“Environmental Law” means any Legal Requirement in effect as of the Closing Date that requires # advising appropriate authorities, employees, and the public of intended or actual releases of Hazardous Substances, violations of discharge limits, or other prohibitions and of the commencements of activities, such as resource extraction or construction, that could have significant impact on the environment or result in an Environmental Claim; # preventing or reducing to acceptable levels the release of Hazardous Substances into the environment; # the cleaning up of Hazardous Substances that have been released, preventing the threat of release, or paying the costs of such cleanup; # the treatment, storage, disposal, generation and transportation of industrial, toxic or Hazardous Substances; # the prevention of any release or threat of release into the environment of Hazardous Substances; # the closure or removal of underground and other storage tanks or vessels, abandoned, disposed or discarded barrels, containers and other closed receptacles; # any procedures relating to the manufacture, processing, use, distribution, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation or handling of Hazardous Substances; and # the regulation by any federal, state or local governing entity of any matter, the violation of which could result in an Environmental Claim being asserted.

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