{
  "id": "USC-33",
  "category": "Civil-aircraft landing fees",
  "capability": "Charge and retain fees for civil use of military airfields",
  "summary": "Impose uniform landing fees on civil aircraft using military airfields and credit the receipts to airfield operations and maintenance.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2697",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts; any delegation must be verified"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §2697: statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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": [
    "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": [
    "Landing-fee receipts may fund the operation and maintenance of the relevant airfield under the statutory crediting rule."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "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.",
  "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.",
  "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.",
  "family": "Property, construction and housing",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "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."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Funds & shared services"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts; any delegation must be verified"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "property-construction-and-housing",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-33",
    "name": "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified",
    "label": "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-33/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Landing-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.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-33/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-33/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "Fee authority does not itself approve otherwise prohibited civil access or joint use."
}