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388 17th Street, Suite 230, Oakland, CA 94612 | (510) 420-8686 | www.baseline-env.com Mailing Address: PO Box 18586, Oakland, CA 94619 MEMORANDUM Date: March 25, 2025 Job No.: 21202-23 To: Rob Carnachan, Senior Environmental Planner, WRA, Inc. From: Yilin Tian, Project Environmental Engineer, Baseline Environmental Consulting Subject: Air Quality Technical Study, North County Sanitary Landfill and Recycling Center Solid Waste Facility Permit Amendment Project, Lodi, California Baseline Environmental Consulting (Baseline) has prepared this technical study to evaluate the potential air quality impacts associated with the proposed North County Sanitary Landfill and Recycling Center (North County Landfill) Solid Waste Facility Permit Amendment Project (project) located in Lodi, California. This technical memorandum includes an overview of existing air quality conditions and regulations, and an analysis of the potential air quality impacts associated with the implementation of the project. This study will be used to support the environmental review for the project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). PROJECT DESCRIPTION The project site is located at 17720 East Harney Lane and approximately 0.35 miles south of East Harney Lane via an access road (Figure 1). The project site has operated as a solid waste disposal and transfer/processing facility since 1991. The total permitted area for all facility operations is 320 acres and the landfilling area is 185 acres. The northern one-third of the property between the landfill and Harney Lane is a mitigation area established to preserve wetlands in the landfill’s footprint. In addition to the waste disposal area, the four main buildings on site are a recycling center, office/maintenance building, water pump house building, and scale house. There is a permanent berm, set back 100 feet from the property line, surrounding the project site’s perimeter. The project consists of a proposed amendment to the Solid Waste Facility Permit to increase the maximum allowed daily refuse disposal and the number of daily incoming refuse vehicles from 1,200 tons per day and 850 vehicles per day to 4,000 tons and 1,200 vehicles per day. This increase would involve a change in refuse truck routing; approximately 50 transfer trucks that currently go to the Foothill Landfill would be re-routed to the North County Landfill. The refuse trucks would access the North County Landfill via East Harney Lane and the North County Landfill access road. The projected annual intake would increase from 250,000 tons in 2024 to 660,000 tons in 2026, then increase 3% annually thereafter. In addition, the North County Landfill currently operates from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, seven days per week. The project would