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Notice of Planned Methodology for 

Estimating Lump Sum Catch-Up 

Payments to Eligible 1983 Beirut 

Barracks Bombing Victims and 1996 

Khobar Towers Bombing Victims; 

Request for Comment 

AGENCY: Government Accountability 

Office (GAO). 

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for estimating lump sum catch-up 

payments; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: GAO is now accepting 

comments on our notice of planned 

methodology for estimating potential 

lump sum catch-up payments to certain 

1983 Beirut Barracks bombing victims 

and certain 1996 Khobar Towers 

bombing victims who have submitted 

eligible claims for payment to the 

United States Victims of State 

Sponsored Terrorism Fund. We invite 

comments on all aspects of the planned 

methodologies proposed in this notice. 

GAO is publishing this notice pursuant 

to of the requirements of the Fairness 

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Comments should be sent to the email 

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1Public Law 117–328, div. MM, 136 Stat. 4459, 

6106–6111 (classified as amended at 34 U.S.C. 

20144(d)(4)(D)). Other 1983 Beirut Barracks 

bombing victims and 1996 Khobar Towers bombing 

victims have applied to and been determined 

eligible for payment from the Fund in prior rounds. 

Section 101 directs us to estimate catch-up 

payments for those who submitted eligible claims 

to the Fund between the date of enactment 

(December 29, 2022), and June 27, 2023, which is 

the date the application period closed for catch-up 

payments. In general, the deadline for submitting a 

claim to the Fund is not later than 90 days after 

obtaining a final judgment. However, the Fairness 

Act reopened the application period for 1983 Beirut 

Barracks bombing victims and 1996 Khobar Towers 

bombing victims awarded final judgments before 

December 29, 2022, providing that these victims 

had 180 days from the date of enactment of the 

Fairness Act (June 27, 2023) to submit an 

application for payment to the Fund. 34 U.S.C. 

20144(c)(3)(A)(ii). 

2 34 U.S.C. 20144(c)(2). 

3 34 U.S.C. 20144(c)(2). 

4 34 U.S.C. 20144(c)(1). 

5See 34 U.S.C. 20144(b)(3). Although not subject 

to administrative or judicial review, a claimant 

whose claim is denied in whole or in part by the 

Special Master may request a hearing before the 

Special Master not later than 30 days after receipt 

of a written decision. Id. 20144(b)(4). Not later than 

90 days after any such hearing, the Special Master 

must issue a final written decision affirming or 

amending the original decision, and that written 

decision is final and nonreviewable. Id. 

6Public Law 114–113, div. O, tit. IV, sec. 404, 129 

Stat. 2242, 3007–3017 (classified as amended at 34 

U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(C)). 

7 In Re 650 Fifth Avenue and Related Properties, 

No. 08 Civ. 10934 (S.D.N.Y. filed Dec. 17, 2008) and 

Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran, No. 10 Civ. 

4518 (S.D.N.Y.). 

8Public Law 114–113, 129 Stat. at 3013. 

9Public Law 114–113, 129 Stat. at 3013–14. 

10 Id. at 3014. In the event of an adverse final 

judgment in Peterson or In Re 650 Fifth Avenue and 

Related Properties, the Special Master was to 

release a portion of an eligible claimant’s 

conditional payment to such eligible claimant if the 

Special Master anticipates that such claimant will 

receive less than the amount of the conditional 

payment from any proceeds from the final judgment 

that is entered in favor of the plaintiffs. Id. Such 

portion shall not exceed the difference between the 

amount of the conditional payment and the amount 

the Special Master anticipates such claimant will 

receive from the proceeds. Id. 

11See Bank Markazi aka Central Bank of Iran v. 

Peterson, 578 U.S. 212 (2016); U.S. Victims of State 

Sponsored Terrorism Fund, ‘‘Supplemental Report 

from the Special Master,’’ at 6 (August 2017). 

12U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism 

Fund, ‘‘Supplemental Report from the Special 

Master,’’ at 6 (August 2017). 

13 Id. There were 78 conditional claimants who 

were Peterson judgment creditors who fell into this 

category. Id. 

