Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement offshore safety and environmental enforcement For expenses necessary for the regulation of operations related to leases, easements, rights-of-way and agreements for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and implementing laws and regulations as authorized by law and to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants or cooperative agreements, $61,473,000, to remain available until September 30, 2013; and an amount not to exceed $59,081,000 to be credited to this appropriation and to remain available until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, that are collected and disbursed by the Secretary, from cost recovery fees from activities conducted by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and miscellaneous administrative activities: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, in fiscal year 2012, such amounts as are assessed under 31 U.S.C. 9701 shall be collected and credited to this account and shall be available until expended for necessary expenses: Provided further, That to the extent $59,081,000 in addition to receipts are not realized from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount needed to reach $59,081,000 shall be credited to this appropriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 1993: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter, the term “qualified Outer Continental Shelf revenues”, as defined in section 102(9)(A) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, division C of Public Law 109–432, shall include only the portion of rental revenues that would have been collected by the Secretary at the rental rates in effect before August 5, 1993. For an additional amount, $62,000,000, to remain available until expended, which shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees collected in fiscal year 2012, as provided in this Act: Provided, That to the extent that such amounts are not realized from such fees, the amount needed to reach $62,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 1993: Provided further, That to the extent that amounts realized from such fees exceed $62,000,000, the amounts realized in excess of $62,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation and remain available until expended: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2012, not less than 50 percent of the inspection fees collected by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund personnel and mission-related costs to expand capacity and expedite the orderly development, subject to environmental safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), including the review of applications for permits to drill. oil spill research For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $14,923,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.