§2762 Submerged Oil Program

Summary

The Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, working with the Coast Guard Commandant, must set up a program to find, watch, and study submerged oil in the Delaware River and Bay region. The program must create ways to remove or reduce submerged oil, build better models to predict where it goes and how it affects the environment, and develop improved methods to detect and monitor it. The Secretary of Commerce must send a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure no later than 3 years after July 11, 2006, describing what was done and what is planned. The Coast Guard Commandant, with the Under Secretary, must run a demonstration project to develop and show technologies and practices to remove submerged oil from the Delaware River and other navigable waters. Congress may appropriate $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010 for this work.