1) The real property transfers to be undertaken in accord ance with this section during that fiscal year. ‘‘(2) All transfers completed under this section during the preceding fiscal year and completed and scheduled to be com pleted during the fiscal year during which the budget is sub mitted. ‘‘(3) The deposits into, and expenditures from, the Fund that are incurred or projected for each of the preceding fiscal year, the current fiscal year, and the fiscal year covered by the budget.’’. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 8117 the following new item: ‘‘8118. Authority for transfer of real property; Department of Veterans Affairs Cap ital Asset Fund.’’. (b) INITIAL AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Asset Fund established under section 8118 of title 38, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), the amount of $10,000,000. (c) TERMINATION OF NURSING HOME REVOLVING FUND.—(1) Sec tion 8116 is repealed. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 81 is amended by striking the item relating to section 8116. (d) TRANSFER OF UNOBLIGATED BALANCES TO CAPITAL ASSET FUND.—Any unobligated balances in the nursing home revolving fund under section 8116 of title 38, United States Code, as of the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deposited in the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Asset Fund established under section 8118 of title 38, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)). (e) PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO TRANSFERS.—(1) Paragraph (2) of section 8122(a) is amended to read as follows: ‘‘(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), the Secretary may not during any fiscal year transfer to any other department or agency of the United States or to any other entity real property that is owned by the United States and administered by the Sec retary unless the proposed transfer is described in the budget submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31 for that fiscal year.’’. 38 USC 8118 note.
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