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✓r. Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page I-1 Forward Inc. Landfill 2014 Expansion Project L I. INTRODUCTION L A. PURPOSE OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL EIR V This supplement to the Forward Landfill Expansion Project Final Environmental Impact Report' (2013 EIR), certified by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on August 21, 2013, ad- dresses the potential environmental impacts of proposed changes to the Forward Landfill Expan- L sion Project,located on Austin Road in unincorporated San Joaquin County south of the City of Stockton.This Supplemental EIR is intended to inform County decision-makers, other responsi- ble and trustee agencies, and the general public of the proposed changes to the Project and their b, potential environmental consequences. San Joaquin County is the Lead Agency for the environ- mental review of the proposed Project. Unless otherwise noted,references to "the Project"in this document refer to the Project as modified by the proposed changes discussed in this docu- ment. This Supplemental EIR has been prepared because the currently proposed Project ("2014 Expan- sion Project' includes a number of substantive changes to the Expansion Project as described in 6' the 2013 EIR,and these changes may have the potential to result in new or substantially different significant environmental effects beyond those identified in the previous EIR. The key purpose of this review is to determine whether the environmental effects of the Project as currently pro- 6n posed would result in new, significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the sever- ity of previously identified environmental effects pursuant to Section 15163 of the California L Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines.This section of the CEQA Guidelines is dis- cussed in more detail below. B. PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO THE 2012 FORWARD LANDFILL EXPANSION PROJECT In 2012, Forward proposed an expansion of the landfill, which entailed the following substantial L modifications to the landfill: • Expand the Forward Landfill to contiguous parcels including an approximately 184-acre 60 parcel (`Brocchini parcel") to the southwest of the existing landfill site and an approxi- mately 10-acre parcel in the northeast of the existing landfill. In addition,approximately 11 acres of currently permitted landfill disposal area in the southern portion of the For- ward Landfill would be relocated within the currently permitted landfill boundary due to realignment of the South Fork of South Littlejohns Creek (also known as the South Branch of the South Fork of Littlejohns Creek). 6w ism San Joaquin County,Forward Landfill Expansion Project Final Environmental Impact Report,May 2013,accessible at http://www.sigov.org/Commdev/cgi-bin/cdyn.exe/handouts-planning/CompletcFEIR5-242013.pdR