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This Resource Plan is submitted as a supplement to San Joaquin County's certified EIR No. ER-91-2 for the Buckeye Ranch Project. Supplements to EIRs are authorized by the State CEQA Guidelines,Title 14 California Code of Reg. §15000,!;1. through the authority granted by Public Resources Code §21166. Although the Resource Plan could properly be processed as an addendum to an EIR, Title 14 California Code of Reg. §15164,in order to achieve a desirable kind of notice and level of public review the County chose to treat the document as a Supplement. Title 14 California Code of Reg. §15163. The Resource Plan considers in greater detail feasible mitigation measures that relate to retaining the project at the sponsor preferred location. See Figure 2-3, 2-4 and 2-5 at pages 2-6 through 2-8 of the Final Environmental Impact Report. The greater level of detail is intended to facilitate a comparison of the relative reduction in environmental impacts anticipated from the project if located at the sponsor's preferred site as opposed to the relocated site depicted at page 4.7-28 of the Final EIR. Accordingly, this supplement to the EIR, together with any comments and response to comments will be a useful document for analyzing whether the project should be relocated as suggested by Final EIR Mitigation Measure 4.7-1(a). After this Supplement is completed it will be reviewed for legal sufficiency by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. The Board shall exercise its nondelegated independent duty in reviewing and analyzing this Supplement,Public Resources Code §21082.1(b) and Title 14 California Code of Reg. §15025(b)(1), and if it determines to certify this Supplement it shall declare that Supplement reflects its independent judgment. Public Resources Code §21082.1(c)(3). After certifying this Supplement the Board shall then detemiine what mitigation measures are adequate to reduce the impact to a level of less than significant or to select a site for the project which does not reduce all impacts to a level of less than significant if this selection is accompanied with a statement of overriding consideration. Buckeye Ranch Resource Plan (November, 1993) 1