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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-212—JUNE 30, 1982 "(i) Any claimant or other person who suffers a legal wrong or who is adversely affected or aggrieved by a final determination of the Secretary under subsection (d), may, no later than 30 days after such determination is made, seek judicial review of the determination in the United States district court for such United States judicial district as may be mutually agreeable to the parties concerned or, if no agreement can be reached, in the United States district court for the United States judicial district in which is located the home port of the claimant.".

96 STAT. 147 Judicial review.

SEC. 6. SURVEY OF OBSTRUCTIONS.

(a) Section 407 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 1847) is repealed. (b) The table of contents of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 is amended by striking:

Repeal.

"1847. Survey of obstructions on the Outer Continental Shelf.". SEC. 7. REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THIS ACT.

Section 403(a)(1) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 1843(a)(1)) is amended by striking out "claims; and" and inserting in lieu thereof "claims (except that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, final regulations implementing the 1981 amendments to this title shall be published in the Federal Register within 120 days after the date of the enactment of such amendments); and".

Publication in Federal Register.

SEC. 8. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.

Section 401(3)(B) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 1841(3)(B)) is amended by striking out "at sea". SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE.

(a) Except as provided for in subsection (b), the amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to claims for damages that are filed, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, with the Secretary of Commerce under section 405(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978. (b)(1) Any commercial fisherman who filed a claim with the Secretary of Commerce for compensation under title IV of such amendments of 1978 before the date of the enactment of this Act may, if no decision on such claim was rendered under section 405(d) of such title IV before such date of enactment, refile such claim with the Secretary if the claimant notifies the Secretary in writing within thirty days after notification under paragraph (2) of his eligibility to refile the claim that he intends to so refile. If timely notification of intent to refile is made under the preceding sentence, any action pending with respect to the original claim shall be suspended pending the refiling of the claim under paragraph (2) and, if such refiling is timely made, such action shall be vacated. (2) The Secretary shall notify each claimant eligible to refile a claim under paragraph (1) of such eligibility within 10 days after the date of enactment of this Act. (3) A claim for which notification on intent to refile was timely made under paragraph (1) must be refiled with the Secretary within the thirty-day period after the date on which the regulations promulgated to implement the amendments made by this Act become

43 USC 1841 note.

43 USC 1845. 43 USC 1841. Ante, p. 145.