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[USC10] 51 USC 50919: Relationship to other executive agencies, laws, and international obligations
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51 USC 50919: Relationship to other executive agencies, laws, and international obligations Text contains those laws in effect on February 16, 2018
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(a) Executive Agencies.-Except as provided in this chapter, a person is not required to obtain from an executive agency a license, approval, waiver, or exemption to launch a launch vehicle or operate a launch site or reentry site, or to reenter a reentry vehicle.
(b) Federal Communications Commission and Secretary of Commerce.-This chapter does not affect the authority of-
(c) States and Political Subdivisions.-A State or political subdivision of a State-
(d) Consultation.-The Secretary of Transportation is encouraged to consult with a State to simplify and expedite the approval of a space launch or reentry activity.
(e) Foreign Countries.-The Secretary of Transportation shall-
(f) Launch Not an Export; Reentry Not an Import.-A launch vehicle, reentry vehicle, or payload that is launched or reentered is not, because of the launch or reentry, an export or import, respectively, for purposes of a law controlling exports or imports, except that payloads launched pursuant to foreign trade zone procedures as provided for under the Foreign Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u) shall be considered exports with regard to customs entry.
(g) Nonapplication.-
(1) In general.-This chapter does not apply to-
(2) Rule of construction.-The following activities are not space activities the Government carries out for the Government under paragraph (1):
( Pub. L. 103–272, §1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1342 , §70117 of title 49; Pub. L. 104–287, §5(95), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3398 ; Pub. L. 105–303, title I, §102(a)(15), Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2850 ; renumbered §70117 then §50919 of title 51 and amended Pub. L. 111–314, §4(d)(2), (3)(S), (5)(T), Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3440–3442 ; Pub. L. 114–90, title I, §112(o), Nov. 25, 2015, 129 Stat. 713 .)
70117(a) 49 App.:2605(c)(1). Oct. 30, 1984, Pub. L. 98–575, §§6(c), 21, 98 Stat. 3058 , 3063.
The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064 , which is classified principally to section 151 et seq. of Title 47, Telecommunications. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of Title 47 and Tables.
The Foreign Trade Zones Act, referred to in subsec. (f), is act June 18, 1934, ch. 590, 48 Stat. 998 , which is classified generally to chapter 1A (§81a et seq.) of Title 19, Customs Duties. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
2015-Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 114–90 amended subsec. (g) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "This chapter does not apply to-
2010-Pub. L. 111–314, §4(d)(2), (3)(S), successively renumbered section 70117 of title 49 and section 70117 of this title as this section.
1998-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–303, §102(a)(15)(A), inserted "or reentry site, or to reenter a reentry vehicle" after "operate a launch site".
1996-Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 104–287 substituted "Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 (15 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.)" for "Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 (15 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.)".