[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3472 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3472

To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil polluters to pay 
          the full cost of oil spills, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 9, 2010

 Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. 
     Schumer, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mrs. 
  Gillibrand, Mr. Kaufman, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. 
Feingold, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Casey, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Mikulski, 
Mr. Franken, Mr. Harkin, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Shaheen, and Ms. Stabenow) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil polluters to pay 
          the full cost of oil spills, 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 ``Big Oil Bailout Prevention Unlimited 
Liability Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF LIMITS ON LIABILITY FOR OFFSHORE FACILITIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1004(a)(3) of the Oil Pollution Act of 
1990 (33 U.S.C. 2704(a)(3)) is amended by striking ``plus $75,000,000'' 
and inserting ``and the liability of the responsible party under 
section 1002''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section takes 
effect on April 15, 2010.
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