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

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6/10/2010--Introduced.Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to exempt advances to the Coast Guard in connection with the explosion on, and sinking of, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon from the requirement that amounts in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund shall be availab
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6/10/2010--Introduced.Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to exempt advances to the Coast Guard in connection with the explosion on, and sinking of, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon from the requirement that amounts in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund shall be available only as provided in annual appropriations. Limits such advances to a maximum of $100 million each, with the total amount for all advances not to exceed $1 billion for any single incident and $500 million for natural resource damage assessments and claims for any single incident, provided that, except in the case of payments of removal costs, an advance may be made only if the amount in the Fund after such advance will not be less than $30 million. Requires the Coast Guard to notify Congress of the amount advanced and the facts and circumstances necessitating the advance within seven days of the advance. Requires the budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, to be determined by reference to the latest statement titled "Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation" for this Act submitted 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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09/12/10
AELLA's statement to American citizens

HR 5499: To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Introduced. Jun 10, 2010. S. 3472: Big Oil Bailout Prevention Unlimited Liability Act of 2010 ...

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06/27/10
Update no.445

I learned after the fact that Congress and the President took a mere six (6) days from introduction to signing into law the amendment of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 [PL 111-191; S.3473; HR5499; House: 410-0-1-20(4); Senate: unanimous ...

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06/21/10
Oil Spill Legislation Pt. 2 « The Political Climate

Now that I have devoted two recent posts to what Congress isn't doing, it's time once again to look at what little they actually are working on. There are a couple of interesting pieces of oil spill legislation that have been introduced ...

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