[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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