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AUGUST 2010 REVISED NOTICE OF PREPARATION <br /> AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING <br /> CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS <br /> AND REHABILITATION <br /> PROPOSED NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REENTRY FACILITY AND <br /> DEWITT NELSON YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY CONVERSION <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA <br /> RECIRCULATION OF EIR SCOPING NOTICE <br /> The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has revised and is <br /> distributing for a third time the Notice of Preparation (NOP) for an Environmental Impact <br /> Report (EIR) for the proposed Northern California Reentry Facility (NCRF) on Arch Road in <br /> San Joaquin County south of Stockton. The NOP has been revised to acknowledge that CDCR <br /> will now consider not only the NCRF project but also the proposed conversion of the adjacent <br /> DeWitt Nelson Youth Correctional,Facility (DeWitt Nelson) to a mental and medical health <br /> facility for adult male inmates in a single EIR. The NCRF/DeWitt Nelson EIR will address both <br /> proposals equally at a project level of environmental analysis. <br /> The DeWitt Nelson facility is located in the southeastern corner of Northern California Youth <br /> Correctional Center (NCYCC). NCYCC consists of a complex of four CDCR Division of <br /> Juvenile Justice (OJJ) correctional facilities including N. A. Chaderjian, O. H. Close, Karl <br /> Holton, and DeWitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facilities. The proposed NCRF is situated <br /> immediately northeast of the Karl Holton facility. The Karl Holton and DeWitt Nelson facilities <br /> are now considered permanently closed and no longer needed to meet the needs of the DJJ. <br /> These facilities are excess to the DJJ's needs because of the substantial reduction in the <br /> number of wards being committed to the state's juvenile justice system. However, the <br /> N. A. Chaderjian and O. H. Close facilities are to remain operational and the DJJ believes <br /> these juvenile correctional facilities will continue to be needed for the foreseeable future. <br /> 4 <br /> SEPTEMBER 2009 NOP AND REVISED DECEMBER 2009 NOP <br /> Two NOPs for the proposed NCRF project have been previously circulated for public and <br /> responsible agency review by CDCR; this includes the original NOP in September 2009_ <br /> (hereinafter the September 2009 NOP) and subsequent revised NOP in December 2009 <br /> ' (hereinafter the December 2009 NOP). The proposed NCRF project involves the renovation <br /> and reuse of the former women's correctional facility_ The project would consist of a 500-bed <br /> secure reentry facility for adult male inmates that are scheduled for parole to San Joaquin <br /> County, Amador County, and Calaveras County. <br /> After release of the September 2009 NOP on September 18,2009, two subsequent <br /> developments occurred that resulted in a change to the anticipated scope of the original NCRF <br /> EIR. These changes were addressed in the .December 2009 NOP; this document was <br /> recirculated for community and agency consideration on December 2, 2009. <br /> One of the changed conditions that required the recirculation of the NOP was the.formal <br /> approval of the 1,734-bed California Health Care Facility (CHCF) for adult male inmates at the <br /> i <br /> site of the former Karl Holton facility by the California Prison Health Care Receiver (CPR)"in <br /> NCRF and DeWitt Nelson Conversion Project Revised Notice of Preparationllnitial Study <br /> California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 1 August 2010 <br />