COMPLIANCE INFO_FINAL INITIAL STUDY/MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION 5/25

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North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill Permit Revision Project Final Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration · San Joaquin County | May 2025 73 are no known historical or cultural resources located within the project site. Mitigation Measure CUL-1 would ensure that any accidentally discovered cultural resources would be treated with proper care if there is future ground-disturbing construction activity at the project site. Therefore, the impacts would be less than significant with mitigation incorporated. b) Does the project have impacts that are individually limited, but cumulatively considerable? (“Cumulatively considerable” means that the incremental effects of a project are considerable when viewed in connection with the effects of past projects, the effects of other current projects, and the effects of probable future projects)? Less-than-Significant Impact The project is limited to the increase of waste acceptance and operating hours at an existing landfill; solid waste would be diverted from other County landfills to North County Landfill. The project is not connected to any past projects or anticipated future projects with which its incremental effects would be deemed cumulatively considerable. Landfill operations would be expanded, and upon the landfill’s closure, there is one other sanitary landfill, a recycling center and transfer station, and a hazardous household waste facility to serve the County. Also, the County will have the option of expanding the landfill via purchase of adjacent property. No site expansion is proposed by the project and would thus not encourage further growth or development within the County. The project’s cumulative impacts would be less than significant. c) Does the project have environmental effects that will cause substantial adverse effects on human beings, either directly or indirectly? Less-than-Significant Impact Based upon the impact evaluations in Sections 4.2.1, Aesthetics, through 4.2.20, Wildfire, the project does not have the potential to result in environmental effects that will cause substantial adverse effects on human beings. Two environmental impacts may be caused by the project, related to cultural resources and tribal cultural resources. However, the project would implement mitigation measure CUL-1, reducing project related impacts that may affect cultural resources and tribal cultural resources to a less than significant level. Therefore, the project does not have the potential to cause substantial adverse effects on human beings.