5 U.S.C. § 8137: Compensation for noncitizens and nonresidents

the adoption or adaption of the substantive features, by a schedule or otherwise, of local workmen’s compensation provisions or other local statute, regulation, or custom applicable in cases of personal injury or death; or establishing special schedules of compensation for injury, death, and loss of use of members and functions of the body for specific classes of employees, areas, and places. modify or limit the maximum monthly and total aggregate payments for injury, death, and medical or other benefits; modify or limit the percentages of the wage of the employee payable as compensation for the injury or death; and modify, limit, or redesignate the class or classes of beneficiaries entitled to death benefits, including the designation of persons, representatives, or groups entitled to payment under local statute or custom whether or not included in the classes of beneficiaries otherwise specified by this subchapter. make a lump-sum award in the manner prescribed by section 8135 of this title when he or his designee considers it to be for the best interest of the United States; and compromise and pay a claim for benefits, including a claim in which there is a dispute as to jurisdiction or other fact or a question of law. The Secretary may delegate to an employee or agency of the United States, with such limitations and right of review as he considers advisable, authority to process, adjudicate, commute by lump-sum award, compromise, and pay a claim or class of claims for compensation, and to provide other benefits, locally, under this section, in accordance with such regulations and instructions as the Secretary considers necessary. For this purpose, the Secretary may provide or transfer funds, including reimbursement of amounts paid under this subchapter. conditions prevent the establishment of facilities for processing and adjudicating claims under this section; or claimants under this section are alien enemies. The Secretary may apply this section retrospectively with adjustment of compensation and benefits as he considers necessary and proper.