been recorded pursuant to any Environmental Law with respect to any assets, facility or property owned, operated or leased by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries; and (vi) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no past or present actions, activities, conditions or occurrences, including, without limitation, the Release or threatened Release of any Material of Environmental Concern, that could reasonably be expected to result in a violation of or liability under any Environmental Law on the part of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, any such liability which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries has retained or assumed either contractually or by operation of law.
For purposes of this Agreement, “Environment” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, soil, surface and subsurface strata, and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna. “Environmental Laws” means the common law and all federal, state, local and foreign laws or regulations, ordinances, codes, orders, decrees, judgments and injunctions issued, promulgated or entered thereunder, relating to pollution or protection of the Environment or human health, including without limitation, those relating to (i) the Release or threatened Release of Materials of Environmental Concern and (ii) the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, generation, treatment, storage, transport, handling or recycling of Materials of Environmental Concern. “Materials of Environmental Concern” means any substance, material, pollutant, contaminant, chemical, waste, compound, or constituent, in any form, including without limitation, petroleum and petroleum products, subject to regulation or which can give rise to liability under any Environmental Law. “Release” means any release, spill, emission, discharge, deposit, disposal, leaking, pumping, pouring, dumping, emptying, injection or leaching into the Environment, or into, from or through any building, structure or facility.
(cc) ERISA Compliance. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change and except as set forth in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus: (i) the Company and its subsidiaries and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (as amended, “ERISA,” which term, as used herein, includes the regulations and published interpretations thereunder)) established or maintained by the Company or its subsidiaries are in compliance with ERISA; (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, each “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 4001 or 3(37) of ERISA) to which the Company, its subsidiaries or an ERISA Affiliate contributes (a “Multiemployer Plan”) is in compliance with ERISA; (iii) no “reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred during the six years immediately prior to the date hereof, or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or its subsidiaries; (iv) no “single employer plan” (as defined in Section 4001 or 3(35) of ERISA) established or maintained by the Company or its subsidiaries, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA); (v) neither the Company, its subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has incurred or
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