[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3165 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3165

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

                             July 12, 2016

   Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Reed, Mr. Durbin, Ms. 
  Mikulski, Mr. Franken, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Nelson, Mr. 
 Peters, and Mr. Booker) 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 2016''.

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

    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''.
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