---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2811"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "2811"
heading: "Private sector"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/2811"
units:
  - "Chapter 46 — Geospatial Data"
---

# §2811. Private sector


The [Committee](/usc/43/2801.md?p=2) and each [covered agency](/usc/43/2801.md?p=3) may, to the maximum extent practical, rely upon and use the private sector in the United States for the provision of [geospatial data](/usc/43/2801.md?p=5) and services.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–254, div. B, title VII, § 759C, Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3427.)
