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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.A-13 ` Forward Inc.Landfill 2014 Expansion Project Hazardous Waste Element(HHWE), a Nondisposal Facility Element(NDFE), and a Siting Element. The Siting Element specifies the location of solid waste disposal and transformation — facilities needed to provide capacity for the implementation of the CIWMP. The Siting Element also requires identification of future projects including expansions of existing sites. (Reno, 2009). The Siting Element of the San Joaquin County CIWMP,April 1996, identifies the existing _ Forward Landfill, and the former Austin Road Sanitary Landfill, as designated disposal facilities. As required by AB 939, the Siting Element of the CIWMP also presents remaining disposal capacity for the 15-year planning period beginning in January 1995. The discussion of remaining capacity includes the two then-existing landfills (the original Forward Landfill and the former Austin Road Sanitary Landfill) and the Austin Road Sanitary Landfill expansion. Based on landfills active at that time, including the then-existing Austin Road and original Forward Landfills, the North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill, and the Foothill Sanitary Landfill, San Joaquin County had disposal capacity sufficient to last until the year 2041. This is substantially more than 15 years of capacity. San Joaquin County has local regulatory and monitoring responsibilities for the existing Forward Landfill, under Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations. These are fulfilled by the County Department of Public Works, Solid Waste Division. The role of Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) for the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery(CalRecycle)is fulfilled by the San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department. The San Joaquin County Planning Commission has authority to approve project plans and --� specifications. Decisions of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the Board of Supervisors. Agricultural Land v The currently proposed new landfill areas (approximately 11 acres in the southeast of the existing landfill and approximately 10 acres in the northeast of the existing landfill) are not currently in agricultural use and are not considered Prime agricultural land, as defined by the State of California (Government Code Section 51201). Prime agricultural land in the project vicinity is shown in Figure IV.A-3. Prime agricultural land is defined by Government Code Section 51201 as any of the following: • Land qualifying for a Storie Index rating of 80-100; • Land qualifying for a Natural Resource Conservation Service land use capability Class I or Class II rating; • Grazing land capable of supporting at least one animal unit per acre; • Agricultural land that has returned at least$200/acre for three of the past five years, or will normally return at least$200/acre. The expansion area in the southeast of the existing landfill consists of creek channel and existing permitted landfill operations(including the composting facility), does not provide viable grazing land because of its small size and isolation from other grazing land, and has not been used for agriculture for many years. The approximately 10 acres in the northeast of the existing landfill is classified as Urban on the Prime Agricultural Land and Important Farmland Map, and is not viable as grazing land because of its small size and isolation from other grazing land, and has not been used for agriculture for many years.