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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.A-28 Forward Inc.Landfill 2018 Expansion Project address changes in wildlife presence or behavior observed at the landfill. Significance After Mitigation: As discussed above, implementation of the procedures to discourage and monitor bird populations and comply with regulatory requirements related to bird hazards.Measures that are proposed as part of the project, along with Mitigation Measure A.4, would reduce bird hazard impacts to a less-than-significant level. Impact A.S: Night lighting at the proposed project could interfere with airport landing lights. (Same As 2013 EIR Impact A.S. Pilots landing at the Stockton Metropolitan Airport during darkness use airport runway lights to locate the runway environment. New sources of light near the runway lighting may be difficult to distinguish from airport lighting. Downward shielding of lighting at the landfill would reduce the visibility of landfill lighting to pilots. However, even with downward shielding, moisture in the air during foggy conditions can generate a dispersed glow that may create confusion for incoming pilots. The landfill uses portable lights for night operations, which are always directed to the west (toward the airport) to prevent confusion of incoming pilots. Outgoing pilots follow runway lights and are airborne by the time the aircraft are over the landfill; thus, the portable lights at the landfill would not confuse outgoing pilots. Use Permit aUP-00-0007, approved in April 2003 for Forward to combine the former Austin Road Sanitary Landfill and the Original Forward Landfill into a single Forward Landfill included a mitigation measure that stipulates that lighting for nighttime operations at the working face and other landfill facilities shall consist of sodium lamps with sharp cutoff angles and downward shielding, and to the extent feasible, shall be oriented in a direction that is not visible from off-site locations. This mitigation measure is included in the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program that has been updated annually since the consolidation project was approved. In addition to the stipulations of the mitigation measure, the County has requested that all landfill lights face to the west to avoid confusion for incoming aircraft. According to the most recent monitoring report, completed on April 17, 2018, Forward Landfill has complied with this mitigation measure since 2003, and has not received any non-compliance reports for lighting hazards to aircraft navigation. Although, as discussed here and in Surrounding and Nearby Land Uses, above, current landfill lighting does not interfere with aircraft navigation, the effect of lighting associated with the expansion areas may result in a potentially significant impact with respect to pilots. Implementation of procedures already included in the project, as well as Mitigation Measure A.S,below, would reduce this impact to less than significant. The following procedures are proposed as part of the project: • Aircraft warning lights will be installed at the landfill as and when required by the FAA. • As required by California Code of Regulation Title 27, Section 20270(b), Airport Safety, the owner or operators proposing to site new solid waste facility units and lateral expansions within a five-mile radius of any airport runway end used by turbojet or piston-type aircraft must notify the affected airport and the FAA. Forward notified the