LISA DiPINTO: "The seafood safety testing that I have seen has indicated everything is looking good."
But she says the recovery of the Gulf is far from complete. The full effects of the oil spill may not be known for years.
LISA DiPINTO: " We are looking at things we’ve probably never looked at before as the result of an oil spill. So we are looking at things in the offshore deepwater environment, as well as up through the water column and all along the shorelines."
An Inspector displays oiled sand in a sifter as a cleanup crew works on Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La
BP agreed last year to put twenty billion dollars into a fund to pay fishing boat owners, workers and other people affected by the spill. BP is the British-based energy company that operated the well and leased the Deepwater Horizon from the rig's owner, Transocean.
In December the federal government announced civil action against BP, Transocean and other companies connected to the spill.
Observances of the first anniversary took place along the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday.
The spill led the Obama administration to halt deep-water drilling in the Gulf. That moratorium ended in October. But the government has given very few permits since then. Oil and gas companies say new rules prevent them from moving quickly to increase production.
Administration officials say they are preparing new rules that will do more to enforce safety and let drilling operations continue. The Gulf of Mexico provides about thirty percent of the oil produced in the United States.
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