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To: Ron Walker Wiggins & Associates FAX 1 209 477 4607 FROM: Neville H Price Weber Center Inc FAX 415 435 3657 SUBJECT: Weber Center Project Contaminated Soils and Ground Water Clearance DATE: August 15, 1991 Dear Ron: Further to your ongoing discussions with the County on behalf of Weber Enterprises Inc, as offered, please arrange for a meeting with the County, Mrs Weber's consulting engineers and other representatives, Lyn Krieger Deputy Manager the City of Stockton, and Weber Center Inc, to ascertain the timing and requirements of the County to verify that the site meets the conditions to enable them to certify that it is no longer a "contaminated site". You asked that we provide the county with specific questions. The answers we need relate directly to the requirements and timing of certification of a legally clean site, for the following reasons: We are anxious to take title to the property as soon as possible, however only when we are able to obtain a building permit to enable construction to commence. Prior to that we must finalize our construction and development financing, which is contingent on obtaining certification that the site meets the legal requirements that it is no longer a contaminated site. While it is Weber Enterprises responsibility to produce a "clean site" (to raise the value to our purchase price) , the timing is critical to us if we are to consummate a lease with BankAmerica as the prime tenant in the new building, and take advantage of the other interested tenants your office has waiting. As you are aware our financiers have also Committed to a larger investment in downtown Stockton, but only after the successful launching of this project. There has been recent law and subsequent litigation where the title holder or lien holder (lender) can be held responsible for contaminated soil and/or ground water clean-up costs, regardless of the party who caused the contamination, and the ownership at that time.