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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Oil Pollution Act of 1990 · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS

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## SEC. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS The contents of this Act are as follows: TITLE I—OIL POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION Sec. 1001. Definitions. Sec. 1002. Elements of liability. Sec. 1003. Defenses to liability. Sec. 1004. Limits on liability. Sec. 1005. Interest. Sec. 1006. Natural resources. Sec. 1007. Recovery by foreign claimants. Sec. 1008. Recovery by responsible party. Sec. 1009. Contribution. Sec. 1010. Indemnification agreements. Sec. 1011. Consultation on removal actions.
Sec. 1012. Uses of the Fund. Sec. 1013. Claims procedure. Sec. 1014. Designation of source and advertisement. Sec. 1015. Subrogation. Sec. 1016. Financial responsibility. Sec. 1017. Litigation, jurisdiction, and venue. Sec. 1018. Relationship to other law. Sec. 1019. State financial responsibility. Sec. 1020. Application. TITLE II—CONFORMING AMENDMENTS Sec. 2001. Intervention on the High Seas Act. Sec. 2002. Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Sec. 2003. Deepwater Port Act. Sec. 2004.
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978. TITLE III—INTERNATIONAL OIL POLLUTION PREVENTION AND REMOVAL Sec. 3001. Sense of Congress regarding participation in international regime. Sec. 3002. United States-Canada Great Lakes oil spill cooperation. Sec. 3003. United States-Canada Lake Champlain oil spill cooperation. Sec. 3004. International inventory of removal equipment and personnel. Sec. 3005. Negotiations with Canada concerning tug escorts in Puget Sound. TITLE IV—PREVENTION AND REMOVAL Subtitle A—Prevention Sec. 4101.
Review of alcohol and drug abuse and other matters in issuing licenses, certificates of registry, and merchant mariners' documents. Sec. 4102. Term of licenses, certificates of registry, and merchant mariners' documents; criminal record reviews in renewals. Sec. 4103. Suspension and revocation of licenses, certificates of registry, and merchant mariners' documents for alcohol and drug abuse. Sec. 4104. Removal of master or individual in charge. Sec. 4105. Access to National Driver Register.
Sec. 4106. Manning standards for foreign tank vessels. Sec. 4107. Vessel traffic service systems. Sec. 4108. Great Lakes pilotage. Sec. 4109. Periodic gauging of plating thickness of commercial vessels. Sec. 4110. Overfill and tank level or pressure monitoring devices. Sec. 4111. Study on tanker navigation safety standards. Sec. 4112. Dredge modification study. Sec. 4113. Use of liners. Sec. 4114. Tank vessel manning. Sec. 4115. Establishment of double hull requirement for tank vessels.
Sec. 4116. Pilotage. Sec. 4117. Maritime pollution prevention training program study. Sec. 4118. Vessel communication equipment regulations. Subtitle B—Removal Sec. 4201. Federal removal authority. Sec. 4202. National planning and response system. Sec. 4203. Coast Guard vessel design. Sec. 4204. Determination of harmful quantities of oil and hazardous substances. Sec. 4205. Coastwise oil spill response endorsements. Subtitle C—Penalties and Miscellaneous Sec. 4301. Federal Water Pollution Control Act penalties.
Sec. 4302. Other penalties. Sec. 4303. Financial responsibility civil penalties. Sec. 4304. Deposit of certain penalties into oil spill liability trust fund. Sec. 4305. Inspection and entry. Sec. 4306. Civil enforcement under Federal Water Pollution Control Act. TITLE V—PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND PROVISIONS Sec. 5001. Oil spill recovery institute. Sec. 5002. Terminal and tanker oversight and monitoring. Sec. 5003. Bligh Reef light. Sec. 5004. Vessel traffic service system. Sec. 5005.
Equipment and personnel requirements under tank vessel and facility response plans. Sec. 5006. Funding. Sec. 5007. Limitation. Sec. 5008. North Pacific Marine Research Institute. TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS Sec. 6001. Savings provisions. Sec. 6002. Annual appropriations. Sec. 6004. Cooperative development of common hydrocarbon-bearing areas. TITLE VII—OIL POLLUTION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Sec. 7001. Oil pollution research and development program. Sec. 7002. Submerged oil program.
TITLE VIII—TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE SYSTEM Sec. 8001. Short title. Subtitle A—Improvements to Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Sec. 8101. Liability within the State of Alaska and cleanup efforts. Sec. 8102. Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund. Sec. 8103. Presidential task force. Subtitle B—Penalties Sec. 8201. Authority of the Secretary of the Interior to impose penalties on Outer Continental Shelf facilities. Sec. 8202. Trans-Alaska pipeline system civil penalties. Subtitle C—Provisions Applicable to Alaska Natives Sec. 8301.
Land conveyances. Sec. 8302. Impact of potential spills in the Arctic Ocean on Alaska Natives. TITLE IX—AMENDMENTS TO OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND, ETC Sec. 9001. Amendments to Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Sec. 9002. Changes relating to other funds. # TITLE I OIL POLLUTION LIABILITY AND COMPENSATION
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