DATE:  June 28, 1993
CASE NO. 93-WPC-0003


IN THE MATTER OF

KEITH E. IVERSON,

          COMPLAINANT,

     v.

TOWN OF KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA,

          RESPONDENT.


BEFORE:  THE SECRETARY OF LABOR


                     FINAL ORDER APPROVING SETTLEMENT
                    AGREEMENT AND DISMISSING COMPLAINT

     This case is before me for review of the Recommended Order
Accepting Settlement terms of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ)
in this case under the employee protection provision of the Water
Pollution Control Act (WPCA), 33 U.S.C. § 1367.  Before the
ALJ, Complainant submitted a Release signed by him and his wife,
but no one signed the Release as representative of Respondent,
the Town of Keystone.  Pursuant to the Order of April 7, 1993,
Respondent submitted a Certification of Informed Consent to
Release, signed by the Board of Trustees (governing body) of the
Town of Keystone.  
     I have limited my review of the Release to determining
whether its terms are a fair, adequate and reasonable settlement
of Complainant's allegation that Respondent violated the WPCA. 
See Poulos v. Ambassador Fuel Oil Co., Inc., Case
No. 86-CAA-1, Sec. Ord., Nov. 2, 1987, slip op. at 2.  Upon
review of the terms of the Release and the record, I find that
the Release is fair, adequate and reasonable, and I approve it. 
Accordingly, the complaint is DISMISSED.  

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     SO ORDERED.


               ROBERT B. REICH
               Secretary of Labor

Washington, D.C.