Opinion ID: 688768
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: McClellan's Current Operations

Text: 33 MESS also claims that current operations at McClellan are not in compliance with RCRA permitting requirements. We accept the district court's determination that the Interagency Agreement does not cover McClellan's active sites. Findings and Determination RE: Jurisdiction, p. 26. Section 113 thus does not bar MESS's claims asserting RCRA noncompliance at those active sites. Some dispute existed between the parties both in briefing and at oral argument over what the term current operations included. In order to clarify the limits of our holding, we also adopt the district court's characterization of current operations as those involving active waste treatment and storage sites not covered by the Interagency Agreement. 34 When the district court entered its original judgment, it purported to determine all claims. Because the jurisdictional bar of Section 113(h) of CERCLA had not been asserted before the district court at that time, the court did not differentiate in its opinions between those sites that were subject to the CERCLA cleanup plan and those active sites that were not. It is accordingly not clear to us now just what claims remain relating to the active sites not covered by the cleanup plan, and what disposition, if any, the district court already may have made of those claims. 35 That determination is a difficult one no matter who makes it. We conclude, however, that the district court is in the best position to secure the active participation of the litigants in determining exactly what, if anything, is left of this case. We therefore remand the matter to the district court for determinations concerning: (1) the extent of MESS's claims not precluded by Section 113(h) of CERCLA or otherwise abandoned; (2) the degree to which the district court has already ruled on those claims: and (3) any further determinations (with or without evidentiary proceedings) that the district court deems appropriate or necessary to dispose of this case and enter a new final judgment.