[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5727 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5727

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the 
  establishment of a process for quickly and effectively soliciting, 
 assessing, and deploying offshore oil and hazardous substance cleanup 
                 technologies, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2010

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the 
  establishment of a process for quickly and effectively soliciting, 
 assessing, and deploying offshore oil and hazardous substance cleanup 
                 technologies, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Oil Spill Cleanup Technologies Act 
of 2010''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the response to the discharge of oil in the Gulf of 
        Mexico resulting from the explosion on, and sinking of, the 
        mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon has shown the 
        Federal Government to be lacking in significant technologies to 
        clean up offshore oil spills;
            (2) following the discharge, the Federal Government was not 
        prepared to accept potentially valuable cleanup ideas and 
        valuable time may have been lost in finding cleanup solutions 
        due to the lack of an established process; and
            (3) establishing a process for soliciting, assessing, and 
        deploying offshore oil and hazardous substance cleanup 
        technologies is necessary to ensure that the Federal Government 
        is better prepared to handle incoming technologies in the event 
        of a future offshore discharge.

SEC. 3. OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE CLEANUP TECHNOLOGIES.

    Section 311(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1321(j)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) Oil and hazardous substance cleanup technologies.--
        The President, acting through the Secretary of the department 
        in which the Coast Guard is operating and in coordination with 
        the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall--
                    ``(A) establish a process for--
                            ``(i) quickly and effectively soliciting, 
                        assessing, and deploying offshore oil and 
                        hazardous substance cleanup technologies in the 
                        event of a discharge or substantial threat of a 
                        discharge of oil or a hazardous substance in 
                        United States waters; and
                            ``(ii) effectively coordinating with other 
                        appropriate agencies, industry, academia, small 
                        businesses, and others to ensure the best 
                        technology available is implemented in the 
                        event of such a discharge or threat; and
                    ``(B) maintain a database on best available oil and 
                hazardous substance cleanup technologies in the event 
                of a discharge or substantial threat of a discharge of 
                oil or a hazardous substance in United States 
                waters.''.
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