CFR > Title 15 - Commerce and Foreign Trade > SUBTITLE B—Regulations Relating to Commerce and Foreign Trade > CHAPTER IX—NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (parts 902 to 996) > SUBCHAPTER E—OIL POLLUTION ACT REGULATIONS (parts 990 to 990) > PART 990—NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS > SUBPART A—Introduction (§990.10 to §990.15) > 990.13—Rebuttable presumption.

990.13—Rebuttable presumption.

Any determination or assessment of damages to natural resources made by a Federal, State, or Indian trustee in accordance with this part shall have the force and effect of a rebuttable presumption on behalf of the trustee in any administrative or judicial proceeding under OPA.