[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5499 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5499

 To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from Oil 
    Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 10, 2010

 Mr. Mica (for himself, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. Petri, Mr. Coble, Mr. 
   Duncan, Mr. Ehlers, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Westmoreland, Mrs. Miller of 
    Michigan, Mr. Cao, Mr. Putnam, Mr. Graves, Mr. Shuster, and Mr. 
   Fleming) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from Oil 
    Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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

SECTION 1. ADVANCES FROM OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND FOR ``DEEPWATER 
              HORIZON'' OIL SPILL.

    Section 6002(b) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2752) 
is amended in the second sentence--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``Coast Guard''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``and (2) in the case of the discharge of oil that 
        began in 2010 in connection with the explosion on, and sinking 
        of, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, may, 
        without further appropriation, obtain 1 or more advances from 
        the Fund as needed, up to a maximum of $100,000,000 for each 
        advance, with the total amount of all advances not to exceed 
        the amounts available under section 9509(c)(2) of the Internal 
        Revenue Code of 1986, and within 7 days of each advance, shall 
        notify Congress of the amount advanced and the facts and 
        circumstances necessitating the advance''.

SEC. 2. BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that 
such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.
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