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IV. IMPACT OVERVIEW California is seismically active. The 1997 Uniform Building Code(UBC)places California in Seismic Risk Zones 3 and 4,the zones with the greatest seismic risk. Stockton is in Zone 3, within which earthquakes of substantial (though not maximum) magnitudes and damage are expected to occur. The project site could be affected by earthquakes on any of several active or potentially active faults in the area, including the San Andreas,Hayward, Calaveras, Green Valley-Concord, Midland, and Tracy-Stockton Faults. Geotechnical and seismic design criteria for project construction would conform with engineering recommendations derived in accordance with seismic requirements for Zone 3 of the 1994 or 1997 UBC and the California Building Code (Title 24). Liquefaction (a soil phenomenon in which water-saturated,cohesionless soil temporarily loses its structural strength and becomes fluidlike in response to seismic ground shaking) is a potential secondary hazard that could be triggered by an earthquake. Areas with the greatest potential for liquefaction have unconsolidated granular soils and a depth to groundwater of less than 20 feet. Liquefaction is not a significant risk at the project site,which has clay soils and a depth to groundwater of approximately 40 feet(City of Stockton, 1990b). BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES The project site is already developed as a solid waste collection facility,corporation yard, and transfer station in an industrialized area. No biological resources or native habitat would be adversely affected by the project. AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES The project, which is located on a developed site in an urbanized area of Stockton, would have no impact on agricultural resources. POPULATION AND HOUSING Stockton Scavengers currently employees 66 people at the site(as maintenance and facility staff, office staff,and collection vehicle drivers)and anticipates adding 8 additional employees under the project,to staff the materials recovery sort line and increased transfer station activities. This minor increase in employees, which could reasonably be expected to be drawn from the local applicant pool, would not have any appreciable effect on regional or local residential population and housing. Nor would the project itself—expansion of a transfer station—attract new residents to the area,displace existing residents, or otherwise have an effect on population or housing dynamics in the City or region. PUBLIC SERVICES AND UTILITIES The proposed project would not substantially increase the demand for or require expansion of services provided by City of Stockton Police and Fire Departments, nor impair the ability of these departments to provide services to surrounding areas. The project would require some increase in Stockton Scavenger Transfer Station Expansion 1V.5 ESA/990190