[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR256.1]

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                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
         CHAPTER II--FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 256--PAYMENTS UNDER JUDGMENTS AND PRIVATE RELIEF ACTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 256.1  Judgments against the United States.

    (a) Persons securing money judgments against the United States, in 
excess of $100,000 in any one case, in the Court of Claims are required, 
in order to secure payment, to file original transcripts of such 
judgments with the Secretary of the Treasury for certification to the 
Congress for appropriation. Following receipt of an application on the 
part of the claimant for payment of the amount appropriated by the 
Congress, the General Accounting Office transmits a certificate of 
settlement to the Treasury Department. Payment is then made to the 
claimant by check drawn in the Treasury Department by the Field 
Operations Group, Financial Management Service. A similar procedure 
applies with respect to such judgments obtained in the Federal district 
courts, except that papers pertaining to such judgments are filed with 
the Secretary of the Treasury by the Department of Justice instead of by 
the claimant.
    (b) A procedure similar to that outlined in paragraph (a) of this 
section is followed with respect to judgments not in excess of $100,000 
in any one case except that the necessary documents are filed with the 
General Accounting Office and no action is taken by the Treasury 
Department prior to the receipt of a certificate of settlement from the 
General Accounting Office. After receipt of a certificate of settlement 
a check payable from a permanent appropriation established for the 
payment of such judgments is drawn in the Treasury Department by the 
Field Operations Group, Financial Management Service and mailed to the 
claimant in accordance with the terms of the certificate of settlement.

[23 FR 10184, Dec. 24, 1958. Redesignated at 32 FR 9562, July 1, 1967, 
as amended at 49 FR 47002, Nov. 30, 1984]