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38 U.S.C. § 8106 — Construction contracts
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**(a)** The Secretary may carry out any construction or alteration authorized under this subchapter by contract if the Secretary considers it to be advantageous to the United States to do so.
**(b)**
(1) The Secretary may obtain, by contract or otherwise, the services of individuals who are architects or engineers and of architectural and engineering corporations and firms, to the extent that the Secretary may require such services for any medical facility authorized to be constructed or altered under this subchapter.
(2) No corporation, firm, or individual may be employed under the authority of paragraph (1) of this subsection on a permanent basis.
**(c)** Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary shall be responsible for all construction authorized under this subchapter, including the interpretation of construction contracts, the approval of materials and workmanship supplied pursuant to a construction contract, approval of changes in the construction contract, certification of vouchers for payments due the contractor, and final settlement of the contract.
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**(a)** The Secretary may carry out any construction or alteration authorized under this subchapter by contract if the Secretary considers it to be advantageous to the United States to do so.
**(b)**
(1) The Secretary may obtain, by contract or otherwise, the services of individuals who are architects or engineers and of architectural and engineering corporations and firms, to the extent that the Secretary may require such services for any medical facility authorized to be constructed or altered under this subchapter.
(2) No corporation, firm, or individual may be employed under the authority of paragraph (1) of this subsection on a permanent basis.
**(c)** Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Secretary shall be responsible for all construction authorized under this subchapter, including the interpretation of construction contracts, the approval of materials and workmanship supplied pursuant to a construction contract, approval of changes in the construction contract, certification of vouchers for payments due the contractor, and final settlement of the contract.
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For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) The term “alter”, with respect to a medical facility, means to repair, remodel, improve, or extend such medical facility.
(2) The terms “construct” and “alter”, with respect to a medical facility, include such engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies and such surveys, designs, plans, construction documents, specifications, procedures, and other similar actions as are necessary for the construction or alteration, as the case may be, of such medical facility and as are carried out after the completion of the advanced planning (including the development of project requirements and design development) for such facility.
(3) The term “medical facility” means any facility or part thereof which is, or will be, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, or as otherwise authorized by law, for the provision of health-care services (including hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical services), including any necessary building and auxiliary structure, garage, parking facility, mechanical equipment, trackage facilities leading thereto, abutting sidewalks, accommodations for attending personnel, and recreation facilities associated therewith.
(4) The term “committee” means the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, and the term “committees” means both such committees.
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**(a) Training Required.—** The head of each Federal executive agency shall provide training for the human resources personnel of such agency on the following:
(1) The rights, benefits, and obligations of members of the uniformed services under this chapter.
(2) The application and administration of the requirements of this chapter by such agency with respect to such members.
**(b) Consultation.—** The training provided under subsection (a) shall be developed and provided in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
**(c) Frequency.—** The training under subsection (a) shall be provided with such frequency as the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall specify in order to ensure that the human resources personnel of Federal executive agencies are kept fully and currently informed of the matters covered by the training.
**(d) Human Resources Personnel Defined.—** In this section, the term “human resources personnel”, in the case of a Federal executive agency, means any personnel of the agency who are authorized to recommend, take, or approve any personnel action that is subject to the requirements of this chapter with respect to employees of the agency.
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 8105
erans Affairs from any statutory or regulatory obliga-
tions or requirements existing prior to the enactment
of this section and such amendments.’’
§ 8105. Structural requirements
(a) Each medical facility (including each nurs-
ing home facility for which the Secretary con-
tracts under section 1720 of this title and each
State home facility constructed or altered under
subchapter III of this chapter) shall be of fire,
earthquake, and other natural disaster resistant
construction
in
accordance
with
standards
which the Secretary shall prescribe on a State
or regional basis after surveying appropriate
State and local laws, ordinances, and building
codes and climatic and seismic conditions perti-
nent to each such facility. When an existing
structure is acquired for use as a medical facil-
ity, it shall be altered to comply with such
standards.
(b)(1) In order to carry out this section, the
Secretary shall appoint an advisory committee
to be known as the ‘‘Advisory Committee on
Structural Safety of Department Facilities’’, on
which shall serve at least one architect and one
structural engineer who are experts in struc-
tural resistance to fire, earthquake, and other
natural disasters and who are not employees of
the Federal Government.
(2) Such advisory committee shall advise the
Secretary on all matters of structural safety in
the construction and altering of medical facili-
ties in accordance with the requirements of this
section and shall review and make recommenda-
tions to the Secretary on the regulations pre-
scribed under this section.
(3) The Associate Deputy Secretary, the Under
Secretary for Health or the designee of the
Under Secretary for Health, and the Department
official charged wit
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