Barge Morris J. Berman
Incident occurred off Punta Escambrón, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Date/Time Frame
- January 7, 1994
- Statute
- OPA
- State
- Puerto Rico
- Substances
- oil
- Injury
- Corals, Sediment, Soil, Surface Water
Consent Decrees:
2000.12.27
- Federal Trustees:
- Department of the Interior (DOI), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
- State Trustees:
- Board of Environmental Quality of Puerto Rico (BEQ), Department of Natural Resources of Puerto Rico (DNR), Puerto Rico Tourism Co.
- Potentially Responsible Parties:
- MetLife Capital Corp. (now General Electric Capital Business Asset Funding Corp.), Caribbean Petroleum Corp. (CPC), Water Quality Insurance Syndicate (WQIS), Bunker Group Puerto Rico Inc., New England Marine Services Inc.