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w • Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.A-7 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project • PFS-5.2 Recycling Programs The City shall continue to require recycling in public and . private operations to reduce demand for solid waste disposal capacity. S PFS-5.5 Recycling of Hazardous Materials-The City shall require the proper disposal and recycling of hazardous materials. PFS-5.6 Recycling of Construction Materials-The City shall require the recycling of construction debris. • Zoning Classification The San Joaquin County Zoning Map designates the existing landfill site (including the creek corridors) and the proposed 2018 Expansion Project areas as AG-40, General Agriculture, 40- acre minimum. Uses permitted in AG zones include agricultural and certain residential, • agricultural commercial, agricultural processing, communication, educational, utility, religious, recreation, and Major Impact Services uses. In the AG-40 zone, the minimum size for new parcels is 40.0 acres. The San Joaquin County Development Title specifies that the Major Impact Services use classification is a permitted use in AG-40 zone,subject to an approved Use Permit • application. Major Impact Services use types include sanitary landfills, which are defined as • land intensive activities that must be located away from residences or concentrations of people due to the nature of the operation's impacts. The existing Forward Landfill is classified under the Major Impact Services use type and currently permitted under San Joaquin County Land Use Permit No. UP-00-7, granted by the Board of Supervisors in April 2003. Bird Strikes and Gull Survey Evaluations The 2013 EIR discussed information on bird strikes available at that time. The following • paragraph updates that discussion with new information available at the time this SEIR was prepared (Davis, 2017, see Appendix C for a copy of this report). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)began tracking bird/aircraft collisions at the Stockton Airport (SCK) in 1990. • The FAA database documenting bird/aircraft collisions contained records of 62 bird and • mammal strikes associated with the Stockton Airport, as of April 30, 2016 (Davis, 2017). One of the 62 reported strikes involved a black-tailed jackrabbit. Of the 61 strike reports from Stockton Airport that involved birds, one involved a gull(carcass only) and four others might have . involved gulls. Even allowing for significant under-reporting of bird strikes, five strikes at SCK in over 27 years with no damage reported indicates that the Forward Landfill has not posed a • significant threat to aircraft using the Stockton Metropolitan Airport. Thirty-eight of the reported bird strikes at SCK occurred since the gull control program was instituted at Forward Landfill in the winter of 2010-2011. These strikes involved Barn Owls (4), a Burrowing Owl, a White-tailed Kite, Red-tailed Hawks (3),Swainson's Hawks (4), a Turkey Vulture, an American • Kestrel, Horned Larks (4, Western Meadowlarks (3), Killdeers (2), an American Pipit, a Rock Pigeon, a European Starling, unidentified small birds (4), and two unidentified birds. No gulls were involved and none of the birds struck were attracted to the area by the landfill. t The project applicant has a program to survey gull populations in the vicinity of the landfill.