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iXnTM9T*T= The Forward Landfill is an active, permitted Class II and Class III disposal facility that is owned and operated by Forward, Inc. (Forward), a subsidiary of Republic Services. The landfill is located approximately seven (7) miles southeast of the City of Stockton in San Joaquin County. Forward is proposing a 7.5 acre pilot project in the Northern Borrow Area of the Landfill property. This pilot project would be limited to the 2012 canning season in San Joaquin County. The pilot project would be located in the same general area as the prior cannery waste holding area, and it would occupy slightly more area (7.5 acres as opposed to approximately 4 to 5 acres) than past holding areas (see Figure 1). The pilot would differ from prior holding operations in that cannery waste would be allowed to completely evaporate in the holding area rather than removing the partially evaporated cannery waste to the main land application area within the adjacent Forward Landfill waste management unit boundaries. Temporary soil berms, approximately 12 inches high, would be created around the pilot project area. These berms will be constructed and placed in the same manner as the berms constructed each year around the perimeter of the temporary holding area. These are also the same types of soil berms built within the adjacent waste management units to hold in cannery waste while it evaporates. The berms would be completely removed at the end of the canning season and also used as daily cover'. At the conclusion of the 2012 canning season, and after the completion of soil tests approved by the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), Forward would remove all soil in the pilot project area down to a depth approved by the RWQCB and use that contact soil as daily cover for landfill operations. Soil from the Northern Borrow Area is used as daily cover for landfill operations on an ongoing basis, so the use of the contact soil in the pilot project area for daily cover would be the same use to which borrow area soil is put as in past operations. The pilot project is necessary to enable Forward to obtain critical chemical and soil impact information required for its application to the RWQCB for a large scale direct land application of food processing waste (cannery waste). The large scale project will take place on approximately 75 -acres of the Northern Borrow Area. The pilot project will reduce the environmental impacts necessitated by the manner of past operations in the holding area, in that cannery waste would be allowed to evaporate in the holding area and would not have to be moved a second time to further evaporate in the holding areas on the waste management units—thereby reducing air emissions from heavy landfill equipment used to scoop up and move the cannery waste approximately every week. Land discharge of cannery wastes"as a soil amendment is considered a:reuse .of mate.Ciala, which aids the County in achieving`°State-mandated waste diversion goals. It is also an essential service for the cannery industry in San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties, which employees an estimated 4,000 seasonal employees for up to six months during the yearly canning season. Prior to commencing land application activities, an anti -degradation analysis is required that will include environmental sampling based on site-specific data to characterize the soil, and then again following land application and removal of the soils and cannery waste to the landfill. This Pilot Project Plan outlines the proposed area of the pilot project and the investigation methods WFORWARD LANDFILL LAND APPLICATION