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innocent landowner defense - the defense to CERCLA liability provided in 42 USC § 9601 (35) and § 9607 (b)(3). One of the requirements to qualify for this defense is that the party make "all appropriate inquiry into the previous ownership and uses of the property consistent with good commercial or customary practice." There area additional requirements to qualify for this defense. See Appendix X1. interviews - those portions of this practice that are contained in Section 9 and 10 thereof and address questions to be asked of owners and occupants of the property and questions to be asked of local governments officials. key site manager-the person identified by the owner of a property as having good knowledge of the uses and physical characteristics of the property. local government agencies - those agencies of municipal or county government having jurisdiction over the property. Municipal and county government agencies included but are not limited to cities, parishes, townships, and similar entities. LUST sites-state lists of leaking underground storage tank sites. Section 9003(h) of Subtitle I of RCRA gives EPA and states,under cooperative agreements with EPA, authority to clean up releases from UST systems or require owners and operators to do so. major occupants-those tenants, subtenants, or other persons or entities each of which uses at least 40% of the leaseable area of the property or any anchor tenant when the property is a shopping center. obvious - that which is plain or evident; a condition or fact that could not be ignored or overlooked by a reasonable observed while visually or physically observing the property. other historical sources- any source or sources other than those designated in 7.3.4.1 through 7.3.4.8 that are credible to a reasonable person and that identify past uses of the property. The term includes, but is not limited to: miscellaneous maps, newspaper archives, and records in the files and/or personal knowledge of the property owner and/or occupants. See 7.3.4.9. physical setting sources- sources that provide information about the geologic, hydrogeologic, hydrologic, or topographic characteristics of a property. practically reviewable -information that is practically reviewable means that the information is provided by the source in a manner and in a form that, upon exaction, yields information relevant to the property without the need for extraordinary analysis of irrelevant data. The form of the information shall be such that the user can review the records for a limited geographic area. Records that cannot be feasibly retrieved by reference to the location of the property or a geographic area in which the property is located are not generally practically reviewable. Most databases of public records are practically reviewable if they can be obtained from the source agency by the county, city, zip code, or other geographic area of the B&V Project 62041.100 Appendix A NA62041\Phase-Ldoc(1/27/99) 8