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 appropriate Secretary acquired and that is located in territory outside the continental United States. The Secretary of Commerce may do the same for meteorological facilities that the appropriate Secretary acquired and that are located there. To carry out this section, the appropriate Secretary may (1) adapt the property or facility to the needs of civil aeronautics; (2) lease the property or facility for no more than 20 years; (3) make a 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 the direct sale or charge for facilities and services sold or provided under subsection (a)(3) and (4), in an amount the Secretary of Transportation or Commerce, as appropriate, decides is equivalent to their cost, must be credited to the appropriation from which that cost was paid. Any remaining balance must be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. (c) Using other Government facilities and services. To carry out this chapter and use United States Government personnel and facilities as advantageously as possible without unnecessary duplication, the Secretary of Transportation or Commerce, as appropriate, must request, when practicable, to use a facility or service of an appropriate Government department, agency, or instrumentality on a reimbursable basis. A department, agency, or instrumentality that receives a request under this section may provide the facility or service. (d) Advertising not required. Section 6101(b) through (d) of title 41 does not apply to a lease or contract that the Secretary of Transportation or Commerce makes under this chapter.