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REVISED NOTICE OF PREPARATION CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION PROPOSED NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REENTRY FACILITY 7150 ARCH ROAD SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RE-CIRCULATION OF EIR SCOPING NOTICE The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation(CDCR)has revised and is re-distributing the Notice of Preparation for the Draft Enviromuental Impact Report(DEIR)for the proposed Northern California Reentry Facility(NCRF)on Arch Road in San Joaquin County near Stockton,California. The original NDP was released to the public and responsible agencies for a.30-day period on September 1 S,2009. The proposed NCRF project, which would be built within the now-closed Northern California Women's Facility;would consist of a 5€30-bed secure reentry facility for inmates that are scheduled for parole to San Joaquin County,Amador County,and Calaveras County. The NCRF project site is situated just north and contiguous to the Northern California Youth Correctional Center(NCYCC)near Stockton. A revised notice was necessary to clarify the potential for additional correctional projects within close proximity of the NCRF site.. NCYCC consists of four CDCR Division of Juvenile Justice(DJJ)correctional facilities including the N.A. Chaderjian,O.H. Close, Karl Holton, and Dewitt Nelson complexes. The Karl Holton and Dewitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facilities are now closed and considered excess to DJJ's long-term housing needs.Based on the substantial reduction in the number of wards housed by DJJ it is not anticipated these facilities will be needed by DJJ in the foreseeable fiiture. However. the N.A. Chaderjian and O.H. Close are currently operating and the DJJ believes these correctional facilities will be needed for the foreseeable future. Since the release of the original NOP, there have been two developments at NCYCC that will affect the scope of the ctunulative analysis for the NCRF EIR. In rnid-October 2009 the California Prison Health Care Receiver (CPR)formally approved the California Health Care Facility at Stockton.This project involves the demolition and re-use of the Karl Holton site for anew 1.734-bed prison medical care facility that would be constructed and operated by CDCR_ This facility was the subject of an EIR that was prepared and certified by CPR prior to the approval of the subject project. Copies of all the environmental documentation for the new CPR health care S facility are available from the CDCR contact person identified in this notice. Although this project was already among the related projects to be considered in the cumulative analysis of the NCRF EIR, its approval elevates the potential innnnediacy of the combined environmental effects of the NCRF and CPR projects. CDCR also has determined there is a potential for the re-use of the former DJJ Dewitt Nelson correctional facility for a proposed 1,133-bed correctional facility that would serve inmate mental health and medical health carte needs.The new facility would involve the renovation of existing housing units at the Dewitt Nelson facility and 4 construction of some additional buildings and infrastructure. Since this proposal remains at a conceptual level of :facility planning, there are no detailed plans available for this site.However,the EIR for the NCRF project will add the Dewitt Nelson conversion project as a related project in the cumulative analysis and will address its collective environmental effects along with other cumulative projects. 0i ce there are more details on this proposal, and if CDCR formally proposes this project to bele meet California's shortage of inmate medical and mental health services,a separate environmental review process would be initiated by the department. Northern California Reentry Facility Revised Notice of Preparationllnitial Study California Department of Corrections and Rebabilbbon 1 November 2009