I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1888 
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
Organization Act to provide incentives for the reallocation of Federal 
Government spectrum for commercial use, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 4, 2017 
Mr. GUTHRIE (for himself and Ms. MATSUI) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration Organization Act to provide incentives 
for the reallocation of Federal Government spectrum for 
commercial use, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Spectrum In-
centive Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL SPECTRUM INCENTIVES. 
(a) NOTICE TO COMMISSION.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 113(g)(4) of the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Admin-
istration Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 923(g)(4)) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking the heading and inserting 
‘‘NOTICE TO COMMISSION.—’’; 
(B) in the second sentence of subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘shall notify the Com-
mission’’ and all that follows and inserting the 
following: ‘‘shall notify the Commission— 
‘‘(i) of estimated relocation or sharing 
costs and timelines for such relocation or 
sharing; or 
‘‘(ii) that, instead of relocation or 
sharing costs under this subsection and 
section 118, a Federal entity will receive 
payment under section 120 because such 
entity is— 
‘‘(I) discontinuing the operations 
that the Federal entity conducts on 
such eligible frequencies without relo-
cating such operations to other fre-
quencies; or 
‘‘(II) relocating such operations 
to frequencies assigned to another 
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Federal entity in order for such enti-
ties to share such frequencies.’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) This subsection and section 118 shall 
not apply with respect to the discontinuance of 
operations on eligible frequencies or the reloca-
tion of such operations by a Federal entity after 
the Commission receives notice under subpara-
graph (A)(ii) with respect to such discontinu-
ance or relocation.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Section 
113(g) of the National Telecommunications and In-
formation Administration Organization Act (47 
U.S.C. 923(g)) is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (3)(A)(iii)(I), by striking 
‘‘paragraph (4)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 
(4)(A)(i)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘subparagraph (A)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
paragraph (A)(i)’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘subparagraphs (A) and (B)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘subparagraphs (A)(i) and (B)’’; and 
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(C) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘para-
graph 
(4)(A)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘paragraph 
(4)(A)(i)’’. 
(b) TRANSITION PLANS.—Section 113(h) of the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Administra-
tion Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 923(h)) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘RELOCATION 
OR SHARING’’; 
(2) by amending paragraph (1) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(1) DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSITION PLAN BY 
FEDERAL ENTITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 240 
days before the commencement of any auction 
of eligible frequencies described in subsection 
(g)(2), a Federal entity authorized to use any 
such frequency shall submit to the NTIA and 
to the Technical Panel established by paragraph 
(3) a transition plan in which the Federal enti-
ty— 
‘‘(i) declares the intention of such en-
tity— 
‘‘(I) to share such eligible fre-
quencies with a non-Federal user or 
to relocate to other frequencies, and 
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to receive relocation or sharing costs 
from the Spectrum Relocation Fund 
established by section 118; or 
‘‘(II) to discontinue the oper-
ations that the Federal entity con-
ducts on such eligible frequencies 
without relocating such operations to 
other frequencies or to relocate such 
operations to frequencies assigned to 
another Federal entity in order for 
such entities to share such fre-
quencies, and to receive payment from 
the Federal Spectrum Incentive Fund 
established by section 120; and 
‘‘(ii) describes how the entity will im-
plement the relocation, sharing, or dis-
continuance arrangement. 
‘‘(B) COMMON FORMAT.—The NTIA shall 
specify, after public input, a common format for 
all Federal entities to follow in preparing tran-
sition plans under this paragraph.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ‘‘, to 
discontinue such use,’’ after ‘‘from such fre-
quencies’’; 
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(B) in subparagraph (F), by inserting ‘‘, 
discontinuance,’’ after ‘‘relocation’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘The 
plans’’ and inserting ‘‘To the extent applicable 
given the intention declared by the entity under 
paragraph (1)(A)(i), the plans’’; 
(4) in paragraph (4)(A), by inserting ‘‘(if appli-
cable)’’ after ‘‘timelines and’’; 
(5) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘(if applicable)’’ after 
‘‘costs’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, discontinuance,’’ after 
‘‘relocation’’ the second place it appears; and 
(6) in paragraph (7)(A)(ii), by inserting ‘‘, dis-
continuance,’’ after ‘‘relocation’’. 
(c) RELOCATION OR DISCONTINUANCE PRIORITIZED 
OVER SHARING.—Section 113(j) of the National Tele-
communications and Information Administration Organi-
zation Act (47 U.S.C. 923(j)) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘OR DIS-
CONTINUANCE’’ after ‘‘RELOCATION’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘or discontinuance of the oper-
ations that the Federal entity conducts on the band’’ 
after ‘‘from the band’’ each place it appears. 
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