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HomeMy WebLinkAbout23088_Electrical Apparatus & Machine_LURU ModelNC BROWNFIELDS Land Use Restrictions (“LUR”) UPDATE Year CertificationMade:2021Project: Project Number: Address:County:Property Owner (In part or whole)/Association: Read the following LURs and mark each restriction accordingly. Additional remarks may be added for compliance status clarification.Attach any required or supplemental documentation,sign, notarize and submit to the following address or email: NC Division of Waste Management Attn: Brownfields Property Management Unit 1646 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC  27699-1646 BFPropertyManagement@ncdenr.gov No use may be made of the Brownfields Property other than for office, retail, parking, high density residential, open space, and subject to the Department of Environmental Quality’s (“DEQ”) prior written approval, other commercial uses. For purposes of this restriction, the following definitions apply: “Office” is defined as a place where business or professional services are provided. “Retail” is defined as the sale of goods or services, products, or merchandise directly to the consumer or businesses and includes showrooms, personal service, farmer’s markets, food festivals, and the sales of food and beverage products, including from mobile establishments such as food trucks. “Parking” is defined as the temporary accommodation of motor vehicles in an area designed for same. “High Density Residential” is defined as permanent dwellings where residential units are attached to each other with common walls, such as condominia, apartments, group homes, dormitories or boarding houses, and any property outside the dwelling structures is usable by all residents and not privately owned as part of a particular unit (e.g., privately-owned courtyards are prohibited), and may include related amenities, such as pools, clubhouses, courtyards, common areas, recreation areas and parking garages. Single family homes are prohibited; townhomes, duplexes or other units with yards are prohibited unless approved in writing by DEQ in advance. “Open Space” is defined as land maintained in a natural or landscaped state and used for natural resource protection, buffers, greenways, parks, or detention facilities for storm water. “Commercial” is defined asan enterprise carried on for profit or nonprofit by the owner, lessee or licensee. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: Physical redevelopment of the Brownfields Property may not occur other than in accord, as determined by DEQ, with an Environmental Management Plan (“EMP”) approved in writing by DEQ in advance (and revised to DEQ’s written satisfaction prior to each subsequent redevelopment phase) that is consistent with all the other land use restrictions and describes redevelopment activities at the Brownfields Property, the timing of redevelopment phases, and addresses health, safety and environmental issues that may arise from use of the Brownfields Property during construction or redevelopment in any other form, including without limitation: demolition of existing buildings, if applicable; soil and water management issues, including without limitation those resulting from contamination identified in the Environmental Reports; issues related to potential sources of contamination referenced in Exhibit 2 of the Agreement; contingency plans for addressing, including without limitation the testing of soil and groundwater, newly discovered potential sources of environmental contamination (e.g., USTs, tanks, drums, septic drain fields, oil-water separators, soil contamination); and plans for the proper characterization and DEQ approval of both fill soil before import to the Brownfields Property and the disposition of excavated soil during redevelopment; In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: No later than January 31 after each one-year anniversary of the effective date of the Agreement for as long as physical redevelopment of the Brownfields Property continues (except that the final deadline shall fall 90 days after the conclusion of physical redevelopment), the then owner of the Brownfields Property shall provide DEQ a report subject to written DEQ approval on environment-related activities since the last report, with a summary and drawings, that describes: actions taken on the Brownfields Property in accordance with Section VI: Work to be Performed above; soil grading and cut and fill actions; methodology(ies) employed for field screening, sampling and laboratory analysis of environmental media; stockpiling, containerizing, decontaminating, treating, handling, laboratory analysis and ultimate disposition of any soil, groundwater, or other materials suspected or confirmed to be contaminated with regulated substances; and removal of any contaminated soil, water or other contaminated materials (for example, concrete, demolition debris) from the Brownfields Property (copies of all legally required manifests shall be included). In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: Unless compliance with this Land Use Restriction is waived in writing in advance by DEQ in relation to particular buildings, demolition and/or renovation of any or all buildings on the Brownfields Property depicted on the plat component of the Notice referenced in paragraph 16 below shall be in accordance with applicable legal requirements, including without limitation those related to lead and asbestos abatement that are administered by the Health Hazards Control Unit within the Division of Public Health of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: Groundwater at the Brownfields Property may not be used for any purpose without the prior written approval of DEQ along with any measures DEQ deems necessary to ensure the Brownfields Property will be suitable for the uses specified in LUR 1 above while fully protecting public health and the environment. