Oil spills: nontank vessels: contingency plans and financial responsibility.

The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response. The act requires a nontank vessel to submit to the administrator specified documents and evidence of financial responsibility. This bill would specifically require, until January 1, 2014, the owner or operator of a nontank vessel within a specific range of gross tonnage that is not used for commercial purposes to submit, as specified, evidence of financial responsibility, payment of the applicable fee, graywater information, sewage information, and vessel particulars at least 96 hours prior to the vessel's arrival in the marine waters of the state, and to submit other required documents within 14 days after the arrival of the vessel. This bill would exempt from these requirements a vessel with insufficient graywater and sewage holding capacity to store graywater and sewage while the vessel is in marine waters of the state and any vessel for which a contingency plan has previously been denied or revoked. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.