[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 7180]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3592]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice of Filing of Settlement Agreement Pursuant to the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Recovery Act
(``CERCLA'')
In accordance with Departmental policy, 28 CFR 50.7, and Section
122(d)(2) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(d)(2), notice is hereby given that
a proposed Settlement Agreement in In re R.C. Dick Geothermal
Corporation, Chap. 7, Bankr. No. 92-1-1293, and In re R.C. Dick
Geothermal L.P., Chap. 7, Bankr. No. 92-1-1294, (Substantively
Consolidated) (referred to herein collectively as ``R.C. Dick'') was
filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District
of California on January 23, 1998. This Settlement Agreement resolves
an Administrative Expense claim filed by the United States against R.C.
Dick, pursuant to Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a). The settling
debtors were the owners/operators of a facility located on 1,100 acres
in a remote location in Northern Sonoma and Southern Mendocino Counties
(the ``Site'') at the time of disposal of hazardous substances. The
Settlement Agreement provides that the Trustee, on behalf of the
debtor's estate, will pay 50% of any funds remaining in the bankruptcy
estate, after the payment of the Trustee's fees and expenses and any
other professional fees approved by the Court, to the Hazardous
Substance Superfund for response costs incurred by the United States at
the Site. In addition, the United States may perfect a lien against the
real property owned by the debtor for any unpaid costs incurred with
respect to the Site.
The Department of Justice will receive, for a period of thirty (30)
days from the date of this publication, comments relating to the
proposed Settlement Agreement. Comments should be addressed to the
Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources
Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 20530, and should
refer to In re R.C. Dick Geothermal Corporation, DOJ #90-11-2-1298.
The proposed Settlement Agreement may be examined at the office of
the Region IX office of the Environmental Protection Agency, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105; and at the Consent
Decree Library, 1120 G Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005,
(202) 624-0892. A copy of the proposed Settlement Agreement may be
obtained in person or by mail from the Consent Decree Library, 1120 G
Street, N.W., 4th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005. In requesting a copy
please refer to the referenced case and enclose a check in the amount
of $5.25 (25 cents per page reproduction costs), payable to the Consent
Decree Library.
Joel M. Gross,
Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural
Resources Division.
[FR Doc. 98-3592 Filed 2-11-98; 8:45 am]
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