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remixed (apparently including the noxious rubber)and trucked back to the project site. This is very inefficient,and results in a doubling or tripling of traffic and air quality impacts in our neighborhood. How much more efficient are sites like KRC,Granite and Teichert in Vernalis,or CMI in Hughson,where ALL of the necessary raw materials are onsite. Certainly,the impact of such assembly is nothing akin to agriculture as Munn and Perkins Noise Study expert states. I was involved with Munn and Perkins original promise to provide a noise study back in the fail of 2008! Yet we only received their first insufficient Noise Study in April 2010 (approximately 1 Y,years later)I We then recently received the second purported study. One wonders how many times they tried before they could have the trucks drive at a directed speed which lowered the decibel level. In any case,the Noise Study and the most recent"redo"of the initial study prepared by the applicant is a serious disappointment and lacks any sort of scientific credibility. It is even more disappointing that the County did not require the applicant to pay for peer review the report. The final indignity is the Study's conclusion that the NEIGHBORHOOD, not the applicant,must mitigate noise impacts,possibly year round,by closing their windows at night. Recently I have read that the closure of windows is just a suggestion and not an actually"approved" mitigation measure. If such a suggestion was actually approved as a mitigation measure, I am told it would be a new"interpretation"of environmental law yet to be seen in this state or any other. In any case, inasmuch as our neighborhood is in a PG&E district,our bills are already high. They would climb even higher were we to be forced to follow the "suggestion"to close our windows and skylights and run the air conditioner to circulate coot air as the applicant cavalierly would have us do. Currently,we all enjoy opening our windows at night to allow the cooling breezes in, uninterrupted by the daytime's constant stream of truck traffic and related noise. As it now stands,the early morning truck traffic noise from River Road and the McHenry bridge flows through open windows and skylights(we are more than 250 feet off of River Road and a quarter mile or so from the bridge). We all know that sound only carries greater at night and would become an extreme intrusion, unless of course,we "mitigated" Munn and Perkins environmental impacts by closing our windows and skylights at night. By doing so we could probably hear the sound of our PG&E meters whirring as our bills rose even higher! I hope that all of you do not accept Munn and Perkins"sound study" as the basis for any sort of blessing of their nighttime proposal. We urge you to(a)deny the Project outright or(b) require the applicant to prepare a full Environmental Impact Report on this Project. Respectfully Submitted(via email to avoid delay), James D. Mayol and Family