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[CITE: 33USC874]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 874. Transportation of deceased officers' effects; 
        reimbursement for supplies furnished distressed and shipwrecked 
        persons
        
    The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to provide, from 
appropriations now or hereafter made available to the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration, for--
    (a) Transportation (including packing, unpacking, crating, and 
uncrating) of personal and household effects of commissioned officers 
who die on active duty to the official residence of record for such 
officers, or, upon application by their dependents, to such other 
locations as may be determined by the Secretary of Commerce or by such 
person as he may designate.
    (b) Reimbursement, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, of 
commissioned officers for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies 
furnished by them for the temporary relief of distressed persons in 
remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by 
them.

(July 22, 1947, ch. 286, Sec. 1, 61 Stat. 400; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, 
eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, 
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Office of Director of Coast and Geodetic Survey abolished, and Coast 
and Geodetic Survey consolidated with Weather Bureau to form a new 
agency in Department of Commerce to be known as Environmental Science 
Services Administration, by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 13, 
1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out as a note under section 851 
of this title. The Reorg. Plan also transferred to Secretary of Commerce 
all functions of Coast and Geodetic Survey and Director. Subsequently, 
Environmental Science Services Administration abolished and National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established by Reorg. Plan No. 4 
of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the 
Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. By 
Department Organization Order 25-5A, Secretary delegated to NOAA his 
functions under this chapter of the Code. For further details, see note 
set out under section 851 of this title.
