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RANCH NAME SKS Enterprises, Inc. - Brandt Road Facility - San Joaquin County SITE LOCATION The Brandt Road Facility is east of the town of Lockeford as it transitions from the valley floor to the low foothills (Figure 1). From Highway 99, take the Victor Road / Highway 12 east exit. Go east towards Lockeford. At the Highway 12 / Highway 88 intersection go north (left) towards Lockeford. Prior to Lockeford, take a right (east) on Brandt Road. Continue on Brandt Road until it dead ends. Follow the SKS signs to the left. Portions of sections 29, 31, & 32, Township 5 North, Range 7 East of the USGS 7.5 - minute Clements and Wallace topographic quadrangles (Figure 2). SITE DESCRIPTION The majority of the project site is a year round 700,000 bird capacity poultry operation. This operation sits on approximately 763 +/- acres and consists of several poultry houses and associated waste water storage ponds, employee houses, office, egg processing plant, storage buildings, and a woody block. Annual rangeland with scattered oaks and associated seasonal wetlands make up the remainder of the land not utilized by actual poultry operation (Figure 3). The site is bound on the north by KRC Aggregate and annual rangeland, on the east and west by annual rangeland, on the south by Brandt Road and ore annual rangeland. There are a few ranchette homes within the annual range sites. The Mokelumne Aqueduct is piped and runs through the site from east to west. Elevations at the site are approximately 250 to 350 feet above sea level. The average annual precipitation is approximately 17 inches per year. R]