94-1972. Oil Spill Financial Responsibility for Offshore Facilities Including State Submerged Lands and Pipelines

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

30 CFR Part 253

 

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

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: 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.

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for February 16, 1994, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 5 p.m., in Anchorage, Alaska. This meeting will last until all 
speakers have been heard but not later than 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The Loussac Library, 3600 Denali Street, Anchorage, Alaska 
99503. Telephone contact in Anchorage: Ms. Robin Cacy on (907) 271-
6070.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:Jeff Zippin, Chief, Inspection, 
Compliance and Training Division; Minerals Management Service; Mail 
Stop 4800; 381 Elden Street; Herndon, Virginia 22070-4817, telephone 
[phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested persons are invited to 
participate in public meetings to address the following issues:
     Types and locations of ``offshore facilities'' subject to 
OPA financial responsibility requirements;
     Methods available to evidence OPA financial 
responsibility;
     Interaction of States/Territories and Federal Government 
to enforce OPA financial responsibility;
     Protection for the responsible parties, the guarantors, 
and other financial participants, and
     Effects on the local and national economic conditions of 
OPA financial responsibility requirements.
    Presentations: Presentations by interested parties should focus on 
the following:
     Proposals and suggestions for addressing the financial 
responsibility requirement.
     Economic impacts on affected parties of the financial 
responsibility requirements.
    Registration: There will be no registration fee for the meeting. 
Participants need not register prior to arrival at the meeting. 
However, prior notification to Richard Giangerelli; Minerals Management 
Service; Mail Stop 4800; 381 Elden Street; Herndon, Virginia 22070-
4817, or telephone [phone], FAX [phone], is requested in 
order to assess the probable number of participants. Seating is limited 
and will be on a first-come-first-seated basis.

    Dated: January 24, 1994.
Thomas Gernhofer,
Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 94-1972 Filed 1-28-94; 8:45 am]
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