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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.D-13 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Revised Project The San Joaquin County 2035 General Plan identified the following policy related to GHG emissions and landfills: PHS-6.5:Diversion,Recycling, and Reuse.The County shall achieve a 75 percent diversion of landfilled waste based on 1990 levels by 2020, and shall achieve a diversion rate of 90 percent by 2035. The San Joaquin County 2035 General Plan Final EIR included the following mitigation measure related to landfills: IS-1.18: Landfill Capacity.The County shall analyze remaining landfill capacity and continue to implement solid waste diversion programs in order to increase the rate of diversion across all communities and increase the usable life of existing landfill disposal facilities. SJVAPCD Climate Change Action Plan Recognizing the amount of regulatory guidance, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's Governing Board adopted the Climate Change Action Plan(CLAP)in August 2008. The CCAP directed the District's Air Pollution Control Officer to develop guidance to assist District staff,Valley businesses, land—use agencies, and other permitting agencies in addressing GHG emissions as part of the CEQA process. Regarding CEQA GHG guidance,the goals of the CCAP are to establish District processes for assessing the significance of project specific GHG impacts for projects permitted by the District;assist local land-use agencies, developers, and the public by identifying and quantifying GHG emission reduction measures for development projects and by providing tools to streamline evaluation of project specific GHG effects;ensure that collateral emissions from GHG emission reduction projects do not adversely impact public health or environmental justice communities in the Valley;and assist Valley businesses in complying with state law related to GHG emission reduction. On November 5,2009,the SJVAPCD issued a final staff report entitled Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act. The report indicated that it is readily understood that global climatic change is the result of the sum total of GHG emissions,both man-made and natural that occurred in the past;that is occurring now;and will occur in the future.The effects of project-specific GHG emissions are cumulative, and without mitigation,their incremental contribution to global climatic change could be considered significant.District staff concluded that this cumulative impact is best addressed by requiring all projects subject to CEQA to reduce their GHG emissions through project design elements. On December 17, 2009, the SJVAPCD adopted the Guidance for Valley Land-use Agencies in Addressing GHG Emission Impacts for New Projects under CEQA and the policy entitled Addressing GHG Emission Impacts for Stationary Source Projects under CEQA when Serving as the Lead Agency. The guidance and policy rely on the use of statewide, regional, or local plans for reduction or mitigation of GHG emissions,or performance-based standards,otherwise known as Best Performance Standards (BPS),to assess significance of project specific GHG emission on global climate change. The District staff approach is intended to streamline the process of determining if project specific GHG emissions would have a significant effect. Projects are considered to have a less than significant GHG impact if they comply with statewide,regional, or local plans for reduction or mitigation of GHG emissions. If they do not comply with such a plan,the