HR 3081
101th Congress
House
Environmental Protection
Continental shelf
Fines (Penalties)
Indexing (Economic policy)
Petroleum in submerged lands
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permit the assesment of civil penalties for certain violations without the requirement of a period for corrective action, and for other purposes.
Introduced: August 2, 1989
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Everywhere this bill has been
7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 18, 1990
See H.R.1465.
Sep 25, 1989
Referred to the Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer Continental Shelf.
Sep 25, 1989
Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Sep 8, 1989
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Offshore Energy Resources.
Aug 2, 1989
Referred to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Aug 2, 1989
Referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Aug 2, 1989
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to increase the amount of civil penalties that may be prescribed for violations of such Act.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to adjust such penalties triennially to reflect increases in the Consumer Price Index.
Authorizes penalties to be assessed without regard to a required period for corrective action if a violation constitutes a threat of serious, irreparable, or immediate harm to life, property, mineral deposits, or the environment.
What's happening now
See H.R.1465.
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