Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. United States

*231The present case comes before us pursuant to our jurisdiction under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (FWPCA).1 Plaintiffs claims have been transferred to this court from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska (the district court).2

The United States Coast Guard discovered a serious oil spill in the waters of Cook Inlet, near Anchorage, Alaska, on June 8, 1976. The Coast Guard took measures to clean up the spill, incurring $17,236.74 in costs. Sea-Land, the operator of a fuel storage facility in the vicinity, alleges that it also incurred considerable…