Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 13 — Public Safety Communications and Electromagnetic Spectrum Auctions
§ 1404. National security restrictions on use of funds and auction participation
Statutory text
Use of funds
No funds made available by subchapter II or III may be used to make payments under a contract to a person described in subsection (c).
Auction participation
A person described in subsection (c) may not participate in a system of competitive bidding under section 309(j) of this title—
that is required to be conducted by this chapter; or
in which any spectrum usage rights for which licenses are being assigned were made available under clause (i) of subparagraph (G) of paragraph (8) of such section, as added by section 6402.
Person described
A person described in this subsection is a person who has been, for reasons of national security, barred by any agency of the Federal Government from bidding on a contract, participating in an auction, or receiving a grant.
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.
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012
Pub. L. 112–96 title VI § 6004 · 126 Stat. 156
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 1404
(Pub. L. 112–96, title VI, § 6004, Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 205.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 112–96, title VI, § 6004, Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 205.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 6004. NATIONAL SECURITY RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF FUNDS AND AUCTION PARTICIPATION. (a) Use of Funds.— No funds made available by subtitle B or C may be used to make payments under a contract to a person described in subsection (c). (b) Auction Participation.— A person described in subsection (c) may not participate in a system of competitive bidding under section 309(j) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 309(j))— (1) that is required to be conducted by this title; or (2) in which any spectrum usage rights for which licenses are being assigned were made available under clause (i) of subparagraph (G) of paragraph (8) of such section, as added by section 6402. (c) Person Described.— A person described in this subsection is a person who has been, for reasons of national security, barred by any agency of the Federal Government from bidding on a contract, participating in an auction, or receiving a grant.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 6402, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is section 6402 of Pub. L. 112–96, which amended section 309 of this title.