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4. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSLS 4.11 HAZARDS AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS The Safety Element of the Stanislaus County General Plan(1994)contains policies regarding hazardous materials and other safety hazards. The following policies are contained in the General Plan: Policy 6 All new development shall be designed to reduce safety and health hazards. Policy 8 Roads shall be maintained for the safety of travelers. Policy 13 The Department of Environmental Resources shall continue to coordinate efforts to identify locations of hazardous materials and prepare and implement plans for management of spilled hazardous materials as required. 4.11.3 IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES SIGNIFICANCE CRITERIA ` Based on the CEQA Guidelines Appendix G,and the professional judgment of San Joaquin County staff and their consultants, a project would generally be considered to have a significant adverse environmental impact if it would create a potential public health hazard; involve the use, a► production, or disposal of materials that pose a hazard to people,animal or plant populations in the area affected; or if it would interfere with emergency response plans or emergency evacuation ` plans. For the purposes of this EIR,development of the Proposed Project would be considered to result ` in significant impacts if it would: • Create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through the routine transport, use, or disposal of hazardous materials; • Create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through reasonably foreseeable upset and accident conditions involving the release of hazardous materials into the environment; • Emit hazardous emissions or handle hazardous or acutely hazardous materials, substances, or waste within one-quarter mile of an existing or proposed school (no schools are located within one-quarter mile of the Proposed Project site); • Be located on a site which is included on a list of hazardous materials sites compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5 and, as a result,would create a significant hazard to the public or the environment; • Impair implementation of or physically interfere with an adopted emergency response plan r or emergency evacuation plan; or • Expose people or structures to a significant risk of loss or injury involving wildland fires. Impact 4.11.1: There is the potential for existing and/or previously unidentified contamination to be encountered during project site preparation,construction activities, and mining activities. A leaking underground storage tank site(Fallon Tank Company) RMC Pacific Vemabs Quarry Mining and Re Il ft.Pmjecl 4.11-13 FSA/203015 Admiammme Draft©R Masch 20D4