retary of the Treasury shall, out of the sums covered 
into the Claims Fund, make payments on account of 
such awards as follows, and in the following order 
of priority: 
‘‘(A) Payment in the amount of $5,000 or 
the principal amount of the award (excluding 
any calculations made under any mathematical 
basis certified under section 807(a)(1)(B)), 
whichever is less. 
‘‘(B) Thereafter, payments from time to 
time, in ratable proportions, on account of the 
unpaid balance of the principal amounts of all 
awards (including any calculations made under 
any mathematical basis certified under section 
807(a)(1)(B)) according to the proportions 
which the unpaid balance of such awards bear 
to the total amount in the Claims Fund avail-
able for distribution at the time such payments 
are made. 
‘‘(2) SUBSEQUENT PAYMENTS.—After payment 
has been made in full of the principal amounts of all 
awards pursuant to paragraph (1), pro rata pay-
ments may be made on account of any interest that 
may be allowed on such awards.
‘‘(c) REGULATIONS.—Payments or applications for 
payments under subsection (b) shall be made in accord-
ance with such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas-
ury may prescribe. 
‘‘SEC. 811. SETTLEMENT PERIOD. 
‘‘The Commission shall complete its affairs in connec-
tion with the settlement of claims under this title not later 
than 3 years after the final date for the filing of claims 
as provided in section 804. 
‘‘SEC. 812. TRANSFER OF RECORDS. 
‘‘The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, and the Secretary of Defense shall transfer or other-
wise make available to the Commission such records and 
documents relating to claims authorized by this title as 
may be required by the Commission in carrying out its 
functions under this title. 
‘‘SEC. 813. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated for any fis-
cal year beginning on or after October 1, 2004, such sums 
as may be necessary to enable the Commission and the 
Department of the Treasury to pay their respective admin-
istrative expenses incurred in carrying out their functions 
under this title. Amounts appropriated under this section 
may remain available until expended.
‘‘SEC. 814. FEES FOR SERVICES. 
‘‘(a) LIMITATION ON FEES.—
‘‘(1) LIMITATION.—No remuneration on ac-
count of services rendered on behalf of any claimant, 
in connection with any claim filed with the Commis-
sion under this title, may exceed 10 percent of the 
total amount paid pursuant to any award certified 
under the provisions of this title on account of such 
claim. 
‘‘(2) NOTIFICATION
OF
AGREEMENTS.—Any 
agreement contrary to the limitation set forth in 
paragraph (1) shall be unlawful and void. 
‘‘(b) PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.—Whoever, in the 
United States or elsewhere, demands or receives, on ac-
count of services rendered to which paragraph (1) applies, 
any remuneration in excess of the maximum permitted by 
subsection (a), shall be fined not more than $5,000, or 
imprisoned not more than 12 months, or both. 
‘‘SEC. 815. APPLICATION OF OTHER PROVISIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—To the extent they are not incon-
sistent with the provisions of this title, the following provi-
sions of title I of this Act shall apply to this title: sub-
sections (b), (c), (d), (e), and (h) of section 4 and sub-
sections (c), (d), (e), and (f) of section 7. Any reference 
in such provisions to ‘this title’ shall be deemed to be a 
reference to those provisions and to this title.
‘‘(b) APPLICABILITY
OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCE-
DURE.—Except as otherwise provided in this title and in 
those provisions of title I referred to in subsection (a), the 
Commission shall comply with the provisions of subchapter 
II of chapter 5, and the provisions of chapter 7, of title 
5, United States Code. 
‘‘SEC. 816. SEPARABILITY. 
‘‘If any provision of this title or the application there-
of to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the re-
mainder of this title or the application of such provision 
to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.’’. 
SEC. 3. JURISDICTION OF U.S. DISTRICT COURTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 85 of title 28, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘§ 1370. Civil actions against private persons by na-
tionals of the United States who own real 
property in Cyprus 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The district courts shall have 
original jurisdiction of any civil action brought by a na-
tional of the United States—
‘‘(1) who holds title to any property under the 
laws of Cyprus that is located in that portion of the 
territory of Cyprus that is occupied by Turkey as
the result of the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey on 
July 20, 1974, and 
‘‘(2) who has been excluded from the property 
by reason of such occupation, 
against any private person who for any purpose and in 
any way uses, occupies, or benefits from that property at 
any time during the period of such exclusion, for the fair 
rental value of the property during the period of such use, 
occupation, or benefit. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section—
‘‘(1) the term ‘Cyprus’ means the Republic of 
Cyprus; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘national of the United States’ 
means—
‘‘(A) a natural person who is a citizen of 
the United States; and 
‘‘(B) a corporation or other legal entity 
which is organized under the laws of the United 
States or of any State, the District of Colum-
bia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, if 
natural persons who are citizens of the United 
States own, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or 
more of the outstanding capital stock or other 
beneficial interest of such corporation or entity;