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John Funderburg April 6, 2012 Page 5 • Identification of the waste diversion rates, pursuant to AB 939, for each of the ,jurisdictions that currently sends waste to Forward Landfill or that would be _ expected to send waste to the landfill under the proposed Project; • Information regarding the landfill's program for groundwater quality monitoring — (e.g., down gradient well sampling program including the identification of the specific location of wells); • Documentation of the landfill's existing leachate monitoring, collection, treatment, and disposal program and a detailed description of the leachate program associated with the proposed Project; • Information regarding the landfill's existing gas collection and monitoring system and a detailed description of the proposed gas collection and monitoring system that would be implemented by the proposed Project; and, • Identification of the average number of vehicles using the landfill on a daily basis and the number of vehicles that would use the landfill under the proposed Project. This information should be classified by heavy-duty trucks, light-duty trucks, and -- vehicles. It is also important to point out that the NOP fails to define the specific — objectives for the proposed Project. Inasmuch as the project objectives are intended to state the true underlying purpose of a project, the absence of objectives is particularly _ troubling. Moreover, without a thorough understanding of the proposed Project's purpose, it is all but impossible to identify and evaluate reasonable and feasible Project alternatives. The information requested above must be provided in order for the County to systematically identify and analyze the significant effects of the proposed Project and _ the feasible mitigation measures or alternatives that will avoid or substantially lessen such significant effects. B. Environmental Impacts. Analysis of environmental impacts must be guided by CEQA's — fundamental purpose of"inforin[ing] the public and responsible officials of the environmental consequences of their decisions before they are made." Laurel Heights ImprovementAss'n v. Regents ofthe Univ, of Cal., 6 Cal. 4th 1112, 1123 (1988). To S 1-1 UTE N111-1 A LY l'� .. V/EINhEIZGI:IZi�.r --