Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12B — Bonneville Project
§ 832k. Authority of Administrator
Statutory text
Settlement, compromise, and payment of claims; limitations; conclusiveness of settlements; restoration of damage
The Administrator is authorized to determine, settle, compromise, and pay claims and demands against the United States which are not in excess of $1,000 and are presented to the Administrator in writing within one year from the date of accrual thereof, for any losses, injuries, or damages to persons or property, or for the death of persons, resulting from acts or omissions of employees acting within the scope of their employment pursuant to this chapter. The Administrator is also authorized to determine, compromise, and settle any claims and demands of the United States for any losses, injuries, or damages to property under the Administrator’s control, against other persons or public or private corporations. The Administrator’s determination, compromise, settlement, or payment of any of the claims referred to in this subsection shall be final and conclusive upon all officers of the Government, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act to the contrary. When claims presented to the Administrator under this subsection arise, in whole or in part, out of any damage done to private property, the Administrator may repair all or any part of such damage in lieu of making such payments.
Authorization to bring legal proceedings; representation; supervision by Attorney General
The Administrator may, in the name of the United States, under the supervision of the Attorney General, bring such suits at law or in equity as in his judgment may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter; and he shall be represented in the prosecution and defense of all litigation, affecting the status or operation of Bonneville project by the United States attorneys for the districts, respectively, in which such litigation may arise, or by such attorney or attorneys as the Attorney General may designate as authorized by law, in conjunction with the regularly employed attorneys of the Administrator.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 75–720 § 12 · 50 Stat. 731
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 832k
Aug. 20, 1937, ch. 720, § 12, 50 Stat. 736
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 20, 1937, ch. 720, § 12, 50 Stat. 736Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 12. The administrator may, in the name of the United States, under the supervision of the Attorney General, bring such suits at law or in equity as in his judgment may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act; and he shall be represented in the prosecution and defense of all litigation affecting the status or operation of Bonneville project by the United States Attorneys for the districts, respectively, in which such litigation may arise, or by such attorney or attorneys as the Attorney General may designate as authorized by law, in conjunction with the regularly employed attorneys of the administrator.Public Law not identified
Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 832k(b)
Subsec. (b). Act July 26, 1946, took from the Administrator the authority to make settlement of suits
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (b). Act July 26, 1946, took from the Administrator the authority to make settlement of suits.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Amendments1945–1946 · 2 rounds
1946
Subsec. (b). Act , took from the Administrator the authority to make settlement of suits.
1945
Act , added subsec. (a), designated existing provisions as subsec. (b), and amended such provisions generally.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Secretary of the Interior with respect to Bonneville Power Administration transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(a)(1)(D), (2) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, with Bonneville Power Administration to be preserved as a distinct organizational entity within Department of Energy and headed by an Administrator.
Credits
1937–1946 · 3 acts
- 1937Aug. 20, 1937, ch. 720, § 12, 50 Stat. 736
- 1945Oct. 23, 1945, ch. 433, § 6, 59 Stat. 547
- 1946July 26, 1946, ch. 673, 60 Stat. 701.
Show as published
(Aug. 20, 1937, ch. 720, § 12, 50 Stat. 736; Oct. 23, 1945, ch. 433, § 6, 59 Stat. 547; July 26, 1946, ch. 673, 60 Stat. 701.)