Oil Spill Prevention and Response Improvement Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session on S. 1730, a Bill to Amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to Make the Act More Effective in Preventing Oil Pollution in the Nation's Waters Through Enhanced Prevention Of, and Improved Response to Oil Spills, and to Ensure that Citizens and Communities Injured by Oil Spills are Promptly and Fully Compensated, and for Other Purposes, February 14, 1996--Narragansett, RI; March 27 and June 4, 1996--Washington, DC. |
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Page 408 - containment and removal of oil or a hazardous substance from water and shorelines or the taking of other actions as may be necessary to minimize or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare, including, but not limited to, fish, shellfish, wildlife, and public and private property, shorelines and beaches.
Page 192 - Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the Department of Commerce. I want to begin by thanking you for the opportunity to be
Page 223 - benefits: Congress itself defined the basic relationship between costs and benefits, by placing the 'benefit' of worker health above all other considerations save those making attainment of this "benefit' unachievable. . . . Thus, cost-benefit analysis by
Page 426 - actions as may be necessary to minimize or mitigate damage to the public health or welfare, including but not limited to, fish, shellfish, wildlife....
Page 254 - of the marine insurance done in the United States. The American Marine Insurance Industry has insured Federal statutory pollution liabilities for vessels for nearly one-quarter of a century. I appear here today on behalf of AIMU and the Water Quality Insurance Syndicate
Page 252 - and is in no way to be construed as an admission of liability on the part of any party. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this
Page 136 - I want to thank you again for this opportunity to appear before you, and I would be glad to answer
Page 119 - To rule as the District Court has done is to allow Federal admiralty jurisdiction to swallow most of the police power of the States over oil spillage—an insidious form of pollution of vast concern to every coastal city or port and to all the estuaries on which the life of the ocean and the lives of the coastal people are greatly dependent.
Page 208 - take any precaution which may be required by the "ordinary practice of seamen,
Page 263 - and is in no way to be construed as an admission of liability on the part of any party. The