Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 3.djvu/552

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108 STAT. 2304 PUBLIC LAW 103-327—SEPT. 28, 1994 GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE FACILITIES For grants to assist the several States to acquire or construct State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to remodel, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care to veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 8131-8137), $47,397,000, to remain available until expended. GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS CEMETERIES For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding, or improving State veteran cemeteries as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 2408), $5,378,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) Any appropriation for 1995 for "Compensation and pensions", "Readjustment benefits", and "Veterans insurance and indemnities" may be transferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations. Appropriations available to the Department of Veterans Affairs for 1995 for salaries and expenses shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. No part of the appropriations in this Act for the Department of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations for "Construction, major projects", "Construction, minor projects" and the "Parking revolving fund") shall be available for the purchase of any site for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home. No part of the foregoing appropriations shall be available for hospitalization or examination of any persons except beneficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits to veterans, unless reimbursement of cost is made to the appropriation at such rates as may be fixed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Appropriations available to the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1995 for "Compensation and pensions", "Readjustment benefits", and "Veterans insurance and indemnities" shall be available for payment of prior year accrued obligations required to be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 1994. Appropriations accounts available to the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1995 shall be available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law 100-86, except that if such obligations are from trust fund accounts they shall be payable from "Compensation and pensions". Of the budgetary resources available to the Department of Veterans Affairs during fiscal year 1995, $20,742,000 are permanently canceled. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall allocate the amount of budgetary resources canceled among the Department's accounts available for procurement and procurement-related expenses. Amounts available for procurement and procurementrelated expenses in each such account shall be reduced by the amount allocated to such account. For the purposes of this section, the definition of "procurement" includes all stages of the process of acquiring property or services, beginning with the process of