Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 105 Part 1.djvu/447

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PUBLIC LAW 102-86 —AUG. 14, 1991 105 STAT. 419 "(A) the designated property is to be used only for child-care services; "(B) those services are to be provided only for the benefit of— "(i) employees of the Department; .^. "(ii) individuals employed on the premises of such property; and (iii) employees of a health-personnel educational institution that is affiliated with a Department facility; "(C) over one-half of the employees benefited by the child-care services provided are required to be employees of the Department; and "(D) over one-half of the children to whom child-care services are provided are required to be children of employees of the Department. "§ 8163. Designation of property to be leased "(a) If the Secretary proposes to designate a property to be leased under an enhanced-use lease, the Secretary shall conduct a public hearing before making the designation. The hearing shall be conducted in the community in which the property is located. At the hearing, the Secretary shall receive the views of veterans service organizations and other interested parties regarding the proposed lease of the property and the possible effects of the uses to be made of the property under a lease of the general character then contemplated. The possible effects to be addressed at the hearing shall include effects on— "(1) local commerce and other aspects of the local community; "(2) programs administered by the Department; and "(3) services to veterans in the community. "(b) Before conducting such a hearing, the Secretary shall provide reasonable notice of the proposed designation and of the hearing. The notice shall include— "(1) the time and place of the hearing; "(2) identification of the property proposed to be leased; "(3) a description of the proposed uses of the property under the lease; "(4) a description of how the uses to be made of the property under a lease of the general character then contemplated— { "(A) would contribute in a cost-effective manner to the mission of the Department; "(B) would not be inconsistent with the mission of the Department; and (C) would not adversely affect the mission of the Department; and "(5) a description of how those uses would affect services to veterans. "(c)(1) If after a hearing under subsection (a) the "Secretary intends Federal to designate the property involved, the Secretary shall notify the ^S^^^f- congressional veterans' affairs committees of the Secretary s in- ^" ^^ ^°"' tention to so designate the property and shall publish a notice of such intention in the Federal Register. "(2) The Secretary may not enter into an enhanced-use lease until the end of a 60-day period of continuous session of Congress following the date of the submission of notice under paragraph (1). For purposes of the preceding sentence, continuity of a session of Congress is broken only by an adjournment sine die, and there shall be excluded from the computation of such 60-day period any day during