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<br />applicable Environmental Laws that are introduced or placed on the Property, or caused
<br />to migrate off the property, because of the actions of the County. Save and except any
<br />liability resulting from remediation required pursuant to the Brownfields Agreement
<br />which shall solely rest with Main Street, neither Party shall be liable to the other for
<br />liabilities, losses, damages, costs or expenses resulting from the actions of third Parties
<br />after the date on which the County leases the Property
<br />"Hazardous Substances" shall mean: (a) those substances included within the definitions
<br />of any one or more of the terms "hazardous materials," "hazardous wastes," "hazardous
<br />substances," "industrial wastes," and "toxic pollutants," as such terms are defined under
<br />the Environmental Laws, or any of them; (b) petroleum and petroleum products,
<br />including, without limitation, crude oil and any fractions thereof, (c) natural gas,
<br />synthetic gas and any mixtures thereof, (d) asbestos and or any material which contains
<br />any hydrated mineral silicate, including, without limitation, chrysotile, amosite,
<br />crocidolite, tremolite, anthophylite and /or actinolite, whether friable or non - friable; (e)
<br />polychlorinated biphenyl ( "PCBs ") or PCB - containing materials or fluids; (f) radon; (g)
<br />any other hazardous or radioactive substance, material, pollutant, contaminant or waste;
<br />and (h) any other substance with respect to which any Environmental Law or
<br />governmental authority requires environmental investigation, monitoring or remediation.
<br />As used herein, the term "Environmental Laws" shall mean all federal, state and local
<br />laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations, now or hereafter in effect, in each case as
<br />amended or supplemented from time to time, including, without limitation, all applicable
<br />judicial or administrative orders, applicable consent decrees and binding judgments
<br />relating to the regulation and protection of human health, safety, the environment and
<br />natural resources (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface, water, groundwater,
<br />wetlands, land surface or subsurface strata, wildlife, aquatic species and vegetation),
<br />including, without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
<br />Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.), the
<br />Hazardous Material Transportation Act, as amended (49 U.S.C. §§ 5101 et seq.), the
<br />Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.),
<br />the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.), the
<br />Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.), the Clean Air Act,
<br />as amended (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
<br />amended (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq), the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended (42 U.S.C.
<br />§ 300f et seq.), any state or local counterpart or equivalent of any of the foregoing, and
<br />any federal, state or local transfer of ownership notification or approval statutes.
<br />"Release" shall mean any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
<br />discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing of any Hazardous
<br />Substances.
<br />G. The negotiation and completion of agreements and documents guiding the selection of
<br />designers and contractors, the timelines for the completion of various aspects of the
<br />design work, the methods and scheduling input, and other specific design and
<br />construction coordination necessary to ensure the successful completion of the Project.
<br />H. The negotiation and execution of ground leases (wherein the County's property interests
<br />in the Parking Deck and Branch Library will convert to condominium interests post -
<br />construction) under which the County as Lessee shall have the right to construct the
<br />improvements on the Property subject to the County's obligation to subject the Property
<br />and all improvements constructed thereon to a condominium declaration similar in
<br />structure and form to the "Declaration Of Condominium for 300 East Main Hotel /Retail
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