Innocent Landowners Protection Act
This bill exempts a person who has an ownership interest in a facility for oil exploration, development, production, or storage but does not participate in managing that facility from certain liability for oil spills and related pollution.
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to clarify the responsibility of 
 landowners who do not participate in the operation of oil facilities, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Innocent Landowners Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESPONSIBLE PARTY.

    Section 1001(32)(B) of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 
2701(32)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(B) Onshore facilities.--In the case of an 
                onshore facility (other than a pipeline), any person 
                owning or operating the facility, except--
                            ``(i) a Federal agency, State, 
                        municipality, commission, or political 
                        subdivision of a State, or any interstate body, 
                        that as the owner transfers possession and 
                        right to use the property to another person by 
                        lease, assignment, or permit; or
                            ``(ii) with respect to a facility for oil 
                        exploration, development, production, or 
                        storage, a person with an ownership interest in 
                        the facility who does not participate in 
                        management of the facility, if the acquisition 
                        of such interest by the person was not designed 
                        to avoid the liability of any person under this 
                        Act.''.
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Innocent Landowners Protection Act
To amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to clarify the responsibility of landowners who do not participate in the operation of oil facilities, and for other purposes.
Innocent Landowners Protection Act
Rep. Gibbs, Bob