---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 309a"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "309a"
heading: "Reports related to spectrum auctions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/309a"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Provisions Relating to Radio"
  - "Part I — General Provisions"
---

# §309a. Reports related to spectrum auctions

- (a) **Omitted—**
- (b) **Auction expenditure justification report—** Not later than April 1, 2019, and annually thereafter, the Commission shall provide to the appropriate committees of Congress a report containing a detailed justification for the use of proceeds retained by the Commission under [section 309(j)(8)(B) of this title](/usc/47/309.md?p=j-8-B) for the costs of developing and implementing the program required by [section 309(j) of this title](/usc/47/309.md?p=j).
- (c) **Definition—** For purposes of this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—
  - (1) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate;
  - (2) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
  - (3) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and
  - (4) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–141, div. P, title V, § 512, Mar. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 1097.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of section 512 of div. P of Pub. L. 115–141. Subsec. (a) of section 512 of div. P of Pub. L. 115–141 amended section 309 of this title.