---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 975"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "975"
heading: "Claims for losses"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/975"
units:
  - "Chapter 26A — Indemnity for Exhibitions of Arts and Artifacts"
---

# §975. Claims for losses

- (a) **Regulations for prompt adjustment—** The [Council](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=2) shall prescribe regulations providing for prompt adjustment of valid claims for losses which are covered by an agreement made pursuant to [section 974 of this title](/usc/20/974.md), including provision for arbitration of issues relating to the dollar value of damages involving less than total loss or destruction of such covered objects.
- (b) **Certification—** In the case of a claim of loss with respect to an item which is covered by an agreement made pursuant to [section 974 of this title](/usc/20/974.md), the [Council](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=2) shall certify the validity of the claim and the amount of the loss to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–158, § 6, Dec. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 845.)