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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page VIII-91 Forward Inc.Landfill 2018 Expansion Project 2. The revised project only adds 15.0 percent of the increased landfill disposal capacity of the prior project; 3. The revised project involves a similar alignment(3,000 feet in the current project versus 3,000 feet in the former project)of the South Fork of South Littlejohns Creek. Therefore, the revised project is substantially smaller in all important respects than the ' former project analyzed in the EIR certified by the Board of Supervisors. Based on this comparison, as well as the impact analyses in this Supplemental EIR, the revised project will not result in changes in the former project that will result in new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. Further,no changed circumstances have occurred that would require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the occurrence of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. The document is organized in a manner such there is no need for the reader to go back and review the FEIR for the major impact topics. Each of the sections in this SEIR are independent of,and supersede their predecessors in the FEIR. Similarly, the topics not addressed in detail in this SEIR are fully addressed in the FEIR. Both documents have been made available for ready review by the County. In addition,the County provided an extended 58-day review period rather than the statutorily required a 45-day period. The EIR for the former project is available on the County of San Joaquin website at: http://www.sjgov.org/commdev/cgi-bin/cdyn.exe?grp=planning&htm=default. In addition, for ease of reference and implementation, the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program in this Final SEIR includes all applicable mitigation measures, including those carried over from the FEIR. Therefore, this Supplemental EIR concludes that a Subsequent EIR is not required for this revised and much smaller"in fill" landfill expansion project, and that a Supplemental EIR is authorized pursuant to the CEQA Guideline s cited in this comment. L-3. Comment noted. Specific concerns with the Project Description identified by the comment are addressed below. L-4. The comment claims that the project objectives are impermissibly narrow and exclude consideration of alternate sites for the project. The Alternatives discussion on p. V-3 of the DSEIR explains in detail why an out-of-county landfill and other off-site landfills were not further considered in this document. This is not a function of the Project Objectives,but rather of the fact that constructing an entirely new landfill would have far greater potential impacts to the physical environment than the proposed expansion of the existing landfill. The project objectives, described on pp.111-7 and III-11 of the DSEIR do not exclude an off-site alternative. In fact, the 2013 FEIR(pp. V-7 through V-10) considers expansion of the French Camp,Foothill, and North County