[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5355 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5355

  To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to repeal the limitation of 
liability of a responsible party for a discharge or substantial threat 
          of a discharge of oil from an offshore oil facility.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2010

 Mr. Grijalva introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to repeal the limitation of 
liability of a responsible party for a discharge or substantial threat 
          of a discharge of oil from an offshore oil facility.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPEAL OF LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF RESPONSIBLE PARTY FOR 
              DISCHARGE OF OIL FROM AN OFFSHORE FACILITY.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 1004(a) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 
U.S.C. 2704(a)) is amended by--
            (1) inserting ``and'' after the semicolon at the end of 
        paragraph (2);
            (2) striking paragraph (3); and
            (3) redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) take 
effect on April 15, 2010.
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