# Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL) of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Real Property for the Development of a Permanent Housing Facility in Spokane, WA
**AGENCY:**
Department of Veterans Affairs.
**ACTION:**
Notice of Intent to Enter into an Enhanced-Use Lease (EUL).
**SUMMARY:**
The Secretary of VA intends to enter into an EUL on an approximately 3.0-acre parcel of land at the Spokane VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. The selected lessee will finance, design, develop, construct, manage, maintain and operate the EUL development as a permanent housing facility; provide preference and priority placement for Veterans and their families; and provide a supportive services program.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Edward Bradley, Office of Asset Enterprise Management (044), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420, (202) 461-7778 (this is not a toll-free number).
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
Title 38 U.S.C. 8161 *et seq.* states that the Secretary may enter into an enhanced-use lease if he determines that implementation of a business plan proposed by the Under Secretary for Health for applying the consideration under such a lease for the provision of medical care and services would result in a demonstrable improvement of services to eligible Veterans in the geographic service-delivery area within which the property is located. This project meets this requirement.
Approved: November 10, 2011.
Eric K. Shinseki,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.