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Exhibit "E" Standards and Requirements for the Environmental Site Assessment Components and scope of the environmental audit are as follows: 1. Search of recorded chain of title documents regarding the Property, including, but not limited to all deeds, easements, leases for oil, gas, mineral, lumber, timber, turpentine rights and agricultural purposes, and other uses, restrictions, reverters and covenants, and rights-of-way for roads, railroads and utilities. The chain of title shall be of a sufficient length of time to account for previous ownership and uses of the Property which are likely to have an adverse environmental impact on the Property but in no event for a period of less than 50 years. This history shall be summarized in chronological order from the earliest instrument to the latest instrument listing all parties in the instrument, type of instrument and official record book and page number for each instrument. 2. Personal interviews with prior owners, their employees and with neighboring landowners. 3. Determination of past and present uses of the Property. 4. Review of current and historical aerial photographs of the Property and surrounding area for an evaluation of prior and current use. Copies of the photography shall be enclosed with the environmental audit when possible. 5. Review of Soil Conservation Service surveys and United States Geological Survey periodicals and topographic maps for soil types, ground water characteristics and general topography. 6. Determination of existence of federal, state and local environmental clean up liens against the Property. 7. Review of reasonably obtainable federal, state and local records of existing and potentially contaminated sites, including site investigation reports for such contaminated sites; reasonably obtainable federal, state and local environmental records of activities likely to have an adverse environmental impact on the Property (including records of environmental problem sites, landfill and other disposal site records, underground storage tank records and known hazardous waste handler and generator records); and such other reasonably obtainable federal, state and local environmental records which report incidents of sources of contamination on the Property. B. Determine if prior environmental audits or assessments have been done and if so what it disclosed. 9. Ensure that radon, asbestos and lead painttests are performed by qualified professionals on all habitable structures that will remain on the Property after the Purchaser acquires the Property, unless this requirement is waived by the Purchaser. 10. Property investigation requirements are as follows: a. A visual site inspection of the Property and all facilities and improvements on the Property, and a visual inspection of properties immediately adjacent to the Property, to determine or discover the obviousness of the presence or likely presence of contamination on the Property (including