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10 U.S.C. § 2636b — Responsibilities for oversight of personal property transportation
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**(a) Responsibilities.—** Subject to subsection (b), not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Defense shall assign to a single office or other organizational element within the Department of Defense the following responsibilities:
(1) Overseeing the activities and personnel of, and any other matter relating to, the following:
(A) Any office or other organizational element of a military department responsible for shipping baggage or household effects, scheduling or processing orders for such shipments, providing storage services for such baggage or household effects, or providing privately owned vehicle transportation services in connection with a permanent change of station, on behalf of members of the armed forces, including any personal property shipping office, joint or consolidated personal property shipping office, or personal property processing office of such military department.
(B) The Defense Personal Property Management Office, or any such successor office.
(2) Overseeing the adjudication of any claim filed with respect to the defense personal property program (including the adjudication of such claims under [section 2636(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2636/a&num=0&edition=prelim) or [section 3721 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section3721&num=0&edition=prelim)) and any other matter relating to such program.
**(b) Exclusion.—** The responsibilities under subsection (a) may not be assigned to any combatant command or component thereof.
**(c) Defense Personal Property Program Defined.—** In this section, the term “defense personal property program” means the program of the Department of Def
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**(a) Responsibilities.—** Subject to subsection (b), not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Defense shall assign to a single office or other organizational element within the Department of Defense the following responsibilities:
(1) Overseeing the activities and personnel of, and any other matter relating to, the following:
(A) Any office or other organizational element of a military department responsible for shipping baggage or household effects, scheduling or processing orders for such shipments, providing storage services for such baggage or household effects, or providing privately owned vehicle transportation services in connection with a permanent change of station, on behalf of members of the armed forces, including any personal property shipping office, joint or consolidated personal property shipping office, or personal property processing office of such military department.
(B) The Defense Personal Property Management Office, or any such successor office.
(2) Overseeing the adjudication of any claim filed with respect to the defense personal property program (including the adjudication of such claims under [section 2636(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2636/a&num=0&edition=prelim) or [section 3721 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section3721&num=0&edition=prelim)) and any other matter relating to such program.
**(b) Exclusion.—** The responsibilities under subsection (a) may not be assigned to any combatant command or component thereof.
**(c) Defense Personal Property Program Defined.—** In this section, the term “defense personal property program” means the program of the Department of Defense for managing the shipment of the baggage and household effects for members of the armed forces or civilian employees of the Department, or any such successor program.
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**(a)** In this section—
(1) “agency” does not include a nonappropriated fund activity or a contractor with the United States Government.
(2) “head of an agency” means—
(A) for a military department, the Secretary of the military department;
(B) for the Department of Defense (except the military departments), the Secretary of Defense; and
(C) for another agency, the head of the agency.
(3) “settle” means consider, determine, adjust, and dispose of a claim by disallowance or by complete or partial allowance.
**(b)**
(1) The head of an agency may settle and pay not more than $40,000 for a claim against the Government made by a member of the uniformed services under the jurisdiction of the agency or by an officer or employee of the agency for damage to, or loss of, personal property incident to service. If, however, the claim arose from an emergency evacuation or from extraordinary circumstances, the amount settled and paid under the authority of the preceding sentence may exceed $40,000, but may not exceed $100,000. A claim allowed under this subsection may be paid in money or the personal property replaced in kind.
(2) The Secretary of State may waive the settlement and payment limitation referred to in paragraph (1) for claims for damage or loss by United States Government personnel under the jurisdiction of a chief of mission in a foreign country if such claims arise in circumstances where there is in effect a departure from the country authorized or ordered under circumstances described in [section 5522(a) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5522/a&num=0&edition=prelim), if the Secretary determines that there exists exceptional circumstances that warrant such a waiver.
**(c)** On paying a claim under t
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