---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 1425"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "1425"
heading: "Advisory committees of the First Responder Network Authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/1425"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Public Safety Communications and Electromagnetic Spectrum Auctions"
  - "Subchapter II — Governance of Public Safety Spectrum"
---

# §1425. Advisory committees of the First Responder Network Authority

- (a) **Advisory committees—** The [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15)—
  - (1) shall establish a standing public safety advisory committee to assist the [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15) in carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this subchapter; and
  - (2) may establish additional standing or ad hoc committees, panels, or councils as the [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15) determines are necessary.
- (b) **Selection of agents, consultants, and experts—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15) shall select parties to serve as its agents, consultants, or experts in a fair, transparent, and objective manner, and such agents may include a program manager to carry out certain of the duties and responsibilities of deploying and operating the [nationwide public safety broadband network](/usc/47/1401.md?p=21) described in subsections (b) and (c) of [section 1426 of this title](/usc/47/1426.md).
  - (2) **Binding and final—** If the selection of an agent, consultant, or expert satisfies the requirements under [paragraph (1)](#b-1), the selection of that agent, consultant, or expert shall be final and binding.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 112–96, title VI, § 6205, Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 211.)