US SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

Florida Oil Spill Prevention and Pollution Control Act, providing for the State's recovery of cleanup costs and imposing strict, no-fault liability on waterfront oil-handling facilities and ships destined for or leaving such facilities for any oil-spill damage to the State or private persons, does not, in the context of this action by shipping interests to enjoin application of the Florida statute, invade a regulatory area preempted by the federal Water Quality Improvement Act, which is concerned solely with recovery of actual cleanup costs incurred by the Federal Government, and presupposes a coordinated federal-state effort to deal with coastal oil pollution. Nor is the State's police power over sea-to-shore pollution preempted by the Admiralty Extension Act, which does not purport to supply an exclusive remedy in this admiralty-related situation. Southern Pacific Co. v. Jewsen, 244 U. S. 205, and Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart, 253 U. S. 149, distinguished. Pp. 411 U. S. 329-344.

335 F.Supp. 1241, reversed.

DOUGLAS, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. chanrobles.com-red

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