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a n water service to the complex in the near future. Continued use of the on-site wells(with water duality treatment) will be considered an alterative source of drinking water if it is subsequently determined the City's proposal to provide water is deeined infeasible. The complex already has wastewater service that is expected to be sufficient to meet the creeds of the planned reentry facility.NCYCC's garbage trick would transport the project's solid waste to the Austin Road Landfill. 1 . The proposed facilities would operate 24 hours a day,year-round,with three 8-hour shifts(watches)_ An estimated 350-400 staff would be employed at the proposed facility and would include correctional officers., administrative, and other types of support staff. Visiting hours would be from 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m._seven days a week,and the average number of daily visitors is estimated to be approximately 100. Construction of the proposed facilities is anticipated to begin in summer 2010 with a tentative completion date of sunnier 2012. Construction work shifts would generally be between 6 a.m. and 6 pan.. Monday through Friday. A construction staging area would be located on a roughly 6-acre field west of the existing hexagonal perimeter fence line.Parking for construction workers would be provided in the existing visitor parking lot. The proposed project would include environmental protection measures related to water quality protection and earthquake resistant design. Water-duality-related protection measures require preparation of a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan,as well as additional measures to reduce impacts related to stonuwater quality. The protection measures related to earthquake resistant design require preparation of a geotechnical design study and incorporation of its recommendations. The EIR will describe these environmental protection measures in greater detail. POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS The EIR will evaluate the probable direct and cumulative environmental impacts associated with construction and implementation of the proposed NCRF project as described below.Mitigation measures will be recoi nnended where appropriate to reduce potentially significant and significant impacts.In order to accurately scope the project's potential environmental impacts, an Initial Study was prepared and included as part of this NOP.Based on the results of the Initial Study, CDCR has determined that the following issues will be analyzed in detail in the EIR: Air Quality The EIR will describe regional and local air duality in the vicinity of the project site and evaluate impacts to air quality associated with project construction and operation. The project's estimated air emissions will be compared to emissions thresholds of the San Joaquin Valley Air.Pollution Control District. The EIR will also include a discussion of greenhouse gas emissions and the project's contribution to potential cumulative impacts on global climate. Biological Resources Although the majority of the existing prison complex would be re-used for the reentry facility the project would involve some limited grading and site preparation for new buildings,improvements to infrastructure, etc. This grading could potentially conflict with existing foraging habitat of local raptor species.Operation of the proposed lethal electrified fence could also result in the individual take of some species. The project's potential to adversely { affect special status species and their habitat will be analyzed in the EIR. l Northern California Reentry Facility Revised Notice of Preparationlinitial Study California Department of Corrections and Rehabilifxttion 9 November 2009