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Land Use Restrictions (“LUR”) UPDATE
Year Certification Made:2022Project:
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, industrial, parking and, with prior written Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) approval, other commercial
uses. For purposes of this restriction, the following definitions apply:
Industrial defined as the assembly, fabrication, processing, warehousing or distribution of goods or materials.
Office defined as the provision of business or professional services.
Parking defined as the temporary accommodation of motor vehicles in an area designed for same.
Commercial defined asan enterprise carried on for profit or nonprofit by the owner, lessee or licensee.
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The Brownfields Property may not be used for child care, adult care centers or schools without the prior written approval of DEQ.
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Unless compliance with this Land Use Restriction is waived in writing by DEQ in advance in regard to particular activity, no activities that encounter, expose, remove or use groundwater
(for example, installation of water supply wells, ponds, lakes or swimming pools, or construction or excavation activities that encounter or expose groundwater) or surface water may
occur on the Brownfields Property 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. Prior sampling and
analysis of groundwater to the written satisfaction of DEQ in any areas proposed for such activities, and submittal of the analytical results to DEQ is required. If such results reflect
contaminant concentrations that exceed the standards and screening levels applicable to the uses authorized for the Brownfields Property, the groundwater-related activities proposed
may only occur in compliance with any written conditions DEQ imposes. Activities 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.
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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:
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 of, and, as necessary, disposal of contaminated soils excavated during redevelopment.
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Within 90 days 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 V: 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).
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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”;
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 4.
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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 4.
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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 20 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 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 designed, installed, and implemented in a manner that will fully protect public health 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, and
to DEQ. 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.
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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.
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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 Yancey County land records, Book 839, Page 140.” A copy of any such instrument shall be sent to the persons listed in
Section XV (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 XV (Notice 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 XV.
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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;
in fluids in vehicles;
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
in secondary containment no larger than 55 gallons and a site total of no more than 200 gallons.
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Within 60 days after the effective date of the Agreement 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, 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.
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During January of each year after the year in which the Notice referenced in paragraph 20 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 Yancey County, certifying that, as
of said January 1st, the Notice of Brownfields Property containing these land use restrictions remains recorded at the Yancey County Register of Deeds office and that the land use restrictions
are being complied with. The submitted LURU shall state the following:
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
[or each of the owners on whose behalf the joint LURU is submitted] 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 [or each of the owners on whose behalf the joint LURU is submitted]
transferred any part of the Brownfields Property during the previous calendar year [for properties covered under a joint LURU, this portion is not required];
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 of any buildings containing
such vapor barrier and/or mitigation systems have changed, and, if so, how.
LURU’s submitted for any portion of the Brownfields Property that contains rental units shall include a list of tenants and their addresses.
A LURU submitted for rental units shall include the rent roll and enough of each lease entered into during the previous calendar year to demonstrate compliance with lessee notification
requirements in LUR 10, above, and in paragraph 21, of theAgreement provided that if standard form leases are used in every instance, a copy of such standard form lease may be sent in
lieu of copies of actual leases.
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Remarks: Notarized signing and submittal of this LUR Update constitutes certification that the Notice of Brownfields Property remains recorded at the County Register of Deeds offices
and that the LURs are 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: