Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 1.djvu/980

 99 STAT. 958

Effective date.

Report.

Prohibition.

Real property.

PUBLIC LAW 99-166—DEC. 3, 1985 personnel area concerned, the Veterans' Administration has a disproportionate number of employees at the salary grade or grades selected for reduction in comparison to the number of such employees at the salary levels involved who perform comparable functions in other departments and agencies of the Federal Government and in non-Federal entities. Any grade reduction described in such report may not take effect until the end of a period of 90 calendar days (not including any day on which either House of Congress is not in session) after the report is received by the committees. "(B) A grade reduction referred to in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph is a systematic reduction, for the purpose of reducing the average salary cost for Veterans' Administration employees described in subparagraph (C) of this paragraph, in the number of such Veterans' Administration employees at a specific grade level. "(C) The employees referred to in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph are— "(i) health-care personnel who are determined by the Administrator to be providing either direct patient-care services or services incident to direct patient-care services; "(ii) individuals who meet the definition of professional employee as set forth in section 7103(a)(15) of title 5; and "(iii) individuals who are employed as computer specialists. "(D) Not later than the forty-fifth day after the Administrator submits a report under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the Comptroller General shall submit to such Committees a report on the Administrator's compliance with such subparagraph. The Comptroller General shall include in the report the Comptroller General's opinion as to the accuracy of the Administrator's determination (and of the data supporting such determination) made under such subparagraph. "(E) In the case of Veterans' Administration employees not described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (3), the Administrator may not in any fiscal year implement a systematic reduction for the purpose of reducing the average salary cost for such Veterans' Administration employees that will result in a reduction in the number of such Veterans' Administration employees at any specific grade level at a rate greater than the rate of the reductions systematically being made in the numbers of employees at such grade level in all other agencies and departments of the Federal Government combined.". SEC. 404. LAND TRANSFER, PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

(a) REQUIREMENT FOR TRANSFER.—The real property described in subsection (b) and the structures on such property on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be transferred without compensation or reimbursement from the control and jurisdiction of the General Services Administration to the control and jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration. (b) DESCRIPTION OF LAND.—The real property referred to in subsection (a) is a tract of land consisting of 3.4 acres, more or less, in Phoenix, Arizona, that— (1) was formerly part of the Veterans' Administration Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; and (2) was declared to be excess to the needs of the Veterans' Administration in a report to the General Services Administration dated September 25, 1959.

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