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: No activity that disturbs soil on the Brownfields Property, may occur unless and until DEQ states in writing, in advance of the proposed activity, that said activity may occur if carried out along with any measures DEQ deems necessary to ensure the Brownfields Property will be suitable for the uses specified in LUR 1 above while fully protecting public health and the environment, except: in connection with landscape planting to depths not exceeding 24 inches; mowing and pruning of above-ground vegetation; for repair of underground infrastructure, provided that DEQ shall be given written notice at least seven days in advance of a scheduled repair (if only by email) of any such repair, or in emergency circumstances no later than the next business day, and that any related assessment and remedial measures required by DEQ shall be taken; and in connection to work conducted in accordance with a DEQ-approved Environmental Management Plan (EMP) as outlined above in LUR 2. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: Soil may not be removed from, or brought onto, the Brownfields Property without prior sampling and analysis to DEQ’s satisfaction and the written approval of DEQ, unless conducted in accordance with an approved EMP as outlined above in LUR 2. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: No enclosed building may be constructed on the Brownfields Property and no existing building, defined as those depicted on the plat component of the Notice of Brownfields Property referenced in paragraph 16 of the Agreement, may be occupied until DEQ determines in writing that: the building is or would be protective of the building’s users, public health and the environment from the risk of vapor intrusion based on a site-specific risk assessment using reasonably current and thorough site assessment data to DEQ’s written satisfaction; the building is or would be sufficiently distant from the Brownfields Property’s groundwater and/or soil contamination based on reasonably current and thorough site-specific assessment data to DEQ’s written satisfaction such that the building’s users, public health and the environment will be protected from risk of vapor intrusion related to said contamination; or vapor intrusion mitigation measures are or shall be designed, installed, inspected, and implemented in a manner, subject to DEQ’s written satisfaction, that fully protects public health to the written satisfaction of a professional engineer licensed in North Carolina, as evidenced by said engineer’s professional seal certifying in a report that: 1) the vapor intrusion mitigation system is designed to protect public health, 2) they personally inspected the installation of the system, and 3) the integrity of the system as installed, based on sufficient performance testing, has not been compromised. Such a report shall include photographs and a description of the installation and performance of said measures to DEQ’s written satisfaction. All design specifications for vapor intrusion mitigation measures shall be submitted to DEQ in advance of installation and/or implementation of said measures. Any design specifications shall include methodology(ies) for demonstrating performance of said measures and shall be submitted to DEQ in advance of installation and/or implementation, with such installation and implementation subject to DEQ’s written satisfaction. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: Neither DEQ, nor any party conducting environmental assessment or remediation at the Brownfields Property at the direction of, or pursuant to a permit, order or agreement issued or entered into by DEQ, may be denied access to the Brownfields Property for purposes of conducting such assessment or remediation, which is to be conducted using reasonable efforts to minimize interference with authorized uses of the Brownfields Property. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: The owner of any portion of the Brownfields Property where any existing, or subsequently installed, DEQ-approved monitoring well is damaged by the owner, its contractors, or its tenants shall be responsible for repair of any such wells to DEQ’s written satisfaction and within a time period acceptable to DEQ, unless compliance with this LUR is waived in writing by DEQ in advance. