§ 853.
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].)