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IV. IMPACT OVERVIEW mitigate the projects contribution to the cumulative impact, but would not fully mitigate the project's operational impacts to air quality to a less-than-significant level. Consequently, when project operational impacts are added to impacts from cumulative development,the total emissions would remain significant. TRAFFIC CIRCULATION AND SAFETY As discussed in Section III.C,the project's contribution to cumulative impacts on transportation circulation and safety would be mitigated to a less-than-significant level with implementation of Mitigation Measure C.2 identified in the report. NOISE The analysis presented in Section III.D,Noise, indicates that the project would not contribute significantly to cumulative roadway noise impacts. The noise analysis presented in Section IIID takes into account existing noise levels in the project vicinity. Because there are no new development projects planned in the immediate project vicinity, it is assumed that the ambient noise environment plus project noise estimated in the noise section would represent future cumulative conditions. As such,the project would violate the City's nighttime exterior noise standards at adjacent residences. CULTURAL RESOURCES As indicated in Section TILE,the potential for the project to have any impact on cultural resources is extremely remote, although not nonexistent. The General Plan EIR indicates that the area of concern regarding impacts to cultural resources is in "future growth areas" identified in the General Plan—areas at considerable distances from the developed,industrialized neighborhood in which the project site is located. The Findings of the General Plan EIR incorporates measures to mitigate impacts to cultural resources in these areas, and finds that the measures will avoid or mitigate the impact such that impacts to cultural resources would not constitute a significant adverse effect.Therefore there would not be a cumulative impact to which the project might contribute. HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY As discussed in Section III.F,Hydrology and Water Quality,the potential impacts of the project on water quality are mitigable to insignificant levels. Potential construction impacts would be short term and mitigated to avoid any adverse impacts on water quality. Mitigation Measure F.2 calls for adoption of best management practices in updating the site's NPDES Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan and installation of collection and treatment facilities,as needed based on the results of NPDES monitoring. This measure will ensure that runoff is treated unless it is free of pollutants and is consistent with water quality mitigations in the General Plan EIR, which include encouragement of the use of a settling pond and other filtering methods to reduce the amount of pollutants entering surface water resources. The project's contribution to increased Stockton Scavenger Transfer Station Erpansion I V.3 ESA/990190_