ATHENS, Ga. - The University of Georgia's proposal for a medical campus at the Navy Supply Corps School is almost a done deal.

UGA and the chairman of an Athens board deciding what to do with the base have agreed in principle to let UGA and the Medical College of Georgia take over the Prince Avenue campus when the Navy vacates it in 2011.

"We've agreed to agree," Buddy Allen, the chairman of the Navy School Local Redevelopment Authority, said Thursday.

Lawyers for both sides are negotiating details of the agreement, and it must be approved at a June 4 meeting by the 17-member LRA, the federal Department of Defense, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Mr. Allen said he'll recommend that the authority approve the deal, but declined to discuss details until it's on paper next week.

"It's a similar structure to what we've discussed in the past," he said.

UGA has agreed to spend $7.8 million to fulfill a federal law requiring that the homeless benefit from closing military bases by building a clinic, shelters, housing and offices on North Avenue, he said.

LRA members have said they want UGA to save historic buildings on the property and leave the northern half for private development if the state Legislature doesn't fund an Athens branch of the MCG School of Medicine.

After UGA missed a May 3 deadline to reach an agreement with the LRA, the authority voted to give the university an extension to May 23, saying it wouldn't offer more time.

Because of the delays, the LRA must apply for an extension on its Aug. 5 deadline to turn its plan in to the Pentagon. Mr. Allen said he's been assured the extension will be granted.