49 U.S.C. § 47305 — Administrative

(a) General Authority. The Secretary of Transportation must consolidate, operate, protect, maintain, and improve airport property and airway property (except meteorological facilities) that the Secretary has acquired outside the continental United States; the Secretary of Commerce may do the same for meteorological facilities. In doing this, the appropriate Secretary may (1) adapt the property or facility to civil aeronautics needs; (2) lease it for up to 20 years; (3) contract for facilities and services, or provide them directly; (4) make reasonable charges for aeronautical services; and (5) acquire an interest in property. (b) Crediting Appropriations. Money received from a direct sale, or from a charge the Secretary decides equals the cost of facilities or services sold or provided under (a)(3) and (4), is credited to the appropriation that paid for it. Any balance is deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. (c) Using Other Government Facilities and Services. To carry out this chapter and to use government personnel and facilities most effectively, without unnecessary duplication, the Secretary of Transportation or Commerce must, when practical, ask to use a facility or service of another appropriate federal department, agency, or instrumentality on a reimbursable basis. That other agency may provide it. (d) Advertising Not Required. The usual advertising requirement in section 6101(b) through (d) of title 41 does not apply to a lease or contract made by the Secretary of Transportation or Commerce under this chapter.