14Claimants are required to provide the Special 

Master with information regarding compensation 

from any source other than this Fund that the 

claimant (or, in the case of a personal 

representative, the victim’s beneficiaries) has 

received or is entitled or scheduled to receive as a 

result of the act of international terrorism that gave 

rise to a claimant’s final judgment, including 

information identifying the amount, nature, and 

source of such compensation. 34 U.S.C. 

20144(b)(2)(B). 

15 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(3)(B)(i). 

16 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(3)(B)(iii). 

17 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(3)(B)(iii). 

18 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(D)(i). As discussed in 

footnote 1, section 101 directs us to estimate catchup payments for those who submitted eligible 

claims to the Fund between the date of enactment 

(December 29, 2022), and June 27, 2023, which is 

the date the application period closed for catch-up 

payments. See 34 U.S.C. 20144(c)(3)(A)(ii). 

sum catch-up payments to certain 1983 

Beirut Barracks bombing victims and 

certain 1996 Khobar Towers bombing 

victims who have submitted eligible 

claims to the United States Victims of 

State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (Fund), 

on or after December 29, 2022, and by 

June 27, 2023.1

For purposes of the Fund, the term 

‘‘claim’’ generally refers to a claim based 

on compensatory damages awarded to a 

United States person in a final 

judgment.2 These judgments are issued 

by a United States district court under 

state or federal law against a foreign 

state that has been designated a state 

sponsor of terrorism and arising from 

acts of international terrorism.3 In 

general, a claim is determined eligible 

for payment from the Fund if the 

Special Master determines that the 

judgment holder (referred to as a 

‘‘claimant’’) is a United States person, 

that the claim at issue meets the 

definition of claim above, and that the 

claim was submitted timely.4 All 

decisions made by the Special Master 

with regard to compensation from the 

Fund are final and not subject to 

administrative or judicial review.5 As of 

January 2023, the Fund has allocated to 

all eligible claimants approximately 

$3.4 billion in four payment rounds, 

which were authorized in 2017, 2019, 

2020, and 2023. The Fund was 

established in 2015 by the Justice for 

United States Victims of State 

Sponsored Terrorism Act (Victims 

Act).6 At the time of enactment, the 

Victims Act allowed plaintiffs in two 

identified lawsuits, In Re 650 Fifth 

Avenue and Related Properties and 

Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran 

(Peterson) 7 to elect to participate in the 

Fund and assign any and all rights, title, 

and interest in the actions for the 

purposes of participating in the Fund.8

Plaintiffs in these actions who did not 

elect to participate in the Fund were 

also permitted to submit an application 

for conditional payment from the Fund 

in which initial payment amounts 

would be determined and set aside, 

pending a final determination in these 

actions.9 In the event that a final 

judgment was entered in favor of the 

plaintiffs in the actions and funds were 

distributed, the payments allocated to 

claimants who applied for a conditional 

payment were to be considered void, 

and any funds previously allocated to 

such conditional payments be made 

available and distributed to all other 

eligible claimants.10 A final judgment in 

favor of plaintiffs in Peterson was 

entered, appealed to the United States 

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 

and ultimately affirmed by the United 

States Supreme Court on April 20, 

2016.11 Distributions to the judgment 

creditor plaintiffs in Peterson 

commenced on October 19, 2016.12

Accordingly, conditional claimants who 

were judgment creditors in Peterson did 

not receive award payments, and the 

Fund did not include them in award 

calculations in 2017 for the first round 

of payments or subsequent payment 

rounds.13 These conditional claimants 

include 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing 

victims and 1996 Khobar Towers 

bombing victims. 

