§ 1261.307 Time limitations.

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Title 14 CFR: Aeronautics and Space › Chapter V: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION › Part 1261: PROCESSING OF MONETARY CLAIMS (GENERAL) › Subpart 1261.3: Subpart 1261.3—Claims Against NASA or Its Employees for Damage to or Loss of Property or Personal Injury or Death—Accruing On or After January 18, 1967 › § 1261.307: § 1261.307 Time limitations.

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(a) A claim may not be acted upon pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act unless it is presented to NASA within 2 years after it accrued.

(b) A claim may not be acted upon pursuant to 51 U.S.C. 20113(m)(1) or (2) unless it is presented to NASA within two years after the occurrence of the accident or incident out of which the claim arose.

(c) A claim shall be deemed to have been presented to NASA when NASA receives from a claimant or duly authorized agent or legal representative an executed Standard Form 95 or other written notification of an incident or accident, accompanied by a claim in a sum certain.

[45 FR 48104, July 18, 1980, as amended at 82 FR 29384, June 29, 2017]

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