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Environmental Impact Report No. ER -93-1 The Environmental Review Officer has determined that the project may have a significant impact on the environment and hereby gives notice that an Environmental Impact Report is to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), as amended. APPLICATION: The applicant has submitted Use Permit Application No. UP -93-4 for a materials recovery and transfer facility. PROJECT: The proposed Tracy Materials Recovery Facility is located on 38.8 acres on the west side of MacArthur Drive, south of Linne Road, south of the City of Tracy. This facility will accept all refuse from the City of Tracy and portions of the unincorporated south County area. The facility will be designed to accommodate 500 to 600 tons of material per day and will provide two primary functions: transfer of waste to the County's foothill landfill, and recovery of materials for recycling. Please see Attachment A for a more detailed project description. PROJECT SIZE: 38.8 acres. LOCATION: The project is located south of the City of Tracy, on the west side of MacArthur Drive, south of Linne Road. The majority of the site is within a large reclaimed gravel pit approximately 30 to 35 feet deep. A. Biological Resources: The project area is the site of an abandoned and reclaimed gravel quarry. Vegetation on the site consists primarily of annual grasses. Development of the site as proposed may have potentially significant impacts relative to biological resources. The Natural Diversity Data Base identifies the following special status species as potentially being in the project area: Swainson's hawk, San Joaquin kit fox, valley elderberry longhorn beetle, tricolored blackbird, and burrowing owl. Two other special status species, the California horned lark and the loggerhead shrike, have also been observed in the general project area. As part of the application materials submitted, the applicants included a San Joaquin kit fox surrey prepared by Jones and Stokes under contract to the applicant. This survey concluded that no kit foxes den or forage on the project site and that there are no historical records of kit fox occurrence at the project site. Recent kit fox surveys conducted by EIP Associates, as part of the Habitat Conservation Plan being prepared for San Joaquin County, have recorded kit fox presence at two sites within 3 to 3.5 miles of the project site. One kit fox was observed near the Tracy Golf and Country Club, and a kit fox track was observed in an open field near the intersection of Linne Road and Tracy Boulevard. There was also an unconfirmed kit fox sighting at the Tracy Municipal Airport in 1992. There are numerous Swainson's hawk nests located within approximately 6 to 10 miles of the site. Notice of Preparation - 1 - ER -93-1