The owners of a ship that spilled 422 gallons of bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay in October 2009 agreed to pay $1.9 million for the cost of responding to the accident plus penalties.
The settlement reached on Tuesday ends a lawsuitfiled earlier the same day.
The California Department of Fish and Game, which is a party to the agreement, found that more than 100 seabirds had been killed as a result, "including grebes, brown pelicans and coots," the agreement says. In all, "over 200 acres of rocky intertidal, sandy beach, marsh/mudflat and eelgrass habitat from Alameda Point to the Oakland Airport" were affected.
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