US to send BP 69-million-dollar bill for spill expenses

WASHINGTON - The White House said it would Thursday send BP a first, 69-million-dollar bill for government expenses incurred in the effort to mitigate the disastrous Gulf Coast oil spill.

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Published: Fri 4 Jun 2010, 1:52 AM

Last updated: Thu 2 Apr 2015, 9:55 AM

“The federal government will, at some point today, send what I would call a bill for 69 million dollars of expenses incurred up to this point to BP to be reimbursed to the taxpayers as a part of the Oil Pollution Act,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

The Act was passed in 1990 in the wake of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska to make big oil firms responsible for paying for the cleanup of oil disasters.


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