[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR11.11]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 11--CLAIMS--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart B--Administrative Claims Under Federal Tort Claims Act
 
Sec. 11.11  Administrative claim; when presented; appropriate FEMA office.

    (a) For the purpose of this part, and the provisions of the Federal 
Tort Claims Act a claim is deemed to have been presented when FEMA 
receives, at a place designated in paragraph (b) or (c) of this section, 
an executed ``Claim for Damage or Injury,'' Standard Form 95, or other 
written notification of an incident, accompanied by a claim for money 
damages in a sum certain for injury to or loss of property, for personal 
injury, or for death alleged to have occurred by reason of the incident. 
A claim which should have been presented to FEMA, but which was 
mistakenly addressed to or filed with another Federal agency, is deemed 
to be presented to FEMA as of the date that the claim is received by 
FEMA. If a claim is mistakenly addressed to or filed with FEMA, the 
claim shall forthwith be transferred to the appropriate Federal Agency, 
if ascertainable, or returned to the claimant.
    (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, a claimant 
shall mail or deliver his or her claim to the Office of General Counsel, 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC, 20472.
    (c) When a claim is for $200 or less, does not involve a personal 
injury, and involves a FEMA regional employee, the claimant shall mail 
or deliver the claim to the Director of the FEMA Regional Office in 
which is employed the FEMA employee whose negligence or wrongful act or 
omission is alleged to have caused the loss or injury complained of. The 
addresses of the Regional Offices of FEMA are set out in part 2 of this 
chapter.
    (d) A claim presented in compliance with paragraph (a) of this 
section may be amended by the claimant at any time prior to final FEMA 
action or prior to the exercise of the claimant's option under 28 U.S.C. 
2675(a). Amendments shall be submitted in writing and signed by the 
claimant or his or her duly authorized agent or legal representative. 
Upon the timely filing of an amendment to a pending claim, FEMA shall 
have six months in which to make a final disposition of the claim as 
amended and the claimant's option under 28 U.S.C. 2675(a) shall not 
accrue until six months after the filing of an amendment.

[45 FR 15930, Mar. 12, 1980, as amended at 48 FR 6711, Feb. 15, 1983; 49 
FR 33879, Aug. 27, 1984]