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necessary shall be available for reimbursement to the Gen-
eral Services Administration for security guard services; 
contracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and 
for the making of geophysical or other specialized surveys 
when it is administratively determined that such proce-
dures are in the public interest; construction and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities; 
acquisition of lands for gauging stations and observation 
wells; expenses of the United States National Committee 
on Geology; and payment of compensation and expenses 
of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly appointed to 
represent the United States in the negotiation and admin-
istration of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities 
funded by appropriations herein made may be accom-
plished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-
tive agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Pro-
vided further, That the United States Geological Survey 
may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements di-
rectly with individuals or indirectly with institutions or 
nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, 
for the temporary or intermittent services of students or 
recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for 
the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States 
Code, relating to compensation for travel and work inju-
ries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, re-
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lating to tort claims, but shall not be considered to be Fed-
eral employees for any other purposes. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and 
collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing 
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; for 
energy-related or other authorized marine-related pur-
poses on the Outer Continental Shelf; and for matching 
grants or cooperative agreements, $157,373,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2010, of which 
$86,684,000 shall be available for royalty management ac-
tivities; and an amount not to exceed $146,730,000, to 
be credited to this appropriation and to remain available 
until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from 
increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and from 
cost recovery fees: Provided, That in fiscal year 2009 and 
each fiscal year thereafter, fees and charges authorized by 
31 U.S.C. 9701 may be collected only to the extent pro-
vided in advance in appropriations Acts: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, in fiscal year 2009, 
such amounts as are assessed under 31 U.S.C. 9701 shall 
be collected and credited to this account and shall be avail-
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able until expended for necessary expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That to the extent $146,730,000 in addition to re-
ceipts are not realized from the sources of receipts stated 
above, the amount needed to reach $146,730,000 shall be 
credited to this appropriation from receipts resulting from 
rental rates for Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect 
before August 5, 1993: Provided further, That the term 
‘‘qualified Outer Continental Shelf revenues’’, as defined 
in section 102(9)(A) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Secu-
rity Act, division C of Public Law 109–432, shall include 
only the portion of rental revenues that would have been 
collected at the rental rates in effect before August 5, 
1993: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall 
be available for reasonable expenses related to promoting 
volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds 
of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases 
in which the Director of MMS concurred with the claimed 
refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or 
tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous pay-
ments. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title 
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
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