Oil Spill Financial Responsibility for Offshore Facilities Including State Submerged Lands and Pipelines

摘要

This notice announces a public meeting that the Minerals Management Service will conduct to acquire information and data pertinent to the development of regulations implementing financial responsibility requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). An advance notice of proposed rulemaking on this matter was published in the Federal Register on August 25, 1993. It describes issues relating to the development of regulations to ensure that parties responsible for offshore facilities have sufficient financial resources to pay for oil-spill cleanup costs and associated damages.