AMENDMENT TO THE MINERAL LEASING ACT.

SEC. 10201. AMENDMENT TO THE MINERAL LEASING ACT. Section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191) is amended as follows: (1) Delete the last sentence and redesignate the remaining language as subsection (a). (2) Amend subsection (a) by inserting “and, subject to the provisions of subsection (b),” between the words “United States;” and “50 per centum”. (3) Add a new subsection (b) as follows: “(b) (1) In calculating the amount to be paid to States during any fiscal year under this section or under any other provision of law requiring payment to a State of any revenues derived from the leasing of any onshore lands or interest in land owned by the United States for the production of the same types of minerals leasable under this Act or of geothermal steam, 50 percent of the portion of the enacted appropriation of the Department of the Interior and any other agency during the preceding fiscal year allocable to the administration of all laws providing for the leasing of any onshore lands or interest in land owned by the United States for the production of the same types of minerals leasable under this Act or of geothermal steam, and to enforcement of such laws, shall be deducted from the receipts derived under those laws in approximately equal amounts each month (subject to paragraph (4)) prior to the division and distribution of such receipts between the States and the United States. “(2) The proportion of the deduction provided in paragraph (1) allocable to each State shall be determined by dividing the monies disbursed to the State during the preceding fiscal year derived from onshore mineral leasing referred to in paragraph (1) in that State by the total money disbursed to States during the preceding fiscal year from such onshore mineral leasing in all States. “(3) In the event the deduction apportioned to any State under this subsection exceeds 50 percent of the Secretary of the Interior’s estimate of the amounts attributable to onshore mineral leasing 107 STAT. 408referred to in paragraph (1) within that State during the preceding fiscal year, the deduction from receipts received from leases in that State shall be limited to such estimated amounts and the total amount to be deducted from such onshore mineral leasing receipts shall be reduced accordingly. “(4) If the amount otherwise deductible under this subsection in any month from the portion of receipts to be distributed to a State exceeds the amount payable to the State during that month, any amount exceeding the amount payable shall be carried forward and deducted from amounts payable to the State in subsequent months. If any amount remains to be carried forward at the end of the fiscal year, such amount shall not be deducted from any disbursements in any subsequent fiscal year. “(5) All deductions to be made pursuant to this subsection shall be made in full during the fiscal year in which such deductions were incurred.”.