Final Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment for Marine Resources for the M/V Selendang Ayu Oil Spill Unalaska, Alaska, July 2025

On December 6, 2004, while traveling through the Aleutian Islands, the M/V Selendang Ayu experienced engine trouble during adverse weather conditions, grounded two days later on the shore of Unalaska Island, Alaska, and spilled approximately 350,000 gallons of oil.  Under authority of the Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA; 33 U.S.C. §§ 2701, et seq.), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and four State agencies (State of Alaska Departments of Law, Natural Resources, Environmental Conservation, and Fish and Game), collectively the "Trustees," conducted a natural resource damage assessment.  This Restoration Plan provides the Trustees' intended restoration program to offset the harm to “marine resources”, which, in this case, refers to shoreline habitats, including gravel beaches, rocky shores, vegetated habitats, and stream channels and flats. (Marine mammals, birds, and the human uses of natural resources impacted by the spill will be addressed as part of a separate restoration plan.)