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Page 3 SUMMARY a PROJECT LOCATION �i The City of Stockton's 182.5-acre Austin Road Landfill has been operated by the City since 1960 to dispose of a major portion of the City's Municipal Solid Waste. The landfill is located east of Austin Road and two miles south of Mariposa Road,outside the contiguous city limits of Stockton to the southeast The non-contiguous area containing the landfill was annexed by the City. r ORIGINALLY PROPOSED LANDFILL EXPANSION PROJECT 3 In the early.1990s,the City of Stockton initiated a project to expand the landfill's capacity. The City developed a plan for expansion onto 219 acres adjacent to the existing landfill,including a diversion of t the North Branch of the South Fork of Little Johns Creek. The City obtained the necessary permits and completed and certified an Environmental Impact Report on the proposed ex ,I pr po passion on September 6, 1994(State Clearinghouse No. 90020718),but the landfill expansion was never implemented. The 1994 EIR analyzed a full range of environmental topics and identified three significant unmitigable impacts: + visual quality (cumulative contribution to disruption of surrounding community) • cumulative air quality impacts • conversion of agricultural lands to industrial use CURRENTLY PROPOSED PROJECT The City of Stockton proposes to sell the permitted Austin Road Landfill (including the expansion option and the permits already obtained)to a private firm. The proposed expansion project is the same as that Fanalyzed in the certified 1994 EIR It includes vertical landfill expansion(additional waste disposed on top of the existing permitted landfill area),horizontal expansion of the landfill onto the existing borrow pit and an additional 73 acres south of the existing landfill, a new borrow pit and space for future composting and Materials Recovery Facility north of the existing landfill, 17 acres of wildlife habitat and F. floodplain,and diversion of the North Branch of the South Fork of Little Johns Creek, which currently flows between the proposed landfill expansion area and the existing landfill. When transferred to private ownership,the landfill will revert to the jurisdiction of San Joaquin County, and will require a County Use Permit, General Plan Amendment°and zone reclassification. It also will require changes in the City of Stockton's General Plan land use designation and zoning. The other required permits for the landfill expansion would remain in effect. F" II ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW REQUIREMENTS FOR CURRENTLY PROPOSED PROJECT � i The California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA)requires that the Lead Agency evaluate changes in background conditions to determine their significance with respect to potential environmental effects. The County of San Joaquin,Department of Community Development is acting as Lead Agency for the environmental review of the project,and initiated a two-stage review of the changesin the project setting + to determine if new or changed environmental impacts have resulted. i First,an Initial Study was prepared updating the 1994 EIR The Initial Study found that, for most of the environmental topics in the 1994 EIR,there were no substantial changes in background conditions, and that the EIR's analysis remained valid. The Initial Study confirmed the EIR's findings of significant t .t GRASS'ETTI ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING F