CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / SAN FRANCISCO
Officials say they have received $2.8 million to restore habitats of sea otters and birds whose homes have been periodically damaged by oil spilling from a freighter that sank more than a half-century ago.
The source of the spills was the S.S. Jacob Luckenbach, a freighter that sank in 1953 about 17 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge.
In 2002, federal and state officials found the ship and identified it as the source of numerous mystery oil spills along Northern California beaches. The U.S. Coast Guard oversaw a $19-million oil removal from the wreck.
Since the ship’s owners no longer exist, the cleanup funds come from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, fees paid by the oil industry and managed by the Coast Guard.
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