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Draft Environmental Impact Report Page I-1 Forward Inc. Landfill Expansion F I. INTRODUCTION A. BACKGROUND Forward, Inc. is requesting a new Conditional Use Permit from San Joaquin County for the proposed expansion and changes in operations of the Forward Landfill located near Stockton. This Environmental Impact Report(EIR)has been prepared for the County's use in considering approval of the new CUP, and may be used by other state and local agencies in their consideration of subsequent approvals of other related permits for the facility. The current project is referred to herein as the J Forward Landfill Expansion Project. This proposal would involve the following substantial modifications to current landfill characteristics and procedures: • Expansion of the facility by 177 acres, from 567 acres to 744 acres -� ' Expansion of the existing Class 11 refuse footprint from 354.5 acres to 551.8 acres • Establishment of separate tonnage limits for beneficial reuse materials and the Materials Recovery Facility • Relocation of about 3,000 feet of the South Branch of the South Fork of Littlejohns Creek • Operational modifications including solidification of non-hazardous higher liquid content { wastes • An increase in the permitted number of daily vehicles from 620 to 960 vehicles • Expansion of the landfill gas cogeneration facility at the site • Allowing a lower base grade on the main expansion site. 4 These changes are described in detail in Chapter 2, Project Description. The existing Forward, Inc. Landfill is an approximately 567-acre facility comprised of the former Forward, Inc. 144-acre Class lI landfill and the former 383-acre Class III SanJ q y Austin Count uin oa A n Road Sanitary Landfill. These two landfills were combined into the current Forward Inc. facility in fi 2002;the combination of these landfills into a single Class II facility, filling in of a wedge of airspace between them,allowing lower base grades, and expanding the hours of operation were assessed in the 2002 Consolidated Forward Landfill Environmental impact Report (San Joaquin County 2002). i B. PURPOSE AND USE OF THIS EIR I The proposed expansion project would require a new Use Permit from the County. Therefore, the I County of San Joaquin, Department of Community Development,is the CEQA Lead Agency for this project. This EIR will need to be certified by the county as complete and adequate prior to approval of the County Use Permit. s In addition, the Forward Landfill is operating under existing County Environmental Health Division, Regional Water Quality Control Board, Air Pollution Control District,Manteca-Lathrop Fire Department, and Integrated Waste Management Board permits. Those permits would require revisions, or new permits would need to be obtained by Forward, to permit the proposed expansion. This EIR may be used by those CEQA Responsible Agencies in their permit approval actions. i C. APPROACH t � This is a Project-level EIR on the Forward Landfill Expansion Project. Many of the issues addressed in this document were addressed previously in the 2002 Consolidated Forward Landfill Project EIR. Where applicable, those discussions are reiterated and updated in this document. Because the existing Consolidated Forward Landfill Use Permit was reviewed in the 2002 EIR, this document uses