Offshore Installation Emergency Evacuation Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to promulgate regulations: (1) within 90 days of enactment, requiring a manned standby vessel equipped with a radio to be in the immediate vicinity of all manned installations on the Outer Continental Shelf; and (2) within 180 days of enactment, identifying and requiring appropriate facilities, to supplement such manned standby vessel, in order to provide for the safest possible evacuation of such manned installations.
Defines "manned installation" as any of various types of structures used in the drilling, exploration, or production of hydrocarbons.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Executive Comment Requested from DOT, Interior.
Referred to Subcommittee on Panama Canal and Outer Continental Shelf.
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From DOT.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From Interior.
Unfavorable Executive Comment Received From Interior.
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