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STAFF REPORT ' Revisions of Approved Actions Quarry Excavation and Environmental Impact Report Application Information Owner: Aggregates, Inc. Applicant: Munn &Perkins File Number: QX-89-0002/PA-0900114 Location: Located on the south side of River Road, at Harrold Avenue, in Escalon Address: 26292 E. River Road, Escalon General Plan: A/G &OS/RC Community: None Zoning: AG-40 APN: 247-220-18&19 Project Size: 142.58 acres Parcel Size: 197.31 acres Water Supply: Well Sewage Disposal: Septic Storm Drainage: On-site 100-Year Flood: Yes Williamson Act: No Supervisorial District: 4 Staff: John Funderburg CEQA Determination: Environmental Impact Report(EIR) Project Description This is a request for a Revisions of Approved Actions application and an Environmental Impact Report to amend Ordinance Development Requirement No. 4.of a previously approved quarry excavation permit (OX-89-0002) as follows: Hours of Operation: With the exception of periods of declared National, State, or County emergency, daily operations shall be restricted to the period between 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. The extended hours of 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. will be permitted only for projects that contain specifications that limit work to nighttime hours. The number of extended nights will not exceed 125 nights per year provided there are no unexpected delays in construction work Nighttime work will be limited to the asphalt batch plant loaders trucks including a water truck, and scale house The crushing of rock and excavation activities will not be permitted between the nighttime hours of 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. The Revisions of Approved Actions request will not remove any of the existing previously approved conditions of approval including the Reclamation Plan. Certification of the EIR An Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) was originally prepared for the proposed Revisions of Approved Application. However when neighboring properties expressed additional concerns over noise and odor it was determined that the project had the potential to result in potentially significant, adverse environmental impacts and an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was prepared. This EIR is prepared as a project-level EIR pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15161. This type of EIR focused on the direct and reasonably foreseeable indirect changes in the environment resulting from a change in operational hours. The EIR addressed the following issues: visual and lighting; transportation and traffic; air quality and climate change and noise. Each of these issues for which potentially significant impacts were identified is discussed in Attachment "B" of the staff report "Findings of Significant Environmental Impacts" identified in the Project Environmental Impact Report. Issues for which significant impacts that could not be mitigated were identified, and issues that have been raised in written and oral comments are addressed in the staff report under"Discussion of Project Issues". San Joaquin County QX-89-0002/Aggregates Inc. Community Development Page 1