SS Cape Mohican Oil Spill Trustee Council

SS Cape Mohican Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment Available July 2002

The final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (RP/EA) has Prepared by the been completed by the SS Cape Mohican SS Cape Mohican Trustee Council Trustee Council. The Trustee Council is composed of the National Park Service of America (NPS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Park Service (USFWS), National Oceanic and Fish and Wildlife Service Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Oceanic Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), and California Department of Parks and Atmospheric Administration Biannual Budget Report and Recreation (CDPR). The RP/EA October 2004 describes projects selected to restore the State of California environmental and public uses injured as a Department of Fish and Game result of the SS Cape Mohican oil spill in Department of Parks and Recreation October 1996.

The plan may be viewed online at: www.darcnw.noaa.gov/mohicn.htm or www.dfg.ca.gov/ospr/organizational/scientif ic/nrda/cmohican.pdf

October 2004 Budget Overview Funds from Settlement: $3,625,000 Allocated Funds Project Thru FY04 Spent Shorebird Habitat Protection $7,000 $0 (NPS) California Least Tern $107,000 $58,785 Habitat (USFWS) Acquisition, Enhancement, $0 $0 and Management of Red

Rock Island (CDFG) On October 28, 1996, the SS Cape Mohican The following projects were selected by the Restoration of Shorebird $50,000 $11,669 discharged approximately 96,000 gallons of Trustee Council: Foraging Habitat/Cordgrass heavy bunker fuel oil into a floating dry dock at • Shorebird Habitat Protection at Golden (USFWS) the Drydock Shipyard. Gate National Recreation Area, Farallon Seabird $50,000 $31,181 Restoration (USFWS) Approximately 40,000 gallons spilled into San • California Least Tern Habitat Pacific Herring Spawning $408,500 $0 Francisco Bay. Oil spread from Pier 70 south to Enhancement at Point, Habitat Enhancement Hunter’s Point and north into the central Bay, • Acquisition, Enhancement and Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Alcatraz, Yerba (CDFG) Management of (this Wetland Restoration at $70,648 $0 Buena, Treasure and Angel Islands. The project has been declared infeasible and Tiburon Peninsula and San Francisco Pier 98 (CDFG) transferred to nonpreferred status), Steelhead Habitat $40,000 $24,991 waterfront were also oiled. The oil traveled • Restoration of Shorebird Foraging outside of the into the Gulf of the Enhancement (CDFG) Habitat through Control of Exotic Giacomini Coastal Wetlands $0 $0 Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, oiling Cordgrass, beaches as far north as Drakes Beach, in the Restoration (NPS) • Point Reyes National Seashore, and as far south Farallon Seabird Restoration, Sandy Beach $140,000 $106,47 as Pillar Point. • Pacific Herring Spawning Habitat Habitat Restoration 0 Enhancement in , at PRNS (NPS) • Wetland Restoration at Pier 98 India Protection of Duxbury Reef $180,000 $0 Basin, through Education (NOAA) • Steelhead Stream Habitat Enhancement Angel Island $180,000 $162,53 at San Francisquito Creek, Foot Trail Enhancement 6 (CDPR) • Giacomini Coastal Wetlands Restoration, Habitat $629,126 $601,602 Stewardship Program (NPS) • Sandy Beach Habitat Restoration at Total $1,862,274 $997,234 Point Reyes National Seashore, Remaining Funds $1,762,726 • Protection of Duxbury Reef Through

Education, • Angel Island Foot Trail Enhancement, and • Crissy Field Habitat Stewardship Program.