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create, maintain and/or support hundreds of jobs associated with the County's construction industry. F.2. Tax Revenue Approval of the Project would result in continued property tax and the potential for additional sales tax revenue to San Joaquin County. F.3. Regional Effects By providing a local source of asphalt and rubberized asphalt for highway construction work, the proposed project would reduce reliance material produced and shipped outside of the area. By providing local aggregate materials, the Project would avoid additional fuel consumption related to regional hauling. This in turn, would reduce future emissions related to criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gases. Per Section 15093(a) of the CEQA Guidelines, a lead agency may consider region-wide or statewide environmental benefits when determining whether to approve a project which would result in unavoidable adverse effects. G. STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS This section of the findings addresses the requirements in CEQA Guidelines Sections 15091(a)(3) and 15093. It requires the lead agency to balance the benefits of a proposed project against its unavoidable significant impacts and to determine whether the impacts are acceptably overridden by the project benefits (outlined in Section F above). As described herein,project- level unavoidable significant impacts would occur in the Air Quality/Climate Change and Noise categories. The Commission finds that the previously stated benefits of the for the Munn &Perkins Quarry Excavation Permit as contained in the proposed action and described in section F, and described in the benefits letter from the applicant, outweigh the unavoidable significant adverse environmental impacts as discussed in Section D.3. The benefits of the Project, as cited in Section F, are hereby determined to be, in themselves and independently of the other project benefits, a basis for overriding all unavoidable project-level and cumulative environmental impacts identified in the EIR and in these findings. The Commission's findings set forth in the preceding sections, and in the Draft EIR, the Final EIR, and public testimony,have identified all of the adverse project-level and cumulative environmental impacts and the feasible mitigation measures which can substantially lessen or avoid impacts. The Commission also finds that a reasonable range of alternatives was considered in the EIR and in this document (Section E) and that no feasible alternatives substantially lessening project impacts are available for adoption. The Commission finds that the project's benefits are substantial, and overrides the unavoidable impacts of the project as discussed in Section D.3 above, including: Unavoidable Air Quality/Climate Change and Noise Impacts. 686139-3 19