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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page III-23 Forward Inc.Landfill 2018 Expansion Project Counties, including collection and transfer trucks, self-haulers, independent recycling haulers, and tree trimming/landscaping firms. The RRF area is currently being used to transfer source-separated recyclables and for composting and other green-waste-related operations. The materials recovered from the RRF include plastic,glass, cardboard,newspapers and paper, ferrous and nonferrous metals,wood, and other nonhazardous,inert materials (such as foam). The wood waste processing operation consists of chipping incoming wood,lumber, and bulk yard wastes as an alternative fuel source for cogeneration energy facilities and other reuses or recovery such as mulch or compost. Sorting bins and wood waste stockpiles are located near the 12,000-square-foot RRF building. The area of the RRF separation area expands and contracts depending upon the amount of materials sorted and stored, and the resale market. Material received at the RRF for composting may include green waste, mixed paper, municipal solid waste (MSW), and food and agricultural waste. The end product of the composting process may be used as a topsoil amendment,mulch, or a soil conditioner for various applications. The composted material may also be used in the landfill as an alternative daily cover material. The maximum capacity of the Compost Facility depends on the composting technology employed. Forward may operate with one or a combination of composting technologies, including compost windrows turned by front end loaders, and windrow composting using a windrow tuning machine. A monthly average of 5,735 tons was composted in 2017. Forward Landfill uses certain waste materials in its beneficial reuse program as described in the JTD (SWT Engineering,2018). Subject to approval and supervision of the San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department(SJEHD),which acts as Local Enforcement Agency (LEA)for the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), materials such as preprocessed treated automobile shredder waste are substituted for"virgin" materials used as alternative daily cover (ADC). Inert materials such as concrete, rock, and asphalt are used for wet-weather roads and drainage improvements. Wood and yard waste may be processed and used for ADC. E. EXISTING LANDFILL OPERATIONS Existing operations at the Forward Landfill are described in III.E Existing Landfill Operations, pages III-16 to III-26 of the 2013 Forward Landfill Expansion Final Environmental Impact Report(FEIR), and included below. No substantial changes to existing operations at the landfill have occurred since the 2013 FEIR was prepared,with the exception of installation of an improved tire washing system at the site's main driveway, discussed under Dust,below,the land application of cannery wastes, and the start of operation of the Ameresco Landfill Gas to Energy plant, described under Air Quality Control,below. In the 2013 EIR,the tire washing system was described as part of the previously proposed project, and the Ameresco Landfill Gas to Energy plant was described as permitted but not constructed.