Minerals Management Service

Minerals Management Service leasing and royalty management For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and environmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other minerals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; and for matching grants or cooperative agreements; including the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; $178,525,000, of which not less than $56,060,000 shall be available for royalty management activities: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated under this Act shall be available for the payment of interest in accordance with 30 U.S.C. 1721 (b) and (d): Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine clean-up activities: Provided further, That of the above enacted amounts, up to $250,000 proposed for data gathering to help determine the boundary between State and Federal lands offshore of Alaska shall be available only if an equal amount is provided by the State of Alaska from State revenues to match the Federal support for this project: Provided further, That of the above enacted amounts, up to one-half of the increase over the fiscal year 1989 funding provided for mineral royalty audits may be used to compensate States and Indian tribes for audit activities under the provisions of sections 202 and 205 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982103 STAT. 711(30 U.S.C. 1732,1735): Provided further, That for fiscal year 1990 and each fiscal year thereafter, notwithstanding the provisions of section 201 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982, sections 202 through 206 of that Act shall apply to any lease or portion of a lease subject to section 8(g) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1337), which, for purposes of those provisions and for no other purposes, shall be regarded as within the coastal State or States entitled to receive revenues from it under section 8(g): Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, $64,000 under this head shall be available for refunds of overpayments made by Samedan Oil Corporation in connection with certain Indian leases in Oklahoma (Case No. MMS–85–0135–IND before the Director of the Minerals Management Service) and by Bow Valley Petroleum Corporation and Mapco in connection with certain Indian leases in Utah in which the Director concurred with the claimed refund due.