Notice of Proposed Administrative Settlement Pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as Amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act; Polar Star Superfund Removal Site

摘要

In accordance with section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed CERCLE 122(H) Agreement for Recovery of Past Response Costs ("Agreement") concerning the Polar Star Superfund Removal Site in Dutch Flat, California with Desert Star Group, Inc. ("DSGI") and Tuli P. Haromy, the sole shareholder and sole officer of DSGI. The Agreement requires the settling parties to sell all the real property parcels owned by DSGI in Dutch Flat, and to pay 95% of the net proceeds from such sales to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the "Agency" or "USEPA") Hazardous Substance Superfund. All property must be listed with a real estate listing agent for a period of one year from the effective date of the Agreement. If any property is not sold within that period, it must be offered for sale at a public auction. Upon performance of the Agreement by the settling parties, the settling parties shall have resolved any and all civil liability to USEPA under section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607 (a), for reimbursement of past response costs. For thirty (30) days following the d