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i Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page II-1 Forward Inc. Landfill 2014 Expansion Project II. SUMMARY ` A. PURPOSE OF THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EIR 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 i 21,2013, addresses the potential environmental impacts of proposed changes to the �k Forward Landfill Expansion 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 responsible and trustee agencies, and the general public of the proposed changes to the Project and their potential environmental consequences. San Joaquin County is the Lead Agency for the environmental review of the proposed Project. Unless otherwise noted, references to Im "the Project" in this document refer to the Project as modified by the proposed changes discussed in this document. I This Supplemental EIR has been prepared because the currently proposed Project("2014 Expansion Project") includes a number of substantive changes to the expansion Project as described in 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 proposed would result in new, t significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously ;. identified environmental effects pursuant to Section 15163 of the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) Guidelines, as detailed in Section I.C.- The proposed project would require a new Use Permit from the County. Therefore, the County of San Joaquin,Department of Community Development,is the CEQA Lead Agency for this project. In addition the Forward Landfill is currently operating under existing County Environmental Health Department, Regional Water Quality Control 60 Board, and California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) permits. Those permits would require revisions, or new permits would need to be obtained by Forward, to permit the proposed expansion. This EIR may be used by those 480 CEQA Responsible Agencies in their permit approval actions. B. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The existing Forward,Inc. Landfill is an approximately 567-acre facility comprised of the former Forward, Inc. 157-acre Class II landfill and the former 410-acre Class III City of Stockton Austin Road Sanitary Landfill. These two landfills were combined into the ►. current Forward Inc. facility in 2002;the combination of these landfills into a single Class II facility, filling in of a wedge of airspace between them, allowing lower base grades, and expanding the hours of operation were assessed in the 2000 Consolidated Forward Landfill Environmental Impact Report(San Joaquin County 2002). In 2012,Forward proposed an expansion of the landfill,which entailed the following L substantial modifications to the landfill: San Joaquin County,Forward Landfill Expansion Project Final Environmental Impact Report,May 2013, accessible at http://www.sjgov.org/Commdev/cgi-bin/cdyn.exe/handouts-planning/CompleteFEIR5- 242013.pdf? k L t M