On January 17, 2002, the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, entered a consent decree in the matter of United States v. The Santos/Alviso Partnership, L.P., et al., case no. CV-11-4139, regarding the South Bay Asbestos Superfund Site in San Jose, California. The decree required institutional controls for the Santos Landfill portion of the Superfund Site, at which asbestos contaminated waste has been buried underground. The institutional controls consist of putting in place deed restrictions and operation and maintenance requirements to ensure that a soil cover (at least two feet thick in depth) remains intact and is inspected and maintained by the present and future owners of the subject property. The defendants in the case recorded the deed restriction on September 14, 2011. The settlement did not involve the recovery of response costs of the United States. The value of the restrictions placed on the property in question are estimated to be $0.