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 101 STAT. 1329-225

PUBLIC LAW 100-202—DEC. 22, 1987 MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE LEASING AND ROYALTY MANAGEMENT

Contracts.

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; $168,717,000, of which not less than $50,179,000 shall be available for royalty management activities including general administration: 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 of the above enacted amounts, $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 none of the funds in this Act may be used to implement a rule which modifies NTL-5 until such time as H.R. 3479, or similar legislation, is enacted into law: Provided further. That audits may proceed but the Minerals Management Service shall take no action to collect unpaid or underpaid royalties on natural gas production from Federal onshore or Indian leases between January 1, 1982, and July 31, 1986, plus applicable interest, based on a value of production in excess of the lessee's gross proceeds (or minimum value required by the applicable lease terms and regulations in titles 25 and 30 of the CFR) until such time as legislation affecting NTL-5 for that period is enacted. Subsection (g)(5)(A) of section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)(5)(A)) is amended— (1) by striking out "such account" in the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "an escrow account established pursuant to an agreement under section 7"; (2) by designating the indented clause as clause (ii); (3) in the first sentence of the clause (ii) by striking "any" and inserting in lieu thereof "a", by striking out "all" and by inserting in lieu thereof "any additional", and by inserting "or credited to" before "the escrow account"; and (4) by inserting before clause (ii) the following new clause: "(i) Twenty-seven percent of all bonuses, rents, and royalties, and other revenues (derived from any bidding system authorized under subsection (a)(1)), excluding Federal income and windfall profits taxes, and derived from any lease issued after September 18, 1978, of any tract which lies wholly within three nautical miles of the seaward boundary asserted by the Federal Government in the boundary dispute, together with all accrued interest thereon, shall be paid to the State either— "(I) within thirty days of December 1, 1987, or "(II) by the last business day of the month following the month in which those revenues are deposited in the Treasury, whichever date is later.".

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