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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page I-1 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project ' I. INTRODUCTION A. PURPOSE OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL EIR This supplement to the Forward Landfill Expansion Project Final Environmental Impact Re- port' (2013 EIR or FEIR), certified by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors on August 21, 2013, addresses the potential environmental impacts of proposed changes to the 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 pro- posed 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 "the Project" in this document refer to the Project as modified by the proposed changes discussed in this document. This Supplemental EIR has been prepared because the currently proposed Project ("2018 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 sub- stantially 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, 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. This section of the CEQA Guidelines is discussed in more detail below. B. PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO THE 2013 FORWARD LANDFILL FEIR EXPANSION PROJECT The 2013 Forward Landfill Expansion EIR analyzed an expansion of the landfill that in- cluded the following substantial modifications to the landfill: • Expand the Forward Landfill to contiguous parcels including an approximately 184- acre parcel ("Brocchini parcel") to the southwest of the existing landfill site and an approximately 10-acre parcel in the northeast of the existing landfill. In addition, ap- proximately 11 acres of currently permitted landfill disposal area in the southern por- tion of the Forward Landfill would be relocated within the currently permitted land- fill 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). San Joaquin County,Forward Landfill Expansion Project Final Environmental Impact Report,May 2013,accessible at http://www.sjgov.org/Cor=dev/cgi-bin/cdyn.exe/handouts-planning/CompleteFEIR5-242013.pdP