D.C. Code § 8-671.11: Registry; substitute notice.

(a)

The Environmental Health Administration shall establish and maintain a registry that contains all environmental covenants and any amendment or termination of those covenants. The registry may also contain any other information concerning environmental covenants and the real property subject to them which the Environmental Health Administration considers appropriate. The registry is a public record for purposes of § 1-207.42.

(b)

After an environmental covenant or an amendment or termination of a covenant is filed in the registry established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, a notice of the covenant, amendment, or termination that complies with this section may be recorded in the land records in lieu of recording the entire covenant. Any such notice must contain:

(1)

A legally sufficient description and any available street address of the real property subject to the covenant;

(2)

The name and address of the owner of the fee simple interest in the real property, the environmental agency, and the holder if other than the environmental agency;

(3)

A statement that the covenant, amendment, or termination is available in a registry at the Environmental Health Administration, which discloses the method of any electronic access; and

(4)

A statement that the notice is notification of an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this chapter.

(c)

“7. The full text of the covenant, amendment, or termination and any other information required by the environmental agency is on file and available for inspection and copying in the registry maintained for that purpose by the Environmental Health Administration at [insert address and room of building in which the registry is maintained]. The covenant, amendment or termination may be found electronically at [insert web address for covenant].”