STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case asks us to decide whether the United States has waived its sovereign immunity for a suit by a private owner to recover monetary damages for its cleanup of past oil contamination on property that was formerly a United States Navy base. Finding that the United States has not waived its sovereign immunity, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1917, the Defendant-Appellee United States
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