the Department of Defense with the same oper-
ational capability for the affected system before 
terrestrial operation in the 1525–1559 mega-
hertz band or the 1626.5–1660.5 megahertz 
band; 
(F) in the case of costs incurred by any 
Federal agency that is a member of the Inter-
department Radio Advisory Committee, the 
labor costs of those Federal agency personnel or 
external personnel in engineering, validating, 
and verifying any required remediation in order 
to provide any Federal agency that is a member 
of the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Com-
mittee with the same operational capability for 
the affected system before terrestrial operation 
in the 1525–1559 megahertz band or the 
1626.5–1660.5 megahertz band; and 
(G) other related expenses reasonably in-
curred. 
(3) REIMBURSABLE
COSTS
FOR
OTHER
PER-
SONS.—Any costs incurred by a person, including a 
non-Federal or private sector entity, due to inter-
ference with operations, as determined and certified 
in writing to the Commission by the person experi-
encing interference with operations, as a result of 
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the operations carried out under a terrestrial oper-
ations order, shall be reimbursed by the licensee, in-
cluding the full costs of— 
(A) any engineering, equipment, software, 
site acquisition, systems design, or construction; 
(B) replacement of satellites; 
(C) any legitimate and prudent transaction 
expense, including the hiring of any necessary 
term-limited civil servants and contractor staff; 
(D) research, engineering, and other re-
lated studies; 
(E) replacing any device or integrated plat-
form that suffers interference as a result of the 
conduct of commercial terrestrial operations in 
the 1525–1559 megahertz band or the 1626.5– 
1660.5 megahertz band with a device or inte-
grated platform that can provide the same oper-
ational capability, including the currently avail-
able version of the device or integrated platform 
(or a reasonable equivalent); 
(F) the labor costs of personnel in engi-
neering, validating, and verifying any required 
remediation in order to provide the person, 
company, or other private sector entity with the 
same operational capability for the affected sys-
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tem before terrestrial operation in the 1525– 
1559 megahertz band or the 1626.5–1660.5 
megahertz band; and 
(G) other related expenses reasonably in-
curred. 
(4) TRANSFERABILITY OF REIMBURSABLE EX-
PENSES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM FED-
ERAL
COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
ORDER
20– 
48.—All reimbursable expenses owed to a Federal 
agency, person, or other private sector entity that 
are causally attributable to implementing a terres-
trial operations order shall transfer to and be borne 
by any assignee, successor, or purchaser of any li-
cense that authorizes terrestrial operations in ac-
cordance with that order. 
(5) CERTAIN
PAYMENTS
PERMITTED.—Not-
withstanding section 1341, subchapter II of chapter 
15, or section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, 
a Federal agency may collect or receive any money 
or other thing of value from a private entity as pay-
ment or reimbursement under this section. 
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