Courtesy Fog City Journal: Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md) will hold a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation in San Francisco Monday to look into the San Francisco Bay oil spill and procedures for dealing with oil spills in general.

Cummings’ Maryland district includes Baltimore harbor, part of Chesapeake Bay, an extremely large and diverse system of bays [map] with lots of industry, including oil refineries.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that drug tests were not administered to the crew of the Cosco Busan until 53 hours after the accident last week.

The SJMN website also published an article that pointed out the design of the Cosco Busan, with fuel tanks alongside the outer hull, has been banned for new ships beginning in 2010. A UC-Berkeley professor compared the dangerous design to that of the Ford Pinto, which infamously had its gas tanks positioned in such a way that a minor rear-end collision could make the car burst into flames.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard said there was no more oil to skim from Bay waters, and some beaches were reopened.