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It should be noted that, pursuant to CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines, the San Joaquin County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors may balance the benefits of I adoption of the project against the unavoidable environmental impacts in determining ' whether to approve the project. If.the benefits are found to outweigh the impacts, the ! adverse effects may be considered "acceptable" and an or all of the identified Y mitigation � measures may be rejected. Context for Cumulative Impact Analysis Section 15130 of the CEQA Guidelines requires a discussion off potential cumulative impacts that could result from a proposed project in conjunction with other projects in the vicinity. Cumulative impacts occur when two or more individual effects together create a considerable environmental impact or compound or increase other impacts. An EIR must contain a discussion of cumulative impacts, meaning the impacts of the project viewed in the context of environmental impacts expected to be caused by reasonably foreseeable i! or possible future projects. The possible future projects considered generally consist of a list of specific projects that have been approved, are under consideration for approval, or are contemplated in adopted general plans. I, The proposed project is within an area containing significant aggregate deposits and other quarry excavations (Figure 4-1). This area provides the context for the cumulative impacts analysis for this EIR and includes the following related projects: " 3 �j 1. A Use Permit was recently granted to Granite Construction Company in Stanislaus i. County for an approximately 320-acre site that is tentatively scheduled to begin f mining in 1998. This site is located southeast of the proposed project site. 2. Brown Sand is currently processing a permit to expand their existing aggregate operations to include a 380-acre site, of which 337 acres will be excavated to a maximum depth of 150 feet below ground level. Total production over the 50-year it life of the project would be approximately 65 million tons of sand and gravel. The Brown.Sand project is located south of Blewett Road and :west of Interstate 5, F11 approximately 1.5 miles west of the project site. An EIR was recently prepared for I' the Brown Sand expansion (ER-96-2, SCH #96042075). 3. Teichert Aggregates, located directly west of the project site, recently received it approval for its quarry excavation of approximately 820 acres (QX-91-5, ER-92-2, Ij i SCH #91052007). Approximately 736 acres would be mined over a 50-year period !i F; and yield approximately 101 million tons of sand and gravel.,. i 4. A potential mining site currently under contract to Lone Star, containing 530 acres, r is located east of the project site. �! Cumulative impacts would occur in the following environmental areas: Agriculture and Land Use, Traffic and Circulation; Air Quality; Noise; Biological Resources, and Cultural jl Resources. Cumulative impacts within these areas are discussed at the end of each of the j corresponding issue sections in this chapter. � I Draft Environmental Impact Report 4-3 ER-96-3 ii