; 38 U.S.C. 7302 note). (D) To pay for expenses, equipment, and other costs associated with the hiring of primary care, specialty care physicians, and other medical staff under subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C). (2) To improve the physical infrastructure of the Department as follows: (A) To maintain and operate hospitals, nursing homes, domiciliary facilities, and other facilities of the Veterans Health Administration. (B) To enter into contracts or hire temporary employees to repair, alter, or improve facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department that are not otherwise provided for under this paragraph. (C) To carry out leases for facilities of the Department. (D) To carry out minor construction projects of the Department. (3) To carry out sections 303 and 401. (c) Funding plan and report (1) In general Not later than 180 days after the date on which amounts are appropriated to the Department pursuant to the authorization in subsection (a), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a funding plan and report on how the Secretary intends to obligate the amounts so appropriated and how it relates to the quadrennial Veterans Health Administration review and strategic plan under section 1730B(a) of title 38, United States Code, as added by section 102. (2) Appropriate committees of congress defined In this subsection, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. 502. Appropriation of amounts for Veterans Choice Program (a) In general There is authorized to be appropriated, and is appropriated, to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,000,000,000 to be deposited in the Veterans Choice Fund under section 802 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–146