Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 102 Part 1.djvu/533

 PUBLIC LAW 100-322—MAY 20, 1988

102 STAT. 495

effective furnishing of readjustment counseling services to eligible veterans needing such services in the geographic area served by that center. "(C) The Administrator shall make the evaluation described in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph with respect to any center in light of the following: "(i) The distribution of Vietnam-era veterans in the geographic area served by the center and the relationships between the location of such center and the general Veterans' Administration facility and such distribution. "(ii) The distance between the center and the general Veterans' Administration facility. "(iii) The availability of other entities (such as State, local, or private outreach facilities) which provide assistance to Vietnamera veterans in the area served by the center. "(iv) The availability of transportation to, and parking at, the center and the general Veterans' Administration facility. "(v) The availability, cost, and suitability of the space at the general Veterans' Administration facility. "(vi) The overall cost impact of the proposed closure or relocation, including a comparison of the recurring nonpersonnel costs of providing readjustment counseling to the same estimated number of veterans at the center and the general Veterans' Administration facility. "(vii) The workload trends over the two previous fiscal years, and projected over the next fiscal year (or longer), at the center, "(viii) Such other factors as the Administrator determines to be relevant to making the evaluation described in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph. "(D) For the purposes of this paragraph, the term 'general Veterans' Administration facility' means a Veterans' Administration facility which is not a center and at which readjustment counseling would be furnished in a particular geographic area upon the closure or relocation of a center. "(4) After submitting the plan required by paragraph (3) of this subsection, the Administrator may submit to the committees a revision to such plan in order to modify the proposal set forth in the plan as to any center. Any such revision shall include, with respect to each center addressed in the revision, a description of the Administrator's evaluation of the matters specified in paragraphs (3)(B) and (3)(C) of this subsection. "(5) For purposes of determining a period of time under paragraph (I)(B) of this subsection, if the national plan (or a revision to the national plan) is submitted to the committees during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before and ending 60 days after the final day of a session of the (ingress, it shall be deemed to have been submitted on the sixty-first day after the final day of such session.", (d) DEFINITIONS.—Action 612A is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(i) For the purposes of this section: "(1) The term 'center' means a facility (including a Resource Center designated under subsection (h)(3)(A) of this section) which is operated by the Veterans' Administration for the provision of services under this section and which (A) is situated apart from Veterans' Administration general health-care facilities, or (B) was so situated but has been relocated to a Veterans' Administration general health-care facility.

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