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USC-33 / Property, construction and housing

Charge and retain fees for civil use of military airfields

Impose uniform landing fees on civil aircraft using military airfields and credit the receipts to airfield operations and maintenance.

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Authority / instrument · USC-33

Civil-aircraft landing fees

Property, construction and housing

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Fee authority does not itself approve otherwise prohibited civil access or joint use.

Recorded executor

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedLanding-fee receipts may fund the operation and maintenance of the relevant airfield under the statutory crediting rule. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolUSC-33 · Funds & shared services
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §2697

Authority holder: Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts

Funds & shared services

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Apply the uniform fee schedule and credit receipts to the current-fiscal-year airfield O&M appropriation.
  • Determine whether a lease, license, or other real-estate agreement already provides landing-fee consideration and offset the appropriate amounts.

Limits & exclusions

  • Fee authority does not itself approve otherwise prohibited civil access or joint use.
  • Receipts retain the purposes and availability period of the credited appropriation.

Funding conditions

  • Landing-fee receipts may fund the operation and maintenance of the relevant airfield under the statutory crediting rule.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed

Resources

  • Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified

Approval

  • Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts; any delegation must be verified
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Partners & review

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. §2697Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedLanding-fee receipts may fund the operation and maintenance of the relevant airfield under the statutory crediting rule. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.

Currentness: Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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