Notice of Filing of Settlement Agreement Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Recovery Act (``CERCLA'')

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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