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5. ALTERNATIVES PROCESSING MATERIAL EXTRACTED AT THE PROJECT SITE AT THE _ EXISTING RMC PACIFIC MATERIALS' TRACY FACILITY Description This alternative would have assessed the potential of extracting aggregate at the Project site then transporting the raw or semi-processed material to the existing and/or new plant located at the Applicant's Tracy Facility. Basis for Selection The Applicant has stated in their updated application(December 2003,that the proposed project is a replacement facility for their Tracy Plant. The Tracy Facility will be depleted of reserves in three to ten years. According to the Division of Mines and Geology, 82% of the material produced in the TracyNemalis area satisfies market demand to the north in the Stockton area. Utilizing an existing facility closer to the market, potentially reducing traffic,noise,air quality, and visual impacts at the project site may be a more environmentally sensitive alternative. Distinctive Environmental Characteristics The following summarizes potential impacts of the"Processing Material Extracted at the Project Site at the Existing RMC Pacific Materials' Tracy Facility"alternative: The material extracted at the project site would be taken to an existing facility that is already processing material. This would serve to reduce some of the impacts to the project site. The visual impacts would be reduced to residents near the project site and those traveling along Blewett and Koster Road. The construction and operations emissions would be reduced by not _ having a processing facility at the project site. The noise impacts from processing materials at the site would be eliminated with this alternative. However,there would still be truck traffic in the Vernalis area due to the trucks taking the — extracted material to the existing Tracy Facility. Truck traffic might actually be increased because the trucks would then need to make additional trips when traveling to the Tracy Facility to pick up and deliver the material after it has been processed. 5.2 ALTERNATIVES EVALUATED IN THIS EIR _ ALTERNATIVE 1 -NO PROJECT ALTERNATIVE DESCRIPTION The No Project Alternative is defined as the continuation of the existing condition(baseline)and trends in the project area. This alternative would involve no action on the part of San Joaquin County or the Applicant for development of the Proposed Project. Under this alternative,the _ proposed mining and processing would not occur,and the project site would remain as agricultural land and rural residential in its existing condition,as described in Chapter 3.0, Project Description,and in the setting sections of Chapter 4.0 of this EIR. No General Plan — RMC Pacific Vernalis Qua. Minting and Reclamation Project 5-6 ESA/203015 Admhnisttatwc Draft EIR Minch 2004