Referral of small oil spills to coast guard under Oil Pollution Act before new enforcement MOU is in effect

Technical Report · Mon Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:6956663

The memorandum supplements earlier guidance concerning a case-by-case approach to the referral of post-Oil Pollution Act (OPA) oil spills to the Coast Guard. Congress has rewritten Section 311 to provide additional administrative and judicial oil spill enforcement remedies when it passed the OPA, and noted in the legislative history that this new authority is available to both the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Transportation.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Waste Programs Enforcement
• OSTI ID: 6956663
• Report Number(s): PB-94-963627/XAB; OSWER-9844.02
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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