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104 STAT. 1926 PUBLIC LAW 101-512—NOV. 5, 1990 reasonable expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities.- Provided further. That notwithstanding 5 U.S.C. 5901(a), as amended, hereafter the uniform allowance for each uniformed employee of the Minerals Management Service shall not exceed $400 annually: Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, $8,000 under this head shall be available for refunds of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases in which the Director of the Minerals Management Service concurred with the claimed refund due: Provided further, 43 USC 1338a. That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, any moneys hereafter received as a result of the forfeiture of a bond or other security or pa3anent of civil penalty by an Outer Continental Shelf permittee, lessee, or right-of-way holder which does not fulfill the requirements of its permit, lease, or right-of-way or does not comply with the regulations of the Secretary shall be credited to this account to cover the cost to the United States of any improvement, protection, or rehabilitation work rendered necessary by the action or inaction that led to the forfeiture or imposition of the civil penalty, to remain available until expended: Provided further. That any portion of the moneys so credited shall be returned to the permittee, lessee, or right-of-way holder to the extent that the money is in excess of the amount expended in performing the work necessitated by the action or inaction which led to their receipt or, if the bond or security was forfeited for failure to pay the civil penalty, in excess of the civil penalty imposed: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, $68,200,000 shall be deducted from Federal onshore mineral leasing receipts prior to the division and distribution of such receipts between the States and the Treasury and shall be credited to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. BUREAU OF MINES MINES AND MINERALS (INCLUDING TRANSFER) For expenses necessary for conducting inquiries, technological investigations, and research concerning the extraction, processing, use, and disposal of mineral substances without objectionable social and environmental costs; to foster and encourage private enterprise in the development of minersQ resources and the prevention of waste in the mining, minerals, metal, and mineral reclamation industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting those industries; to promote health and safety in mines and the mineral industry through research; and for other related purposes as authorized by law, $182,182,000, of which $102,182,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided, That none of the funds in this or any other Act may be used for the closure or consolidation of any research centers or the sale of any of the helium facilities currently in operation. Funds in the amount of $6,000,000 appropriated pursuant to 102 Stat. 2270-12, Public Law 100-463, and transferred from the Department of Defense to the Bureau of Mines pursuant to 103 Stat. 1124, Public Law 101-165, are to be transferred to the Secretary of Defense to carry out the Soledad Canyon Demonstration Project in Los Angeles County, California. These funds shall remain available until September 30, 1993.