PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Starting in fiscal year 2006 and after, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) may use part of the money from selling oil or gas it takes as royalty-in-kind, or from moving oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, to pay certain program costs. Those costs include moving the oil or gas to wholesale market centers or upstream pooling points, processing or otherwise disposing of the oil or gas taken in kind, and reimbursing MMS for transportation, salaries, and other administrative costs directly tied to the royalty-in-kind program. The funds can be used without being limited by fiscal-year spending rules.

Title 30, §1758

Mineral Lands and Mining, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

That in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter, the MMS may under the royalty-in-kind program, or under its authority to transfer oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, use a portion of the revenues from royalty-in-kind sales, without regard to fiscal year limitation, to pay for transportation to wholesale market centers or upstream pooling points, to process or otherwise dispose of royalty production taken in kind, and to recover MMS transportation costs, salaries, and other administrative costs directly related to the royalty-in-kind program.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

MMS, referred to in text, means the Minerals Management Service. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, and not as part of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Similar ProvisionsSimilar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: Pub. L. 108–447, div. E, title I, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3053. Pub. L. 108–108, title I, Nov. 10, 2003, 117 Stat. 1255. Pub. L. 108–7, div. F, title I, Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 229. Pub. L. 107–63, title I, Nov. 5, 2001, 115 Stat. 428. Pub. L. 106–291, title I, Oct. 11, 2000, 114 Stat. 932.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

The Minerals Management Service was abolished and functions divided among the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental

Enforcement

. See Secretary of the Interior Orders No. 3299 of

May 19, 2010, and No. 3302 of

June 18, 2010, and chapters II, V, and XII of title 30, Code of Federal

Regulations

, as revised by final rules of the Department of the Interior at 75 F.R. 61051 and 76 F.R. 64432.

§1758 Use of Royalty-in-kind Revenue by Minerals Management Service