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HomeMy WebLinkAbout13023_Beacon Manufacturing_LURU Model_20171218NC BROWNFIELDS LAND USE RESTRICTIONS (“LUR”) UPDATE Year Certification Made: 2017 Name: Beacon Manufacturing Co. Project #: 13023-09-011 Address: 202 Whitson Avenue County: Buncombe Property Owner (In part or whole): ____________________________ 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: NC Division of Waste Management Attn: Brownfields Program Staff 1646 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC  27699-1646 No use may be made of the Brownfields Property other than for mixed use development which includes multi-family residential, industrial, retail, office, recreation, and other commercial uses with prior written Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) approval. For purposes of this restriction, the following definitions apply: “Multi-Family Residential” defined as multi-unit human dwellings, such as condominia or apartments. Single family homes, townhomes, duplexes, or units with yards are prohibited unless approved in writing by DEQ in advance. “Industrial” defined as the assembly, fabrication, processing, warehousing or distribution of goods or materials. “Retail” defined as the sale of goods or services, products, or merchandise directly to the consumer or businesses and includes showrooms, personal service, and the sales of food and beverage products. “Office” defined as the provision of business or professional services. “Recreation” defined as indoor and outdoor exercise-related, physically focused, or leisure-related activities, whether active or passive, and the facilities for same, including, but not limited to, studios, swimming pools, sports-related courts and fields, open space, greenways, parks, playgrounds, walking paths, and picnic and public gathering areas. “Commercial” defined as an enterprise carried on for profit or nonprofit by the owner, lessee or licensee. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ The Brownfields Property may not be used for child care, adult care centers or schools without the prior written approval of DEQ. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ The Northern Parcel and Southern Parcel of the Brownfields Property may not be used for residential purposes and shall be depicted on the plat component of the Notice as “Industrial/Commercial Use Only”. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ The Brownfields Property may not be used for dry cleaning services that use chlorinated solvents. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Groundwater at the Brownfields Property may not be used for any purpose, other than in connection with legally compliant storm water collection and reuse techniques, without the prior written approval of DEQ. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Within 30 days following recordation of the Notice, the then owner of the Brownfields Property shall submit to DEQ a written plan for monitoring groundwater at the Brownfields Property through sampling and analysis. The plan shall not be considered satisfactory unless and until DEQ states as much in writing. The plan shall require: installation and/or designation of three (3) monitoring wells to be sampled pursuant to the plan; sampling of the designated wells for volatile organic compounds at least once each year during the same thirty-day period; analysis of the samples by the most current version of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Method 8260; provision of the sampling analyses to DEQ in writing within 30 days after sampling; and replacement of any of the designated wells if DEQ determines it warranted in writing due to redevelopment activities. When the plan requires sampling, analysis, reporting or replacement of a well installed pursuant to the plan, the then owner of the affected portion(s) of the Brownfields Property shall be responsible for compliance. The plan shall be available from DEQ and may be amended with DEQ’s prior written approval. The required monitoring shall continue until sampling pursuant to the plan shows the concentrations of any and all volatile organic compounds present in excess of the standards set forth in the most current version of Title 15A of the North Carolina Administrative Code, Subchapter 2L, Rule .0202 (April 1, 2013 version), are stable, declining or undetected for a minimum of three (3) consecutive years. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ No activity that disturbs soil on any area of the Brownfields Property, including the “Area of Potential Buried Debris” as delineated on the plat component of the Notice, 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 Property will be suitable for the uses specified in LUR number 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 below in LUR 11. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Upon completion of development of the Brownfields Property, prospective developer, or the then owner of the Brownfields Property shall conduct representative final grade soil sampling of any area within the Brownfields Property pursuant to a plan approved in writing by DEQ that is not covered by building foundations, sidewalks, or asphaltic or concrete parking areas and driveways. Should the prospective developer or the then owner of the Brownfields Property complete development of only a portion of the Brownfields Property, the prospective developer or then owner shall restrict access to any remaining areas not covered by building foundations, sidewalks, asphaltic or concrete parking areas and driveways. