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16 USC § 8453 - Public lands telecommunications cooperative agreements 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s8453"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 8453 - Public lands telecommunications cooperative agreements"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "8453"
section_name: "Public lands telecommunications cooperative agreements"
chapter_number: 103
chapter_name: "EXPANDING PUBLIC LANDS OUTDOOR RECREATION EXPERIENCES"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "OUTDOOR RECREATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE"
part_number: "D"
part_name: "Broadband Connectivity on Federal Recreational Lands and Waters"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 118–234, title I, § 143, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2865.)"
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# § 8453. Public lands telecommunications cooperative agreements

**(a)** **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—

**(1)** administering communications use authorizations;

**(2)** 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;

**(3)** 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;

**(4)** training for management of communications sites on or adjacent to Federal recreational lands and waters managed by a Federal land management agency;

**(5)** 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

**1** any combination of purposes described in subparagraphs [^1] (1) through (5).

So in original. Probably should be “paragraphs”.

**(b)** **Omitted** 

**(c)** **Assessment of rental fee retention authority** January 4, 2025

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.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 118–234, title I, § 143, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2865.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of . Subsec. (b) of  amended , Public Lands.