ELR Citation: ELR 21070
No(s). 95-2236 (E.D. La. Feb 8, 1996)

The court holds that the federal government's costs of monitoring a private party's oil spill cleanups are recoverable removal costs under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA). The court first holds that OPA §1001(30) is broad enough to comport with the government's interpretation of "removal" as including ...