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Under the Oil Pollution Act, federal, tribal, state, and any other person can recover removal costs from a responsible party so long as such entity has incurred costs from carrying out oil removal activities in accordance with the Clean Water Act National Contingency Plan. Reimbursement claims must first be made to the responsible party.
Oil Pollution Act of 1961; Long title: An Act to implement the provisions of the International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954. Nicknames: Oil Pollution Act, 1961: Enacted by: the 87th United States Congress: Effective: August 30, 1961: Citations; Public law: 87-167: Statutes at Large: 75 Stat. 402 ...
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969, renewed in 1992 and often referred to as the CLC Convention, is an international maritime treaty admistered by the International Maritime Organization that was adopted to ensure that adequate compensation would be available where oil pollution damage was caused by maritime casualties involving oil tankers (i.e ...
However, the EPA report identified regulatory gaps for oil and gas wastes, for which it recommended additional rules under existing EPA regulatory authority, under RCRA Subtitle D, the Clean Water Act, and the Safe Water Drinking Act. [37] Federal regulation of the storage of petroleum was established by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. [38]
The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources.
The complaint sought damages under the Oil Pollution Act to compensate for injury to and destruction of natural resources including birds, sea turtles, marine life, the water and marsh and beach ...
The Oil Conservation Division was given the power to regulate fossil fuel waste in 2019, but hasn't issued a single penalty despite operators causing thousands of liquid waste spills since then ...
Section 311 of the Clean Water Act, as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, [18] applies to ships and prohibits discharge of oil or hazardous substances in harmful quantities into or upon U.S. navigable waters, or into or upon the waters of the contiguous zone, or which may affect natural resources in the U.S. EEZ (extending 200 miles (320 ...