The Victims Act outlines minimum 

payment requirements in which any 

applicant with an eligible claim who 

has received, or is entitled or scheduled 

to receive, any payment that is equal to, 

or in excess of, 30 percent of the total 

compensatory damages owed on the 

applicant’s claim from any source other 

than the Fund 14 shall not receive any 

payment from the Fund until all other 

eligible applicants have received from 

the Fund an amount equal to 30 percent 

of the compensatory damages awarded 

to those applicants pursuant to their 

final judgments.15 The Fairness Act 

amended the Victims Act to provide 

that the minimum payment 

requirements include the total amount 

received by applicants who are 1983 

Beirut Barracks bombing victims or 

1996 Khobar Towers bombing victims as 

a result of or in connection with 

Peterson or In Re 650 Fifth Avenue and 

Related Properties.16 It further provides 

that any such applicant who has 

received or is entitled or scheduled to 

receive 30 percent or more of such 

applicant’s compensatory damages 

judgment as a result of or in connection 

with such proceedings shall not receive 

any payment from the Fund, except as 

consistent with minimum payment 

requirements or as part of a lump sum 

catch-up payment under section 101 of 

the Fairness Act.17

Section 101 of the Fairness Act 

contains a provision for GAO to conduct 

an audit and publish a notice estimating 

potential lump sum catch-up payments 

for 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing 

victims and 1996 Khobar Towers 

bombing victims who submitted eligible 

applications to the Fund on or after 

December 29, 2022, and by June 27, 

2023.18 This section also established a 

lump sum catch-up payment reserve 

fund within the Fund and appropriated 


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19 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(D)(iv). The Fairness Act 

directed the Special Master to authorize lump sum 

catch-up payments to 9/11 victims, spouses and 

dependents in amounts equal to those previously 

estimated by GAO. GAO, U.S. Victims of State 

Sponsored Terrorism Fund: Estimated Lump Sum 

Catch-Up Payments, GAO–21–105306 (Aug. 11, 

2021). Additionally, not earlier than 90 days and 

not later than 1 year after submission of the report 

that is to follow this notice the Special Master is 

to authorize lump sum catch-up payments from the 

reserve fund in amounts equal to those estimated 

by GAO. 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(D)(iv)(II). 

20 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(4)(D)(i). Further, section 

101 provides for GAO to conduct this audit in 

accordance with 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(3)(A), which 

generally requires that distributions be made on a 

pro rata basis and also places limits on the amount 

of eligible claims (referred to as ‘‘statutory caps’’). 

For example, for individuals, the cap is $20,000,000 

and for claims of non-9/11 family members when 

aggregated, the cap is $35,000,000. As such, we 

plan to use data from the Fund, to the extent 

available, on the claim amounts after the 

application of statutory caps. 

21 34 U.S.C. 20144(j)(15). 

22 34 U.S.C. 20144(j)(16). 

23As discussed in footnote 1, this includes some 

1983 Beirut Barracks bombing victims and 1996 

Khobar Towers bombing victims who applied to 

and received payment from the Fund in prior 

rounds. If claimants applied to the Fund more than 

once, they only appear in the data we received the 

first time they applied and were determined 

eligible. For example, the data we received show 12 

claimants of the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing or 

1996 Khobar Towers bombing attacks who received 

a payment in round 1, 141 in round 2, 423 in round 

3, and 708 in round 4. 

24For the purposes of our analysis, ‘‘net eligible 

claims’’ refers to the monetary amount of all eligible 

claims after the application of statutory caps by the 

Fund, if applicable. 34 U.S.C. 20144(d)(3)(A). In 

accordance with GAO standards, we will assess the 

reliability and completeness of the data from the 

Fund to ensure that it is appropriate for these 

purposes. 

25As of December 2023, data from the Fund on 

the claim amounts after the application of statutory 

caps (‘‘net eligible claims’’) for 1983 Beirut Barracks 

bombing victims and 1996 Khobar Towers bombing 

victims who are potentially eligible for lump sum 

catch-up payments was not available. This is 

because these claimants have not yet been included 

in a payment distribution that would require the 

application of statutory caps by the Fund. While we 

have data from the Fund on compensatory damages 

awards, we do not yet have the data with claim 

amounts after the application of statutory caps. We 

plan to work with the Fund to generate these data 

and to incorporate these updated claim amounts 

into our analysis when available. 

