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S 1566 110th Congress Senate Environmental Protection Auditing Congress Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Environmental assessment Environmental research Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Government trust funds Law Liability for environmental damages Oil pollution Research and development Science, Technology, Communications

A bill to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to improve that Act, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 7, 2007 See on congress.gov
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Jun 27, 2008
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 858.
Jun 27, 2008
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-403.
May 21, 2008
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Jun 7, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jun 7, 2007
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to direct the President to provide to designated congressional committees an audit conducted by the Comptroller General that includes an accounting of funds from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund in excess of $100,000 that are: (1) disbursed by the National Pollution Funds Center; and (2) administered and managed by the receiving agencies.

Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and federal agencies that, during the preceding fiscal year, received funds from the Fund in excess of $100,000, to submit an annual accounting to the President and the public regarding their uses of the funds, including how those uses relate to: (1) oil pollution liability, compensation, prevention, preparedness, and removal; (2) natural resource damage assessment and restoration; (3) oil pollution research and development; and (4) other oil pollution-related activities.

What's happening now June 27, 2008

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 858.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1