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i Potential Permits and Approvals Required: " ► CDCR: Overall project approval San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.Authority to construct and permit to operate ► Regional Water Quality Control Board: General construction permit City of Stockton: Potential annexation of site to assure consistency of service area boundaries. The City utility department is already planning to extend service to the NCYCC complex because of localized groundwater contamination associated with the nearby Austin Road Landfill. ► Local Agency Formation Commission: Boundary changes to potentially annex site to City of Stockton for water service(see above.CDCR is not proposing annexation.Action, if necessary,would be initiated by the City of Stockton to assure consistency of district service boundaries.) PROJECT PURPOSE AND NEED Currently_ 74,000 parolees are returned to custody at an expense of approximately$450 million annually. Parole violators are returned to custody for an average of 1531 days. Incarceration as the primary punishment for minor parole violations does not appear to discourage new parole violations, does not provide parole violators with the necessary skills to remain in the community,does not reduce the'cost to the taxpayer, and does not reduce the risk- to iskto public safety for an extended period of time.Both the Governor's office and the Legislature recognize the need for change to more effectively supervise offenders and fulfill the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's(CDCR)connnitment to public safety. To specifically authorize the first secure community reentry facility in California at the former Northern California Women's Facility(NCW"F)and correctional officer training academy,Governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 943 on September 25,2007. which subsequently became legislation(California Penal Code § 6275). This law authorizes the use of the former NCWF as a reentry facility to house adult male inmates during the last 12 months of their respective sentences prior to parole, and to provide these inmates special programs to better prepare them for return to the community of their last legal residence_ PROJECT BACKGROUND In February 2008 a Mitigated Negative Declaration(MND)for the proposed project was released for public review. CDCR approved the project in April 2005. At the time the MND was prepared and the project approved, the site was used as a correctional officer training academy. The California Correctional and Peace Officers Association(CCPOA)challenged the adequacy of the MND. On March 12, 2009. the Superior Corot of San Joaquin Comity found that the environmental analysis was not adequate and ordered CDCR to set aside its approval of the MND and the project. In May 2009, CDCR rescinded and set aside all resolutions.. decisions, and order's approving the MND(State Clearinghouse Number 2008021233)for the proposed Northern California Reentry Facility. CDCR has decided to respond to the Superior Cour't's ruling by re-analyzing the potential environmental consequences of the proposed project in an EIR. The project remains substantially the same as described in the MND. The bed count would remain the same.The project would house up to 500 inmates and employ an estimated 350--400 staff. Since the time the MND was released, the correctional training facility has closed and the site is currently not in use. The current condition of the project site and surrounding area (at the time this NOP is released)will comprise the baseline used for the EIR's environmental.analysis. Revised Notice of Preparationllnitial Study Northern California Reentry Facility November 2009 4 Califomia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation