PHASE I ESA

Environmental Site Assessment

PURPOSE•PRODVIDE PROFESSIONAL

OPINION ON THE POTENTIAL FOR CURRENT PRESEMCE PF (REC’S) AT THE SUBJECT PROPERTY

DETAILED SCOPE-OF SERVICE

•Conduct regulatory database search

•Review geological maps•Research subject property

history•Conduct interviews•Contact local regulatory

agencies

SIGNIFICANT ASSUMPTION

•NONE

LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS

•NOT CONSIDERED PART OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, AND WAS NOT ASSESSED NY URS.

SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• NONE

USER RELIANCE

•PREPARED FOR USE SOLELY BY COHC

LOCATION AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION

•302 EAST 14TH STREET

SUBJECT PROPERTY AND VCINIRY

CHARACTERISTICS•VACANT AT THE TIME•ADJACENT PROPERITES •INCLUDED RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

•SIDEWALKS, NOT FENCED PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC

PHYSICAL SETTINGS

•UNDERLAIN BY THE URBAN LAND- MARKHAM ASHKUM COMPLEX

DESCRIPTIONS OF STRUCTURES, ROADS,

AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

•VACANTAND GRASSES WITH EXCEPTIONS OF PAVED SIDEWALKS NORTH, EAST AND WEST

•ALLEY RAN TGEOUGH E.14TH STREET TO S. ADJACENT UNNAMED ALLEY

CURRENT ADJOINING PROPERTY USES

• N- BORDED TO THE N BY EAST 14TH ST AND AN APARTMENT BUILDING 285 EASTR 14TH AV

• E- BOARDED EAST BY ARNOLD ST FOLLOWED BY A COMMERCIAL BUILDING 350 E. 14TH ST

• S- BOARDED TO S. BY UNNAMED ALLEY FOLOWED BY VACANT LAND

• W- BOARDED W. BY MT. SINUIAPOSTOLLIC CHURCH AT 284 E. 14TH STREET

TITLE RECORDS• URS NOT PROVIDED WITH THE

TITLE INSURANCE REPORTS FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTY

ENVIRONMENTAL LIENTAL LIENS USE

LIMITATIONS• NONE

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

• NONE

OWNER, SITE MANAGER, AND OCCUPANT INFORMATION

• OWNED BY COHC

REASON FOR CONDUCTING PHASE I ESA

•COCH INDICATED THIS PHASE IESA WAS REQUESTED IN CONNECTION WITH POTENTIAL FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY

OTHER INFORMATION

• PROPERTY ABANDONED AFTER 1990 AND HAD POTENTIAL FOR DUMPING OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. URS DIDN’T OBSERVE EVIDENCE OF IMPROPER STORAGE OR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS DURING VISIT IT IS NOT CONSIDERED A (REC) TO THE SUBJECT PROPERTY

STANDARD ENVIRONMENTAL

RECORDS• HOBART CORPORATION AT

EAST 14th STREET AND ARONLOD STREET LOCATED NORTHEAST ADJACENT TO SUBJECT PROPERTY. IDENTIFIELD IN RCRA SMALL QUENTITY GENERATOR SQG DATABASE WITH NO VIOLATIONS REPORTED

ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL

RECORDS• COCH-REQUEST NO RECOREDS

RELATING TO UST’S URS- REQUESTED TO REVIEW BUILDING PERMITS NO RESPONSE IEPA, BOL-NO INFORMATION IN THE BOLS RECOREDS FOR SUBJECT PROPERTY

HISTORICAL USE•A BANK AND A SALOON

WERE LOCATED 304 EAST 14TH ST PROPERTY USES INCLUDED RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL OCCUPANTS

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

• COCH- REQUESTED NO RECORDS RELATING TO UST’S

• URS-REQUESTED TO REVIEW BUILDING PERMITS/NO RESPONSE

• ILLINOIS OSFM-URS SUBMITTED A FOIA REQUESTED/NO RESPONSE

• IERA, BOL

TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS

• IMPROVED WITH THREE RECTANGULAR SHAPED STRUCTURES. ROAD DEPLICED WEST OF PARCEL B. SMALL SQUARE STRUCTURE LOCATED NORTH WEST OF PARCEL B. SEVERAL SMALL SQUARE STRUCTURE AND ONE LARGE RECTANGULAR STRUCTURE WERE DEPICTED SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST OF PARCEL B RESPECTIVELY

SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS• VACANT WITH EXCEPION OF A

STORE/DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SHED AT 298 EAST 14TH AVE. BOARDERED NORH BY EAST 14TH ST FOLLOWED BY FARTHER NORTH BY VACANT PROPERTY. BOARDERED EAST BY 5TH AVE FOLLOWED BY PARCEL C

CITY DIRECTORIES• INFORMATON INCLUDED A REVIEW

OF HISTORICAL CITY DIRECTORIES FROM 1991-2006 DUE TO LIMITATIONS OF EDR SEARCH PROCESS THE CITY DIRECTORY WAS ONLY CONDUCTED FOR 284 EAST 14TH STREET

METHODOLOGY AND LIMITING CONDITIONS

• URA CONDUCTED THE SITE RECONNAISSANCE BY VISUALLY OBSERVING THE SUBJECT PROPERTY THE PROPERTIES SURROUNDING THE SUBJECT PROPERTY WERE OBSERVED BY WALKING OR BY DRIVING FROM ADJACENT PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES

INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR OBSERVATIONS

•VACANT AND GRASSED LIMITED SNOW COVERED PORTIONS SIDEWALKS,MOUNDS OF GARBAGE

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AND PETROLEUM

PRODUCTS•NONE

UNDERGROUND/ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANKS

•NO EVIDENCE FOUND

PCB-CONTAINING AND YDRAULIC EQUIPMENT

• FIVE POLE-MOUNTED TRANFORMERS WERE OBSERVERED A THE SUBJECT PROPERTY

• TWO OF THE POLE-MOUNTED TRANSFORMERS WERE LOCATED ON HE WESTERN PORTION OF PARCEL C

• THREE OF THE POLE-MOUNTED TRANSFORMERS WERE LOCATED AT THE PROPERTY BETWEEN PARCEL D

• TWO OF THE TREE POLE-MOUNTED TRANSFORMERS WERE LOCATED ON THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF PARCEL D AND A SINGLE POLE-MOUNTED TRANSFORMER WAS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWEST PORTION ON PARCEL D

SOLID AND HAZARDOUS

WASTES• CURRENTLY VACANT, NO SOLID WASTE. SCATTERED DEBRIS WAS OBSERVED

DRAINS ANS SUMPS

• NO DRAINS OR SUMPS

WASTE WATER•NO PROCESS OR SANITARY

WASTE WATER GENERATED ON THE SITE.

UTILITIES•PROPERTY VACENT NO

UTILITIES

WELLS•NONE

PITS,POUDS,LAGOONS

•NONE

OTHER PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF

CONTAMINATION•NONE

CONCLUSIONS• URS IDENTIFIED NO SIGNIFICANT

DATS GAPS IN REASONABLE ASCERTAINABLE INFORMATION REVIEWED AND DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT REGUARDING THE SUBJECT PROPERTY WITH THE EXCEPION THAT RESPONSES TO URS’ FOIA REQUESTS HAVE NOT BEEN RECEIVED

• NO HREC’S OR OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WERE IDENTIFIED

ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED

•STACY McCANCE PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST

•SARAH RUBEN PROJECT GEOLOGIST