26We received data from the Fund as of December 

2023 for 1,362 claimants for the 1983 Beirut 

barracks bombing and 159 claimants for the 1996 

Khobar Towers bombing who were deemed eligible 

by the Fund and applied between December 29, 

2022, and June 27, 2023. We also received data on 

60 victims of these attacks whose eligibility for the 

Fund is still being determined as of November 

2023. These applications are pending because the 

Fund is awaiting additional documentation from 

these individuals that is needed to determine their 

claims’ eligibility. Some of these 1,581 claimants 

may be judgment creditors in Peterson. We also 

received data from the Fund on the 78 conditional 

claimants who are Peterson judgment creditors 

discussed in footnote 13. Because eligibility for 

some of these victims is still being determined, we 

refer to the group as a whole as ‘‘potentially 

eligible’’ for catch-up payments. 

27Claimants are required to provide the Special 

Master with information regarding compensation 

from any source other than this Fund that the 

claimant (or, in the case of a personal 

representative, the victim’s beneficiaries) has 

received or is entitled or scheduled to receive as a 

result of the act of international terrorism that gave 

rise to a claimant’s final judgment, including 

information identifying the amount, nature, and 

source of such compensation. 34 U.S.C. 

20144(b)(2)(B). We received data from the Fund on 

compensation from other sources for claimants who 

are potentially eligible for catch-up payments. 

28 In our prior work, we did not offset eligible 9/ 

11 victims, spouses and dependents’ net eligible 

claims with compensation from other sources 

because this population did not have qualifying 

compensation from other sources. Although some 

9/11 claimants may have received awards from the 

9/11 Victims Compensation Fund (VCF), money 

received from the VCF is not considered an offset 

for the Fund’s award calculations. See U.S. Victims 

of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, Frequently 

Asked Questions, http://www.usvsst.com/faq.php 

(last accessed Dec. 4, 2023) (see 4.8 *Updated* 

What is a source of compensation other than the 

USVSST Fund?). 

29According to Fund data, compensation from 

other sources received by potentially eligible 1983 

Beirut Barracks bombing victims and 1996 Khobar 

Towers bombing victims range from $0 to 

approximately $5 million. 

$3 billion to this reserve fund.19

Specifically, we are publishing for 

comment our methodology for 

estimating lump sum catch-up 

payments for eligible 1983 Beirut 

Barracks bombing victims and 1996 

Khobar Towers bombing victims in 

‘‘amounts that, after receiving the lump 

sum catch-up payments, would result in 

the percentage of the claims of such 

victims received from the Fund being 

equal to the percentage of the claims of 

non-9/11 victims of state sponsored 

terrorism received from the Fund, as of 

the date of enactment.’’ 20 For the 

purposes of this analysis and consistent 

with the Fairness Act, ‘‘1983 Beirut 

Barracks bombing victim’’ means ‘‘a 

plaintiff, or estate or successor in 

interest thereof, who has an eligible 

claim to the Fund that arises out of the 

October 23, 1983, bombing of the United 

States Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut, 

Lebanon, and includes a plaintiff, estate, 

or successor in interest who is a 

judgment creditor in Peterson v. Islamic 

Republic of Iran or a settling judgment 

creditor as identified in the order dated 

May 27, 2014, in In Re 650 Fifth Avenue 

& Related Properties.’’ 21 The term 

‘‘1996 Khobar Towers bombing victim’’ 

means ‘‘a plaintiff, or estate or successor 

in interest thereof, who has an eligible 

claim to the Fund that arises out of the 

June 25, 1996 bombing of the Khobar 

Tower housing complex in Saudi 

Arabia, and includes a plaintiff, estate, 

or successor in interest who is a 

judgment creditor in Peterson v. Islamic 

Republic of Iran or a settling judgment 

creditor as identified in the order dated 

May 27, 2014, in In Re 650 Fifth Avenue 

& Related Properties.’’ 22

Methodology To Produce Estimates for 

Lump Sum Catch-Up Payments 

To estimate the amount(s) called for 

in section 101, GAO will utilize data 

from the Fund on the following 

amounts: (1) payments from the Fund 

received by non-9/11 claimants in the 

first through fourth payment rounds; 23

(2) net eligible claims 24 of these non-9/ 

11 claimants in the first through fourth 

payment rounds; (3) net eligible 

claims 25 of the 1983 Beirut Barracks 

bombing victims and 1996 Khobar 

Towers bombing victims who were 

deemed eligible by the Fund and 

applied between December 29, 2022, 

and June 27, 2023; 26 and (4) 

compensation from other sources 27

received by the 1983 Beirut Barracks 

bombing victims and 1996 Khobar 

Towers bombing victims who were 

deemed eligible by the Fund and 

applied between December 29, 2022, 

and June 27, 2023. 

