This bill reauthorizes the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and changes parts of how it is organized. It sets new funding authorization levels for NTIA for fiscal years 2025 and 2026. It renames the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information as the Under Secretary, creates a Deputy Under Secretary role, and allows the individuals serving in the Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary positions to continue in the new titles without renomination. The bill updates many laws and documents to use the new title.
The bill creates an Office of Spectrum Management inside NTIA. That Office will be led by an Associate Administrator who reports to the Under Secretary. The bill lists duties for the Office, including assigning frequencies for U.S. government radio stations, making frequency allocations, developing techniques and databases, coordinating with the Federal Communications Commission on the National Table of Frequency Allocations, and providing guidance to federal agencies on spectrum use.
The bill also creates an Office of International Affairs inside NTIA. That Office will be led by an Associate Administrator who reports to the Under Secretary. The bill lists duties for that Office, including coordinating international telecommunications and information policy with the Secretary of State, representing NTIA and the United States before international bodies such as the International Telecommunication Union, preparing for international negotiations, and advising other federal agencies on international telecom matters.
The bill changes reporting requirements. It repeals certain older NTIA reports, consolidates several required reports into one annual consolidated report to be published in the first quarter of each calendar year, and adjusts the timing for some grant and program reports. It also extends certain audit and reporting deadlines to cover fiscal years through 2024.
If you follow telecommunications, spectrum, or international telecom policy, this bill changes NTIA leadership titles and creates two new offices focused on spectrum management and international affairs. It changes when and how NTIA must publish and submit several reports and requires NTIA to post a single annual consolidated report in the first quarter of each year.
For most members of the public, the bill makes internal agency and reporting changes. The text does not create new public benefit programs or direct benefits to individuals.
The bill amends the NTIA Organization Act to authorize $57,000,000 for fiscal year 2025 and $57,000,000 for fiscal year 2026. It also amends the pay schedule to add the Under Secretary position to the Executive Schedule and adjusts numbering for Assistant Secretaries; the pay change takes effect the first day of the first pay period after enactment.
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