Sec. 213. Coast Guard response plan requirements
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The Secretary shall require that a response plan that is approved by the Coast Guard be updated at least once every 5 years. Each update under paragraph
(1)shall incorporate the best commercially available technology and methods to contain and remove, to the maximum extent practicable, a worst case discharge, including a discharge resulting from fire or explosion, and to mitigate or prevent a substantial threat of such a discharge. The Secretary may establish requirements and guidance for utilizing the best commercially available technology and methods. The technology and methods shall be based on measurable standards and capabilities, and planning criteria, whenever practicable. The Secretary shall require that each vessel response plan prepared for a mobile offshore drilling unit include information from the facility response plan prepared for the mobile offshore drilling unit regarding the planned response to a worst case discharge, and to a threat of such a discharge. In this section: The term mobile offshore drilling unit has the meaning given the term in section 1001(18) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701(18)). The term response plan means a response plan prepared under section 311(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1321(j)). The term worst case discharge has the meaning given the term under section 311(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1321(a)).
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