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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4634 
To provide that certain orders of the Federal Communications Commission 
shall have no force or effect until certain conditions are satisfied, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 22, 2021 
Mr. COOPER (for himself, Mr. TURNER, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. THOMPSON of 
Pennsylvania, Ms. SPANBERGER, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. BEYER, and Mr. CAL-
VERT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide that certain orders of the Federal Communica-
tions Commission shall have no force or effect until 
certain conditions are satisfied, 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 ‘‘Recognizing and En-
suring Taxpayer Access to Infrastructure Necessary for 
GPS and Satellite Communications Act of 2021’’ or the 
‘‘RETAIN GPS and Satellite Communications Act of 
2021’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONDITIONS ON COMMERCIAL TERRESTRIAL OPER-
ATIONS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Communications Commission. 
(2) COVERED GPS DEVICE.—The term ‘‘covered 
GPS device’’ means a device— 
(A) operating to provide, using, or having 
embedded operations requiring access to the 
Global Positioning System satellite constella-
tion; and 
(B) that is used by the Federal Govern-
ment, a non-Federal entity, a private sector en-
tity, or any other person. 
(3) COVERED
ORDER.—The term ‘‘covered 
order’’ means the order and authorization of the 
Commission relating to the LightSquared Technical 
Working Group Report and other matters, adopted 
on April 19, 2020 (FCC 20–48; IB Docket Nos. 11– 
109 and 12–340). 
(4) INTEGRATED PLATFORM.—The term ‘‘inte-
grated platform’’ means a device or system that in-
tegrates Global Positioning System capability or sat-
ellite communications capability into the operation of 
the device or system, as applicable, in such a man-
ner that the Global Positioning System or satellite 
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communications capability cannot be effectively ret-
rofitted without replacing the device or system. 
(5) SATELLITE
COMMUNICATIONS
DEVICE.— 
The term ‘‘satellite communications device’’ means a 
device— 
(A) operating to provide, using, or having 
embedded operations requiring access to sat-
ellite communications; and 
(B) that is used by the Federal Govern-
ment, a non-Federal entity, a private sector en-
tity, or any other person. 
(6) TERRESTRIAL
OPERATIONS
ORDER.—The 
term ‘‘terrestrial operations order’’— 
(A) means an order of the Commission au-
thorizing an entity to deploy commercial terres-
trial operations in the 1525–1559 megahertz 
band or the 1626.5–1660.5 megahertz band; 
and 
(B) includes the covered order. 
(b) RESTRICTION.—Notwithstanding any terrestrial 
operations order adopted by the Commission before, on, 
or after the date of enactment of this Act, no entity may 
deploy commercial terrestrial operations in the 1525–1559 
megahertz band or the 1626.5–1660.5 megahertz band 
until the date that is 90 days after the date on which the 
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Commission determines that the entity has satisfied, or 
has agreed to satisfy, all of the requirements of this sec-
tion, as applicable. 
(c) REQUIRED UPGRADES AND REPAIRS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to obtain authoriza-
tion to deploy commercial terrestrial operations in 
the 1525–1559 megahertz band or the 1626.5– 
1660.5 megahertz band, a licensee shall upgrade, re-
pair, or replace covered GPS devices and satellite 
communications devices potentially impacted by 
those operations, including by bearing the costs of 
any modification, repair, or replacement of equip-
ment, spares, associated ancillary equipment, soft-
ware, facilities, operating manuals, training, or com-
pliance with regulations, including with regard to— 
(A) the underlying platform or system in 
which a Global Positioning System capability is 
embedded; and 
(B) satellite communications systems and 
equipment. 
(2) REIMBURSABLE
COSTS
FOR
AGENCIES.— 
Any costs incurred by a Federal agency due to inter-
ference with operations, as determined and certified 
in writing to the Commission by the Federal agency 
experiencing interference with operations, as a result 
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of the operations carried out under a terrestrial op-
erations order, shall be reimbursed by the licensee, 
including the full costs of— 
(A) any engineering, equipment, software, 
site acquisition, systems design, or construction; 
(B) any legitimate and prudent transaction 
expense, including the hiring of any necessary 
additional staff, including term-limited Federal 
civil servants and contractor staff; 
(C) research, engineering, and other re-
lated studies; 
(D) replacing any device or integrated 
platform 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 
integrated platform that can provide the same 
operational capability, including the currently 
available version of the device or integrated 
platform (or a reasonable equivalent); 
(E) in the case of costs incurred by the 
Department of Defense, the labor cost of De-
partment of Defense personnel or external per-
sonnel in engineering, validating, and verifying 
any required remediation in order to provide 
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