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: Any deed or other instrument conveying an interest in the Brownfields Property shall contain the following notice: “This property is subject to the Brownfields Agreement attached as Exhibit A to the Notice of Brownfields Property recorded in the Mecklenburg County land records, Book 35759, Page 135.” A copy of any such instrument shall be sent to the persons listed in Section XVII (Notices and Submissions), though financial figures and other confidential information related to the conveyance may be redacted to the extent said redactions comply with the confidentiality and trade secret provisions of the North Carolina Public Records Law. The owner may use the following mechanisms to comply with the obligations of this subparagraph: (i) If every lease and rider is identical in form, the owner conveying an interest may provide DEQ with copies of a form lease or rider evidencing compliance with this subparagraph, in lieu of sending copies of actual, executed leases, to the persons listed in Section XVII (Notices and Submissions); or (ii) The owner conveying an interest may provide abstracts of leases, rather than full copies of said leases, to the persons listed in Section XVII. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: None of the contaminants known to be present in the environmental media at the Brownfields Property, as described in Exhibit 2 of the Agreement, and as modified by DEQ in writing if additional contaminants in excess of applicable standards are discovered at the Brownfields Property, may be used or stored at the Brownfields Property without the prior written approval of DEQ, except: in de minimis quantities for cleaning and other routine housekeeping and maintenance activities; ii. in fluids in vehicles; iii. as constituents of products and materials customarily used and stored in office, retail or multi-family residential environments, provided such products and materials are stored in original retail packaging and used and disposed of in accordance with applicable laws; for vehicle maintenance, service, car wash and body work in compliance with applicable law (though vehicle parts and tools may not be washed in chlorinated solvents containing any contaminants known to be present in the environmental media at the Brownfields Property); as constituents of fuels, lubricants and oils in emergency generators, machinery, equipment and vehicles in on-board tanks integral to said equipment or in flammable liquid storage containers totaling no more than 25 gallons; and as fuel or other fluids customarily used in vehicles, landscaping equipment and emergency generators. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: During January of each year after the year in which the Notice referenced in paragraph 16 of the Agreement is recorded, the owner of any part of the Brownfields Property as of January 1stof that year shall submit a notarized Land Use Restrictions Update (“LURU”) to DEQ, and to the chief public health and environmental officials of Mecklenburg County, certifying that, as of said January 1st, the Notice of Brownfields Property containing these land use restrictions remains recorded at the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds office and that the land use restrictions are being complied with. If the property is transferred, the grantor shall submit a LURU (as outlined above) which covers the period of time they owned the property. The submitted LURU shall state the following: the name, mailing address, telephone number, and contact person’s e-mail address of the owner, or board, association or approved entity, submitting the LURU if said owner, or each of the owners on whose behalf a joint LURU is submitted, acquired any part of the Brownfields Property during the previous calendar year; the transferee’s name, mailing address, telephone number, and contact person’s e-mail address, if said owner,or each of the owners on whose behalf a joint LURU is submitted, transferred any part of the Brownfields Property during the previous calendar year; whether any vapor barrier and/or mitigation systems installed pursuant to LUR 8 above are performing as designed, and whether the uses of the ground floors, including any tenant renovations that may potentially disturb the existing structure ground surface floor, of any buildings containing such vapor barrier and/or mitigation systems have changed, and, if so, how, and under which precautions so as not to interfere with the operation of said system. A joint LURU may be submitted for multiple owners by a duly constituted board or association and shall include the name, mailing address, telephone number, and contact person’s e-mail address of the entity submitting the joint LURU as well as for each of the owners on whose behalf the joint LURU is submitted. In complianceOut of compliance Remarks: Notarized signing and submittal of this LUR Updateconstitutes certification that the Notice of Brownfields Propertyremains recorded at theCounty Register of Deeds offices and that the LURsare being complied with. This LUR Update is certified by, the owner of at least part of the Brownfields Property, or if appropriate another entity on behalf of some or all owners, on this day of, 20. Name typed or printed of party making certification: [Note: additional entities or owners may be added if appropriate (i.e. multiple managing members/entities)]By:__________________________ (signature) Name typed or printed: Title typed or printed: COUNTY I certify that the following person(s) personally appeared before me this day, each acknowledging to me that he or she voluntarily signed the foregoing document for the purpose stated therein and in the capacity indicated: .Date: ___________________________________Official Signature of NotaryNotary’s printed or typed name, Notary Public(Official Seal)My commission expires: