---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 17701"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "17701"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/17701"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 177 — Alaska Communications Disposal"
---

# §17701. Definitions


In this chapter, the following definitions apply:

- (1) **Agency concerned.—** The term “agency concerned” means a department, agency, wholly owned corporation, or instrumentality of the [Federal Government](/usc/40/17101.md?p=1).
- (2) **Long-lines communication facilities.—** The term “long-lines communication facilities” means the transmission systems connecting points inside the State with each other and with points outside the State by radio or wire, and includes all kinds of [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) and rights of way necessary to accomplish this interconnection.
- (3) **Transfer.—** The term “transfer” means the conveyance by the Government of any element of ownership, including any estate or interest in [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9), and franchise rights, by sale, exchange, lease, easement, or permit, for cash, credit, or other [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) with or without warranty.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1286.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 17701 | 40:771. | Pub. L. 90–135, title I, § 101, Nov. 14, 1967, 81 Stat. 441. |

In clause (1), the word “including” is substituted for “including but not restricted to” to eliminate unnecessary words. The word “estate” is omitted as being included in “interest”.