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M. Environmental Setting, Impacts,and Mitigations D. Transportation and Circulation Future With Project Traffic Conditions Impact D.I. The project(expansion of the Austin Road Landfill to continue operations beyond 2007)would generate vehicle trips(employees and refuse trucks)on study area roadways and intersections. (ADVERSE) Thero osed landfill expansion would not in and of itself,generate additional waste hauler or P P P landfill employee vehicle trips on vicinity roadways(compared to existing landfill operations), but rather would extend the life expectancy of the Austin Road landfill to accommodate waste from current and future waste generators in the City of Stockton until approximately the year 2045. The landfill would continue to accept waste only from licensed commercial and residential franchise haulers; the landfill would be closed to the general public. Current landfill operating hours open to the haulers (6:00 a.m.to 3:00 p.m.)would continue, and the number of full-time (five) and part-time(two)employees also would remain the same. Waste generation projections for the City of Stockton to the year 2045 (see Appendix A)indicate that current(1992-93)waste diversion(i.e.,recycled material,diverted from the waste stream)is about 30 percent of total waste generated by the City of Stockton, and that the percent of total generated waste that is disposed at the Austin Road landfill is about 38 percent. State law (AB 939)requires a 50 percent recycling rate by the year 2000,and the effect of the City's progress toward the 50 percent goal would be to reduce the percent of total generated waste disposed at the expanded project landfill to about 26 percent by 2000. As seen in Appendix A, there would be about 19 percent fewer tons per year disposed at the project landfill in 2000,and about ten percent fewer tons per year in the EIR analysis year(2005),than in 1992. The number of trucks hauling waste to the Austin Road landfill would similarly decrease from the level reflected in the July 1992 traffic counts on area roadways and intersections. To facilitate a conservative analysis of project impacts,the number of trucks traveling to and from the project site in 2005 was not decreased by ten percent,but was assumed to be the same as in 1992. With the continuation of the 50 percent recycling rate beyond 2000,exceedance of the 1992 amount of waste disposed at the project site, and the 1992 number of trucks associated with waste hauling,would not occur until 2013,more than 20 years into the future. The number of trucks would increase slightly after 2013,due to population growth and associated waste generation. Projection of traffic volumes and traffic operating condition that far into the future would be speculative and was not undertaken for this analysis. In addition,it is unlikely that truck traffic would increase substantially should soil for daily cover need to be imported or from the movement of leachate by trucks. III.D.9