located on the Real Property or, to Seller’s knowledge, were located on the Real Property and were subsequently removed or filled; and (v) no investigation, administrative order, consent order or agreement, litigation, or settlement with respect to Hazardous Substances is proposed, threatened, anticipated or in existence with respect to the Premises. Seller has not received any notice, citation, summons, directive, order or other communication, written or oral, from, and Seller has no knowledge of the filing or giving of any such notice, citation, summons, directive, order or other communication by, any governmental or quasi-governmental authority or agency or any other person or party concerning the presence, generation, treatment, storage, transportation, transfer, disposal, release, or other handling of any hazardous substance within, on, from, related to, or affecting the Real Property. For purposes hereof, “Environmental Laws” shall mean all statutes, laws, ordinances, codes, regulations, rules, rulings, orders, decrees, directives, policies and requirements by any federal, state or local governmental authority regulating, relating to, or imposing liability or standards of conduct on or concerning Hazardous Substances (as defined below), public health and safety or the environment now or existing or hereafter enacted or effective; and “Hazardous Materials” shall mean all hazardous waste, hazardous substances, hazardous constituents, hazardous materials, toxic substances, or related substances or materials, whether solids, liquids or gases including, but not limited to, polychlorinated biphenyl (commonly known as PCBs), per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, asbestos, radon, urea formaldehyde, petroleum products (including gasoline and diesel oil), toxic substances, hazardous chemicals, spent solvents, sludge, ash, containers with hazardous waste residue, spent solutions from manufacturing processes, pesticides, explosives, organic chemicals, inorganic pigments and other similar substances, as each of the foregoing terms are defined under, or regulated or governed by, any and all Environmental Laws including, but not limited to, (i) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. S 9601 et seq., (ii) the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, 49 U.S.C. S 1801 et seq., (iii) the Resource, Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, 42 U.S.C. S 6901 et seq., (iv) the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. S 1251 et seq., (v) the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, as amended, 15 U.S.C. S 2601 et seq., (vi) the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. S 7401 et seq., or (vii) any so-called “superfund” or “superlien” law;
(xiv) other than that certain a tax proceeding pending for an increase of the assessed real estate tax valuation of the Real Property for 2021 (Case No. 2021-06759) (the “Tax Contest”), there is no tax proceeding pending for the reduction or increase of the assessed real estate tax valuation of the Premises or any portion thereof;
(xv) Seller has no, and has never had any, employees;
(xvi) Seller is not an “employee benefit plan”, as defined in Section 3(3) of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), or a “plan”, as defined in Section 4975(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and the assets of Seller are not deemed to be “plan assets” of one or more such plans for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. In addition, Seller is not a “governmental plan” within the meaning of Section 3(32) of ERISA, and no transaction by or with Seller is subject to or in violation of any state statutes applicable to regulation of investments of and fiduciary obligations with respect to governmental plans;
(xvii)
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