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 Enviropur West Corporation,

Chap. 7, Bankr. No. LA-96-23683-SB (USBC C.D. Cal.) was filed on or

about December 31, 1997 with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the

Central District of California. This Settlement Agreement resolves a

claim filed by the United States against Enviropur West Corporation,

pursuant to Section 107(a), 42 U.S.C. 9607(a). The settling debtor was

the owner/operator of a facility located in Signal Hill, California

(the ``Site'') at the time of disposal of hazardous substances. The

Settlement Agreement provides, among other things, that the Trustee, on

behalf of the debtor's estate, will pay $30,000 to the Hazardous

Substance Superfund for response costs incurred by the United States at

the Site. In addition, the Trustee, on behalf of the debtor's estate,

will pay 10% of any funds in the debtor's estate, after the Trustee has

paid certain other specified claims and expenses.

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 Enviropur West Corporation, DOJ #90-11-3-1656B.

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. 98-910 Filed 1-13-98; 8:45 am]

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