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obANIL � C �� ) Supplement to Final EnvironrCtal Impact Report Page 1 Forward Inc.Landfill Development Project-South and Northeast Portions PROJECT DESCRIPTION FOR NOTICE OF PREPARATION A. BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION The existing Forward,Inc.Landfill (Forward Landfill),is an approximately 567-acre,privately owned,waste disposal and transfer station/materials recovery facility(MRF). The landfill owner and operator,Forward,Inc. (Forward),also owns 184 acres,known as the"Brocchini" parcel,which is immediately adjacent to the Forward Landfill but is not permitted for solid waste handling activities. Therefore,the total acreage owned by Forward,Inc is 751 acres. The Forward Landfill is located seven miles southeast of the City of Stockton in San Joaquin County, California (see Sht 1). The landfill is not open to the general public and is a Class II facility. Class II facilities are designed and constructed to more stringent environmental standards than typical Class III municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills and can accept both MSW and designated wastes (such as contaminated soils or treated wood wastes). All customers are pre- screened and deliveries must be scheduled in advance.The Forward Landfill is the only Class II landfill in San Joaquin County. The approximately 567-acre Forward Landfill is a combination of the City of Stockton s former 410-acre Austin Road Sanitary Landfill (now the northern portion of the current Forward Landfill) and the 157-acre original Forward Landfill (now the southern portion of the current Forward Landfill). The 184-acre"Brocchini" parcel is within the facility boundary of the site but is not permitted for landfill activities. The original Forward Landfill was initialy permitted in 1973 and converted to a Class II landfill in 1993. (For clarity,this smaller former"Forward Landfill" is referred to as the Original Forward Landfill in this document). The Austin Road Sanitary Landfill began operations in the 1950s as an unlined Class III landfill and was sold by the City of Stockton to Forward.As part of the purchase agreement with the City of Stockton, the former Austin Road Landfill was transferred from City to County jurisdiction and Forward agreed to remediate the contaminated groundwater from the unlined portion of the Austin Road Landfill and to continue the groundwater corrective action program in accordance with the requirements of the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). The consolidation of the two landfills into an approximately 567-acre facility occurred in April 2003 when the County Board of Supervisors approved Use Permit Application UP-00-0007. The current Forward Landfill site includes a resource recovery facility on the southeast portion of the site, which incorporates the transfer station and materials recovery facility (MRF). The resource recovery facility is operated by Forward under a separate solid waste facilities permit. The Forward MRF includes a composting facility that is able to compost food waste. In addition to composting, recycling activities at the transfer station/MRF include processing wood waste for diversion. A landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) plant is operated in the northeast portion of the site by Ameresco. In 2012, Forward proposed an expansion of the landfill,which included a horizontal expansion of landfilling operations onto the adjoining 184-acre "Brocchini" parcel. This project entailed the following substantial modifications to previous landfill characteristics and procedures: