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I Site Development - Potential Impacts due to SB 1383 Site development of North County Sanitary Landfill (NCSL) is planned to continue within the property currently approved and permitted for the expansion and growth of the landfill. Most material brought to the landfill is either source separated (municipal waste)or sorted on site at the recycling center. Hence the bulk of green waste is already removed from the waste stream. Food waste while it may constitute a proportion by weight has little effect on the volume and hence any change in the food waste stream promoted by SB1383 is not expected to have a significant effect upon the development of the site which is primarily driven by volume aka air space consumed. 2 Waste types / volumes Source data for North County Landfill is broken down into three primary sources. They include: Direct Haul, Lovelace Transfers, Recycling Facility Transfers,and contaminants from the onsite green/wood waste processing facility. Each group is described below with the exception of the last group which is less than 0.25% of the overall quantity and is largely inert materials. Direct Haul - Direct haul is a mix of commercial and residential waste that is hauled by commercial haulers and disposed of directly at the active face. Most of this material is source separated. Lovelace Transfers -The County operates the Lovelace transfer station which receives residential and commercial waste deposited by commercial collectors and self haulers. Most of the commercial collectors are source separated and material brought by self haulers is subject to basic separation on site that removes typical green waste and common recycleable items such as white goods,tires,wood, mattresses, metals and clean green waste. Recycling Facility- Material from self-haul and small commercial haulers are separated on site. The three beneficial use categories which are reported regularly are described briefly below. The remaining material is hauled from the recycling center and placed in the landfill. Salvaged Material - Metal, mattresses,oil and other common recyclable materials Compostables- Green waste and wood is sorted and ground on site. Some is converted for use as landscape treatment/bark and some is used for erosion control onsite. The remainder is hauled to a composting facility. Contaminated material is landfilled. Inerts- Construction debris such as concrete, brick rock and similar material is separated on site,and repurposed for construction of haul roads,winter pads and other similar uses. Figure 1 below shows the tonnages landfilled for most recent three years of the three categories described above. Note that spring 2020 was the beginning of the COVID crisis and for several months at the beginning of that operations were modified to accommodate staffing and operating limitations. 2