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ No enclosed building may be constructed on the Brownfields Property, or 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 risk of vapor intrusion based on site assessment data or a site-specific risk assessment approved in writing by DEQ; or the building is or would be sufficiently distant from the Brownfields Property’s groundwater and/or soil contamination based on assessment data approved in writing by DEQ that the building’s users, public health and the environment will be protected from risk from vapor intrusion related to said contamination; or vapor intrusion mitigation measures are installed and/or implemented to the satisfaction of a professional engineer licensed in North Carolina, as evidenced by said engineer’s professional seal on a report that includes photographs and a description of the installation and performance of said measures. Any design specification for vapor intrusion mitigation measures shall be approved in writing by DEQ in advance of installation and/or implementation of said measures. The design specifications shall include methodology(ies) for demonstrating performance of said measures. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Unless compliance with this LUR is waived in writing in advance by DEQ in relation to particular buildings, no use of the Brownfields Property may occur prior to demolition and/or renovation of any or all buildings on the Brownfields Property depicted on the plat component of the Notice 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 compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Physical redevelopment of the Brownfields Property may not occur other than in accord, as determined by DEQ, with an 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: 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; 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 of, and, as necessary, disposal of contaminated soils excavated during redevelopment. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out 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 compliance ☐ Out 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 11. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Any deed or other instrument conveying an interest in the Brownfields Property shall contain the following notice: “The Property which is the subject of this instrument is subject to the Brownfields Agreement attached as Exhibit A to the Notice of Brownfields Property recorded in the Buncombe County land records, Book 5612, Page 1919.” A copy of any such instrument shall be sent to the persons listed in Section XV (Notices and Submissions), though financial figures related to the conveyance may be redacted. If DEQ issues prior, written approval, Prospective Developer may use the following mechanisms to comply with the obligations of this paragraph, subject to the terms and conditions that DEQ may establish in such approval: (i) If every lease and rider is identical in form, Prospective Developer may provide DEQ with copies of a form lease or rider evidencing compliance with this paragraph, in lieu of sending copies of actual, executed leases, to the persons listed in Section XV (Notice and Submissions) of the Exhibit A; or (ii) Prospective Developer may provide abstracts of leases, rather than full copies of said leases, to the persons listed in said Section XV. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out 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 Exhibit A 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; and in fluids in vehicles. ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Within 60 days after the effective date of the Exhibit A or prior to land disturbance activities, Prospective Developer shall abandon monitoring wells, injection wells, recovery wells, piezometers and other manmade points of groundwater access at the Brownfields Property, except those wells identified on plat map, in accordance with Subchapter 2C of Title 15A of the North Carolina Administrative Code, unless an alternate schedule is approved by DEQ.  Within 30 days after doing so, the Prospective Developer shall provide DEQ a report, setting forth the procedures and results.  ☐ In compliance ☐ Out 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 compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ During January of each year after the year in which the Notice is recorded, the owner of any part of the Brownfields Property as of January 1st of that year shall submit a notarized Land Use Restrictions Update (“LURU”) to DEQ, and to the chief public health and environmental officials of Buncombe County, certifying that, as of said January 1st, the Notice containing these land use restrictions remains recorded at the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office and that the land use restrictions are being complied with, and stating: the name, mailing address, telephone and facsimile numbers, and contact person’s e-mail address of the owner or board, association or approved entity submitting the LURU if said owner acquired any part of the Brownfields Property during the previous calendar year; ______________________________________________________________ the transferee’s name, mailing address, telephone and facsimile numbers, and contact person’s e-mail address, if said owner transferred any part of the Brownfields Property during the previous calendar year; ______________________________________________________________ whether any vapor barrier and/or mitigation systems installed pursuant to LUR 9 above are performing as designed, and whether the uses of the ground floors of any buildings containing such vapor barrier and/or mitigation systems have changed, and, if so, how. ______________________________________________________________ ☐ In compliance ☐ Out of compliance Remarks: ______________________________________________________________ Notarized signing and submittal of this Land Use Restrictions Update constitutes certification that the Notice of Brownfields Property remains recorded at the Gaston County Register of Deeds office and that the Land Use Restrictions are being complied with. This Land Use Restrictions Update is certified by _____________, owner of at least part of the Brownfields Property 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: ___________________ NORTH CAROLINA __________ 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 Notary ____________________________________ Notary’s printed or typed name, Notary Public (Official Seal) My commission expires: _________________