Protections to liable party,
U.S. EPA, state and ERRT

• USEPA/state CNTS

• USEPA/state/ERRT/liable party consent order/consent decree 

• ERRT grants waiver and release to liable party (except for misrepresentations or fraud) 

• Known and unknown, pre-existing contamination and on-site and off-site covered

• Agency oversight of ERRT 

• Environmental restrictive covenants (for the remedy) 

• Institutional controls monitoring 

• Environmental easement for access and a waiver and release to liable party from 
  subsequent buyers and tenants in downstream transfers 

• ERRT’s financial controls, conservative investment policy and independent audits