A bill to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to improve that Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1566
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Auditing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental assessment
Environmental research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Oil pollution
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to direct the President to provide to designated congressional committees an audit conducted by the Comptroller General that includes an accounting of funds from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund in excess of $100,000 that are: (1) disbursed by the National Pollution Funds Center; and (2) administered and managed by the receiving agencies.

Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and federal agencies that, during the preceding fiscal year, received funds from the Fund in excess of $100,000, to submit an annual accounting to the President and the public regarding their uses of the funds, including how those uses relate to: (1) oil pollution liability, compensation, prevention, preparedness, and removal; (2) natural resource damage assessment and restoration; (3) oil pollution research and development; and (4) other oil pollution-related activities.

action_date: 2008-06-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to direct the President to provide to designated congressional committees an audit conducted by the Comptroller General that includes an accounting of funds from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund in excess of $100,000 that are: (1) disbursed by the National Pollution Funds Center; and (2) administered and managed by the receiving agencies.

Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and federal agencies that, during the preceding fiscal year, received funds from the Fund in excess of $100,000, to submit an annual accounting to the President and the public regarding their uses of the funds, including how those uses relate to: (1) oil pollution liability, compensation, prevention, preparedness, and removal; (2) natural resource damage assessment and restoration; (3) oil pollution research and development; and (4) other oil pollution-related activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 858.
action_date: 2008-06-27
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-403.
action_date: 2008-06-27
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-403.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate