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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2171
To improve Federal coordination with respect to spectrum management, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH18, 2025
Mr. B
ALDERSON(for himself and Ms. LEEof Nevada) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To improve Federal coordination with respect to spectrum
management, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Spectrum Coordination 4
Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. IMPROVING SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT. 6
Part A of the National Telecommunications and In-7
formation Administration Organization Act is amended by 8
adding at the end the following: 9
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‘‘SEC. 106. IMPROVING SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT. 1
‘‘(a) F
EDERALCOORDINATIONPROCEDURES.— 2
‘‘(1) N
OTICE.—With respect to each spectrum 3
action, the Assistant Secretary shall file in the pub-4
lic record with respect to such spectrum action, not 5
later than the end of the period for submitting com-6
ments to the Commission with respect to such spec-7
trum action, information (redacted as necessary if 8
the information is protected from disclosure for a 9
reason described in paragraph (3)) regarding— 10
‘‘(A) the date on which the Commission 11
provided to the Assistant Secretary notice of 12
the spectrum action, as required under the 13
Memorandum; 14
‘‘(B) the Federal entities that may be im-15
pacted by the spectrum action; 16
‘‘(C) the date on which the Assistant Sec-17
retary provided to the Federal entities described 18
in subparagraph (B) notice of the spectrum ac-19
tion; 20
‘‘(D) a summary of technical or procedural 21
concerns, if any, of Federal entities with respect 22
to the spectrum action; and 23
‘‘(E) a summary of policy concerns, if any, 24
of the Assistant Secretary with respect to the 25
spectrum action. 26
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‘‘(2) FINAL RULE.—If the Commission promul-1
gates a final rule under section 553 of title 5, 2
United States Code, involving a spectrum action, the 3
Commission shall prepare, make available to the 4
public, and publish in the Federal Register along 5
with the final rule an interagency coordination sum-6
mary that describes— 7
‘‘(A) the date on which the Commission 8
provided to the Assistant Secretary notice of 9
the spectrum action, as required under the 10
Memorandum; 11
‘‘(B) whether concerns were raised under 12
subparagraph (D) or subparagraph (E) of para-13
graph (1) and, if so, the concerns raised; and 14
‘‘(C) how any such concerns were resolved. 15
‘‘(3) R
ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—Nothing in 16
this subsection may be construed to require the dis-17
closure of classified information, or other informa-18
tion reflecting technical, procedural, or policy con-19
cerns that are exempt from disclosure under section 20
552 of title 5, United States Code. 21
‘‘(b) M
EMORANDUM.— 22
‘‘(1) M
EMORANDUM UPDATES .—Not later than 23
3 years after the date of the enactment of this sec-24
tion, and not less frequently than every 4 years 25
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thereafter, the Commission and the NTIA shall up-1
date the Memorandum. 2
‘‘(2) N
ATURE OF UPDATES .—In updating the 3
Memorandum under paragraph (1), the Commission 4
and the NTIA shall ensure that each update reflects 5
changing technological, procedural, and policy cir-6
cumstances, as determined necessary and appro-7
priate by the Commission and the NTIA. 8
‘‘(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 9
‘‘(1) M
EMORANDUM.—The term ‘Memorandum’ 10
means the Memorandum of Understanding between 11
the Commission and the NTIA (relating to increased 12
coordination between Federal spectrum management 13
agencies to promote the efficient use of the radio 14
spectrum in the public interest), signed on August 1, 15
2022, or any successor memorandum. 16
‘‘(2) S
PECTRUM ACTION.—The term ‘spectrum 17
action’ means any proposed action by the Commis-18
sion to reallocate radio frequency spectrum that is 19
anticipated to result in a system of competitive bid-20
ding conducted under section 309(j) of the Commu-21
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 309(j)) or licens-22
ing that could potentially impact the spectrum oper-23
ations of a Federal entity.’’. 24
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