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i Project Description Tracy Material Recovery Facility and Transfer Station Expansion 30703 S. MacArthur Drive, Tracy, Califomfa 95377 4 ✓ (APN 253-130-026) (the "southern parcel") adjacent to the south of the existing operations. The southern parcel is currently permitted (as part of the Solid Waste Facility Permit) and maintains approval for a tomato mud spreading/cattle feeding operation. The ability of an expanded facility to serve the region in the g processing and transfer of recyclable materials, will reduce the overall costs to regional operators -- as well as minimize the health impacts of particulate matter and other emissions — from diesel collection and transfer vehicles that now haul the materials to facilities in Oakland, San Jose, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The Tracy Material Recovery Facility and Transfer Station described below are located 4 miles south of the City of Tracy in the unincorporated area of San Joaquin County. 1 PROJECT PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES From AS 939 to AS 32 i Tracy MRF & TS is now poised to transform the Facility from being the regional AB 939 Facility, into a green energy resource recovery park to meet the measures of AB 32, the California Global Solution Act of 2006. AB 32 resulted in the adoption of the AB 32 { Scoping Plan in 2008 that included a series of measures adopted by the California Air Resources Board for High Recycling/Zero Waste, which will affect the solid waste and recycling sector and local government. The key measures of AB 32 include the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), mandated Commercial Recycling, Anaerobic Digestion (AD), the increased use of Compost, and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Mandated commercial recycling will require additional processing capacity at recycling facilities.s Strategic Directive No. 6 being implemented by the new state overnight agency, CalRecycle, requires that 50% of the organic material be diverted from landfills by 2020. The organic feedstock can be processed into compost feedstock to increase compost use or be used as feedstock for anaerobic digestion facilities. k" AS 32 Scoping Plan— High Recycling/Zero Waste F The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted over 100 measures to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) with high recycling that are aimed at reducing methane emissions at landfills, increasing waste diversion, composting and other beneficial uses of organic materials, and mandating commercial recycling as California moves toward zero waste. As clearly stated in the AB 32 Scoping Plan, California has a long track I record of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by turning waste into resources, exemplified by the statewide waste diversion rate from landfills of 54 percent (which exceeds the current 50 percent mandate) resulting from recovery of recyclable materials. Re-introducing recyclables with intrinsic energy value back into the 2 170.18.03 CUP Project Description 050710 � I i r