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Title 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS > CHAPTER 17—NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION > SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS

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The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine all claims for damages, where the amount of the claim does not exceed $2,500, occasioned, subsequent to June 5, 1920 , by acts for which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is responsible.

( June 5, 1920, ch. 256 , 41 Stat. 1054 ; Pub. L. 93–608, § 1(4) , Jan. 2, 1975 , 88 Stat. 1967 ; Pub. L. 98–176 , Nov. 29, 1983 , 97 Stat. 1124 .)

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