18354(d) ), the Administrator shall negotiate an agreement on the terms and rates of royalty payments with respect to an invention or class of inventions conceived or first reduced to practice by any person or class of persons in the performance of such designated activities. (b) Licensing and assignment of inventions Notwithstanding sections 3710a and 3710c of title 15 and any other provision of law, after payment in accordance with subsection (A)(i) of such section 3710c(a)(1)(A)(i) to the inventors who have directly assigned to the Federal Government their interests in an invention under a written contract with the Administration or the ISS management entity for the performance of a designated activity, the balance of any royalty or other payment received by the Administrator or the ISS management entity from licensing and assignment of such invention shall be paid by the Administrator or the ISS management entity, as applicable, to the Space Exploration Fund. (c) Space Exploration Fund (1) Establishment There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund, to be known as the Space Exploration Fund (referred to in this subsection as the Fund ), to be administered by the Administrator. (2) Use of Fund The Fund shall be available without fiscal year limitation and without further appropriation to carry out space exploration activities under section 20302. (3) Deposits There shall be deposited in the Fund— (A) amounts appropriated to the Fund