Using these data, we estimated that 

the amount of payments that non-9/11 

claimants received, as a percentage of 

their net eligible claims in the first four 

rounds of Fund distributions, was 

4.6122 percent (referred to as ‘‘GAO 

percentage calculation’’). To estimate 

GAO’s payment percentage, we 

determined the payment amounts 

received by non-9/11 claimants from the 

Fund in the first through fourth 

payment rounds. Next, we determined 

the net eligible claims of these non-9/11 

claimants in each round. We divided 

the amount of payments by the net 

eligible claims to determine GAO’s 

percentage calculation. 

Using the GAO percentage 

calculation, we plan to estimate two 

amounts for purposes of the second 

notice: (1) the total amount needed to 

provide lump sum catch-up payments to 

potentially eligible 1983 Beirut Barracks 

bombing victims and 1996 Khobar 

Towers bombing victims based on these 

victims’ net eligible claims; and (2) the 

total amount needed to provide lump 

sum catch-up payments to potentially 

eligible 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing 

victims and 1996 Khobar Towers 

bombing victims based on these victims’ 

net eligible claims offset by 

compensation from other sources.28 In 

the data provided, 1,417 of the 

potentially eligible 1983 Beirut Barracks 

bombing victims and 1996 Khobar 

Towers bombing victims have reported 

compensation from other sources, such 

as court-awarded compensation.29

After consideration of the comments 

from this notice, we will issue a second 


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Federal Register notice, utilizing data 

from the Fund to report estimated lump 

sum catch-up payments based on these 

methodologies with any changes we 

determine appropriate. We invite 

comments on all aspects of the planned 

methodologies proposed in this notice. 

After consideration of the comments 

from this notice, we will again seek 

public comment on the second Federal 

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The meeting is closed to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aisha L. Wilkes, M.P.H., Scientific 

Review Officer, National Center for 

Injury Prevention and Control, Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention, 

4770 Buford Highway NE, Mailstop 

S106–9, Atlanta, Georgia 30341. 

Telephone: (404) 639–6473; Email: 

AWilkes@cdc.gov. 

The Director, Office of Strategic 

Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief 

Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention, has been 

delegated the authority to sign Federal 

Register notices pertaining to 

announcements of meetings and other 

committee management activities, for 

both the Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Kalwant Smagh, 

Director, Office of Strategic Business 

Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating 

Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28614 Filed 12–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Disease, Disability, and Injury 

Prevention and Control Special 

Emphasis Panel (SEP)—CE22–003, 

Rigorously Evaluating Programs and 

Policies To Prevent Child Sexual 

Abuse (CSA); Amended Notice of 

Closed Meeting 

Notice is hereby given of a change in 

the meeting of the Disease, Disability, 

and Injury Prevention and Control 

Special Emphasis Panel (SEP)—CE22– 

003, Rigorously Evaluating Programs 

and Policies to Prevent Child Sexual 

Abuse (CSA); April 11, 2024, 8:30 a.m.– 

5 p.m., EDT, videoconference, in the 

original Federal Register notice. The 

meeting notice was published in the 

Federal Register on November 2, 2023, 

Volume 88, Number 211, page 75287. 

The notice is being amended to 

change the start time to 10:30 a.m. The 

notice should read as follows: 

Name of Committee: Disease, 

Disability, and Injury Prevention and 

Control Special Emphasis Panel (SEP)— 

CE22–003, Rigorously Evaluating 

Programs and Policies to Prevent Child 

Sexual Abuse (CSA). 

Date: April 11, 2024. 

Time: 10:30 a.m.–5 p.m., EDT. 

The meeting is closed to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aisha L. Wilkes, M.P.H., Scientific 

Review Officer, National Center for 

Injury Prevention and Control, Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention, 

4770 Buford Highway NE, Mailstop 

S106–9, Atlanta, Georgia 30341. 


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