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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page II-1 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project II. SUMMARY A. PURPOSE OF THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EIR This supplement to the Forward Landfill Expansion Project Final Environmental Impact Report' (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(SEIR)is intended to inform County decision-makers, other responsible and trustee agencies, and the general public of the proposed 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 SEIR 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 substantially 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, as detailed in Section I.C. The proposed project would require a new Use Permit from the County. Therefore,the County of San Joaquin,Department of Community Development,is the CEQA Lead Agency for this project. In addition,the Forward Landfill is currently operating under existing County Environmental Health Department,Regional Water Quality Control Board, and California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) permits. Those permits would require revisions, or new permits would need to be obtained by Forward, to permit the proposed expansion. This SEIR may be used by those CEQA Responsible Agencies in their permit approval actions. B. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The 2013 Forward Landfill Expansion EIR analyzed an expansion of the landfill that included 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 1 San Joaquin County,Forward Landfill Expansion Project Final Environmental Impact Report,May 2013, accessible at http://www.sjgov.org/Commdev/cgi-bin/cdyn.exe/handouts-planning/CompleteFEIR5- 242013.pdO