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• • Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.D-16 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Revised Project • • Consistent with CEQA Guidelines Appendix G,the SJVAPCD has established thresholds of • significance that may be relied upon in assessing construction impacts, project operations and cumulative impacts. • • The SJVAPCD's GAMAQI includes significance criteria for evaluating construction emissions, • operational-phase emissions from permitted equipment and activities, and operational-phase emissions from non-permitted equipment and activities. Construction emissions, operational- phase emissions from permitted equipment and activities, and operational-phase emissions • from non-permitted equipment and activities are evaluated separately and compared to the • significance criteria. Non-permitted equipment and activities include on-road mobile sources • and off-road equipment and do not include permitted equipment/activities (stationary sources) covered under permit with the SJVAPCD. For this analysis, the project would be considered to • have a significant effect on the environment if it would exceed the following thresholds: • • Cause a net increase in pollutant emissions of reactive organic gases (ROG) or NO, • exceeding 10 tons per year. • • Cause a net increase in pollutant emissions of PM,o or PM2.5 exceeding 15 tons per year. • Cause a net increase in pollutant emissions of SO,exceeding 27 tons per year. • • Cause a net increase in pollutant emissions of CO exceeding 100 tons per year. • Cumulative Impacts According to the SJVAPCD GAMAQI, a cumulative impact occurs when two or more individual effects, considered together, are considerable or would compound or increase other environmental impacts. Cumulative impacts can result from individually minor but collectively • significant impacts,meaning that the project's incremental effects are considerable when • viewed in connection with the effects of past, current, and probable future projects. Notably, any project that would individually have a significant air quality impact would also be • considered to have a significant cumulative air quality impact. According to the SJVAPCD • GAMAQI, cumulative impacts should be assessed for ozone, PMlo, CO and TAC. Greenhouse Gases • The project would be considered to have a significant impact if the project would be in conflict • with State plans, policies and regulations adopted for the purpose of reducing GHG emissions, • such as AB 32, with the assumption that State plans, policies, and regulations, such as AB 32, will be successful in reducing GHG emissions and reducing the cumulative GHG emissions • statewide by 2020 and beyond. It is important that the State has taken these measures,because no project individually could have a major impact(either positively or negatively) on the global • concentration of GHG. • Impacts and Mitigation Measures w • This impact section evaluates the activities described in the Project Description that could • potentially result in impacts to air quality, odors, and climate change based on the conditions of the project area. The project would add 8.1 million cubic yards of landfill capacity versus the 32 • • • •