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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page VIII-90 Forward Inc.Landfill 2018 Expansion Project While some mitigation measures have changed, the severity of most of the impacts addressed in this document have been reduced or not materially changed from the FEIR, which addressed a larger project. The commenter has not provided a reference to any significant new or significantly increased impacts that would be caused by the revised project compared with the project analyzed in the prior certified EIR,or any new circumstances or mitigation measures that would substantially reduce any impacts analyzed in the prior EIR. All significant impacts described in the prior EIR will still be significant based on the analysis in this Supplemental EIR. The current document includes updated discussions of all items that may have ' substantially changed,while referencing and explaining why the remaining topics have not changed since the issuance of the FEIR. There is no new information of substantial importance regarding new or significantly increased environmental impacts of the ' revised project not analyzed in the prior EIR. Nor are there any new mitigation measures of significant impacts or alternatives identified in the prior EIR previously found not to be feasible that(a)are now feasible and (b)that would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment,but(c)the project proponent declines to adopt.The contents of this Supplemental EIR demonstrates that impacts analyzed for the prior project will either be the same or less severe and less significant than those impacts analyzed in the prior EIR.Further, the project proponent has accepted all mitigation measures for significant impacts of the revised project and that are recommended in this EIR. The commenter does not provide information that any of the grounds described above, that require preparation of a Subsequent EIR,have occurred. In addition,per CEQA Guideline§15163,the lead agency may choose to prepare a supplement to an EIR rather than a subsequent EIR if: (1) Any of the conditions described in Section 15162 would require the preparation of a subsequent EIR, and (2)Only minor additions or changes would be necessary to make the previous EIR adequately apply to the project in the changed situation. The prior EIR certified by the County Board of Supervisors was for a 184-acre expansion of the Forward landfill on an undisturbed parcel adjacent to the existing Forward landfill, which would have added 54 million cubic yards of additional disposal capacity to the landfill. The revised project that is the subject of this Supplemental EIR is for only a 17.3 acres acre expansion located within the existing disturbed area of the landfill that will add only 8.1 million cubic yards of disposal capacity.Therefore,in all respects the revised landfill expansion project is a smaller alternative project that will have less severe environmental impacts that the original 184-acre expansion. Specifically, 1. The revised project involves only 9.4 percent of the total acreage of the prior project;