Title 16 — Conservation
Part D · Chapter 103 — Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences
§ 8453. Public lands telecommunications cooperative agreements
Statutory text
Cooperative agreements for the Department of the Interior
The Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements to carry out activities related to communications sites on lands managed by Federal land management agencies, including—
administering communications use authorizations;
preparing needs assessments or other programmatic analyses necessary to establish communications sites and authorize communications uses on or adjacent to Federal recreational lands and waters managed by a Federal land management agency;
developing management plans for communications sites on or adjacent to Federal recreational lands and waters managed by a Federal land management agency on a competitively neutral, technology neutral, nondiscriminatory basis;
training for management of communications sites on or adjacent to Federal recreational lands and waters managed by a Federal land management agency;
obtaining, improving access to, or establishing communications sites on or adjacent to Federal recreational lands and waters managed by a Federal land management agency; and
any combination of purposes described in subparagraphs 1 (1) through (5).
Omitted
Assessment of rental fee retention authority
Not later than 1 year after , the Secretary shall conduct a comprehensive assessment to evaluate the potential benefits of rental fee retention whereby any fee collected for the occupancy and use of Federal lands and waters authorized by a communications use authorization would be deposited into a special account and used solely for activities related to communications sites on lands and waters managed by the Secretary.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “paragraphs”.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 118–234 title I § 143 · 138 Stat. 2865
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 8453
(Pub. L. 118–234, title I, § 143, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2865.)
Unresolved: Pub. L. 118–234 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 118–234, title I, § 143, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2865.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is comprised of section 143 of Pub. L. 118–234. Subsec. (b) of section 143 of Pub. L. 118–234 amended section 1761a of Title 43, Public Lands.