I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 468 
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to impose penalties and provide 
for the recovery of removal costs and damages in connection with certain 
discharges of oil from foreign offshore units, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 12, 2017 
Mr. CURBELO of Florida (for himself, Mr. SOTO, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. NORTON, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. GAETZ, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. KATKO, Ms. ROS- 
LEHTINEN, Mr. BLUMENAUER, and Mr. DIAZ-BALART) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to impose penalties 
and provide for the recovery of removal costs and dam-
ages in connection with certain discharges of oil from 
foreign offshore units, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Spill Protec-
tion Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. LIABILITY OF OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF FOR-
EIGN FACILITIES. 
(a) OIL POLLUTION ACT OF 1990 AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS.—Section 1001 of the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in paragraph (26)(A)— 
(i) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘onshore 
or offshore facility, any person’’ and in-
serting ‘‘onshore facility, offshore facility, 
or foreign offshore unit or other facility lo-
cated seaward of the exclusive economic 
zone, including a facility located in, on, or 
under any land within a foreign country, 
any person’’; and 
(ii) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘off-
shore facility, the person who’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘offshore facility or foreign offshore 
unit or other facility located seaward of the 
exclusive economic zone, including a facil-
ity located in, on, or under any land within 
a foreign country, the person or entity 
that’’; 
(B) in paragraph (27), by inserting before 
the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, in-
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cluding any foreign individual and any foreign 
public or private entity’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (32)— 
(i) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(D) through (F) as subparagraphs (E) 
through (G), respectively; 
(ii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(C) the following: 
‘‘(D) FOREIGN FACILITIES.—In the case of 
a foreign offshore unit or other facility located 
seaward of the exclusive economic zone, includ-
ing a facility located in, on, or under any land 
within a foreign country, any person owning or 
operating the facility, and any leaseholder, per-
mit holder, assignee, or holder of a right of use 
and easement granted under applicable foreign 
law for the area in which the facility is lo-
cated.’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (G) (as so redes-
ignated), by striking ‘‘or offshore facility, 
the persons’’ and inserting ‘‘offshore facil-
ity, or foreign offshore unit or other facil-
ity located seaward of the exclusive eco-
nomic zone, including a facility located in, 
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on, or under any land within a foreign 
country, the persons or entities’’. 
(2) ACTIONS ON BEHALF OF FUND.—Section 
1015(c) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 
2715(c)) is amended, in the third sentence, by add-
ing before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, or 
any other facility located seaward of the exclusive 
economic zone, including a facility located in, on, or 
under any land within a foreign country’’. 
(b) FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT 
AMENDMENT.—Section 311(a)(6) of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1321(a)(6)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘(B)’’ and all that follows through ‘‘and (C)’’ 
and inserting the following ‘‘(B) in the case of a facility, 
any person owning or operating the facility, and (C)’’. 
Æ 
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