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Breeze Agricultural Conservation Easement (I) 12/21/07 draft (clean) ~ ~ <br />The grant of any easements or use restrictions that might diminish or impair the <br />agricultural viability or productivity of the Property or otherwise diminish or impair the <br />Conservation Values of the Property is prohibited. Any such easements or restrictions shall be <br />subordinated to this Conservation Easement. Grantor may, with the advance written permission <br />of Grantee, which permission shall not be unreasonably withheld, grant and convey an easement <br />for ingress, egress and regress and for utility purposes in order to provide access to the property <br />identified as "XX~~ Acres of Tract 1 Excluded from Conservation Easement" on the recorded <br />plat. [NRCS recommends that the width of any future access roads through the conservation <br />easement be restricted to single lane only-both in easement agreement and on recorded plat. <br />Shaw will confer v~nth Planning & County Attorney on suitable language.] Any such easements <br />shall be subordinate to this Conservation Easement, shall be located wholly within the area <br />designated "Future Variable Width Right of Way" on the recorded plat, and the impervious <br />surface limits on the Property as described in Paragraph 7(b) of this Conservation Easement shall <br />pertain to any impervious surface within any such easement. <br />31. Grantor's Environmental Warranty <br />"Environmental Law" or "Environmental Laws" means any and all Federal, state, local or <br />municipal laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, guidelines, policies or <br />requirements of any governmental authority regulating or imposing standards of liability or <br />standards of conduct (including common law) concerning air, water, solid waste, hazardous <br />materials, worker and community right-to-know; hazard communication, noise, radioactive <br />material, resource protection, subdivision, inland wetlands and watercourses, health protection <br />and similar environmental health, safety, building and land use as may now or at any time <br />hereafter be in effect. <br />"Hazardous Materials" means any petroleum, petroleum products, fuel ail, waste oils, <br />explosives, reactive materials, ignitable materials, corrosive materials, hazardous chemicals, <br />hazardous wastes, hazardous substances, extremely hazardous substances, toxic substances, toxic <br />chemicals, radioactive materials, infectious materials and any other element, compound, mixture, <br />solution or substance which may pose a present or potential hazard to human health or the <br />environment. <br />Grantor warrants that it is in compliance with, and shall remain in compliance with, all <br />applicable Environmental Laws. Grantor warrants that there are no notices by any governmental <br />authority of any violation or alleged violation of, non-compliance or alleged non-compliance <br />with or any liability under any Environmental Law relating to the operations or conditions of the <br />Property.. <br />Grantor warrants that he has no actual knowledge of a release or threatened release of any <br />Hazardous Materials on, at, beneath or from the Property exceeding regulatory limits. Moreover, <br />Grantors hereby promise to indemnify and hold harmless the Grantee and United States against <br />all costs, claims, demands, penalties and damages, including reasonable attorney fees, arising <br />from or connected with the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials on, at, <br />