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PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 111 STAT. 2059 (c) RESPONSIBILITY FOR COSTS. —The return of platinum under subsection (a) by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be made without the expenditure of any funds available to the Department of Defense. The Secretary of the Treasury shall be responsible for all costs incurred in connection with the return, such as transportation, storage, testing, refining, or casting costs. TITLE XXXIV—NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES Sec. 3401. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 3402. Price requirement on sale of certain petroleum during fiscal year 1998. Sec. 3403. Repeal of requirement to assign Navy officers to Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves. Sec. 3404. Transfer of jurisdiction, Naval Oil Shale Reserves Numbered 1 and 3. SEC. 3401. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy $117,000,000 for fiscal year 1998 for the purpose of carrying out activities under chapter 641 of title 10, United States Code, relating to the naval petroleum reserves (as defined in section 7420(2) of such title). Funds appropriated pursuant to such authorization shall remain available until expended. SEC. 3402. PRICE REQUIREMENT ON SALE OF CERTAIN PETROLEUM 10 USC 7430 DURING FISCAL YEAR 1998. note. Notwithstanding section 7430(b)(2) of title 10, United States Code, during fiscal year 1998, any sale of any part of the United States share of petroleum produced from Naval Petroleum Reserves Numbered 1, 2, and 3 shall be made at a price not less than 90 percent of the current sales price, as estimated by the Secretary of Energy, of comparable petroleum in the same area. SEC. 3403. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT TO ASSIGN NAVY OFFICERS TO OFFICE OF NAVAL PETROLEUM AND OIL SHALE RESERVES. Section 2 of Public Law 96-137 (42 U.S.C. 7156a) is repealed. SEC. 3404. TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION, NAVAL OIL SHALE RESERVES NUMBERED 1 AND 3. (a) TRANSFER REQUIRED. —Chapter 641 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: "§ 7439. Certain oil shale reserves: transfer of jurisdiction and petroleum exploration, development, and production "(a) TRANSFER REQUIRED.— (1) Upon the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Energy shall transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over all public domain lands included within Oil Shale Reserve Numbered 1 and those public domain lands included within the undeveloped tracts of Oil Shale Reserve Numbered 3. "(2) Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Energy shall transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over those public domain lands included within the developed tract of Oil Shale Reserve Numbered 3, which consists of approximately 6,000 acres