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