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FILE – In this June 4, 2010 file photo, a clean-up worker picks up an absorbent snare filled with oil on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government’s point man on the disaster, said Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, BP’s well « is effectively dead. » A permanent cement plug sealed BP’s well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, five agonizing months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) ORG XMIT: NYGO129