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i PROJECT LOCATION The project site is located on 134-acres of state-owned property adjacent to the northeast corner of the Northern California Youth Correctional Center.The site is less than two miles east of State Route 99 (SIR 99)in unincorporated central San Joaquin County, immediately southeast of the Stockton city limits. (See Exhibit 2.) It is approximately 6 miles northeast of the cities of Lathrop and Manteca,21 miles northwest of Modesto, 17 miles northeast of Tracy, and IS miles south of Lodi.Arch Road provides direct access to the project site and State Route(SR)99.provides regional access. The site is immediately north of the recently approved 1,734-bed. California Prison Health Care Facility(CHCF), Stockton project,which is also located on the grounds of the NCYCC. As mentioned above,CDCR is in the early planning stages of a project to convert the former DeWitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facility at NCYCC to an adult correctional facility.Dewitt Nelson is located directly south of the CHCF project site. The facility being planned for DeWitt Nelson would renovate the existing housing units and provide for the construction of additional buildings and infrastructure to accommodate a 1,133-bed medical and mental health facility.(See Exhibit 3) The reentry project site was originally the Northern California.t omen's Facility.a secure female initiate prison that closed in 2003. Subsequently,the facility was used as a correctional officer training academy called the Richard A. McGee Correctional Training Center Annex(CTCA),which closed in 2008-With the exception of occasional field training exercises the site is currently vacant but maintained. The project site includes a hexagonal two-row exterior perimeter fence(12 feet tall tapped with razor ribbon). The vacant buildings surrounding the fortifier recreation yard include four former housing units, a former food service building and ,reception building,and a former control/support/program building. The area south of the former recreation yard includes the former kitchen delivery/service area;plant operations, storage,maintenance,and an abandoned Prison Industry Authority facility that previously operated a laundry,warehouse, and program space. There are no i guard towers on the project site. ti DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT k The proposed conversion would involve construction of a new medical building, as well as renovation of y buildings for facility program support services:dining and receiving,family visiting,academic acid vocational education,miscellaneous support,and a gymnasium(see Exhibit 4). Existing NCWF structures contain 400 cells; total planned inmate capacity for the reentry facility is a total of 500 beds. To provide the additional capacity there would be 100 double-bunked units_the balance of the Housing facilities would remain single-bed units. Chapter 9.8 of Assembly Bill 900(Section 6271[a]) sets a limit on reentry facilities of"up to 500 beds each:"therefore. the population of the facility cannot exceed the 500-bed legislative cap. At the northwest part of the prison site, a new 16,500 square foot medical building would be constructed at a similar scale to the existing buildings.The project would be designed to comply with LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System)standards,with a goal of LEED Silver for the proposed medical facility. Perimeter security for the proposed NCRF would be enhanced to include a lethal electrified fence and three armed perimeter guard towers. Other improvements would include the construction, repair,or replacement of the boundary line fencing,roads,parking. outer perimeter landscaping,inmate recreation yard improvements, site grading, site lighting,storm drainage improvements,and extension of utilities to each building. CDCR would also improve the prison's electrical supply.distribution,water and wastewater service,and refuse disposal systems_ No new high-roast lighting would be added to the project site. Water service to NCYCC andNCCtVF are froni on-site wells. However; due to shallow groundwater contamination associated with the adjacent mimicipal landfill the City's utility department is planning to extend Northern California Reentry Facility Revised Notice of Preparationllnitial Study California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 5 November 2009