Fact Pattern 18-2 Eldercare Hospital Has Acquired Twenty Acres of Land in South

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Fact Pattern 18-2
Eldercare Hospital has acquired twenty acres of land in south Dallas, the poor side of the city, to build a facility that will provide care primarily for the elderly residents of that part of the city. The land had been used for various industrial purposes, including an oil transfer station, but had been abandoned for over thirty years. Dallas is a city that is always on the margin of violating the air quality standards that apply to it.
-Refer to Fact Pattern 18-2. The land, which Eldercare got cheap, could turn out to be expensive to prepare for construction because it is likely to be what is known as:

• A) a depository.
• B) a habitat.
• C) a brownfield.
• D) a nonpoint source.
• E) a sludge.

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