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Sen. Mark R. Warner is frustrated by what he calls “the glacial pace” of two proposed veterans’ health care projects, one of which is slated for the Fredericksburg area.

He sent a letter recently to the heads of the Department of Veterans Affairs and General Service Administration demanding an expedited timeline for them.

The proposed project for the Fredericksburg area is expected to be the largest outpatient Veterans Administration clinic in the country. The other is an outpatient clinic that would be built in South Hampton Roads and run by the GSA. It would help ease the workload at the Hampton VA Medical Center and its associated clinics.

The two clinics are among 28 VA facilities whose leases Congress authorized in 2017. But both the VA and GSA have indicated that the completion of the clinics may take until 2023, more than six years after the leases were approved.

“I am particularly outraged that of the 28 leases approved as part of the 2017 legislation, the two Virginia facilities are among the last to be scheduled for completion," Warner wrote.