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Recology Green Rail Project

Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and Environmental Assessment (EA)

Scoping Meeting

Conditional Use Permit CUP2009-0001

May 16, 2012

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Scoping Meeting Purposes

• Inform the public and agencies about the project

• Inform the public and agencies about the environmental review process and additional opportunities for input

• Solicit input regarding the scope of the Joint Environmental Impact Report (EIR) / Environmental Assessment (EA)

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CEQA Objectives

• To inform decision makers and the public about the potential significant environmental effects of proposed activities

• To identify ways to avoid or reduce environmental damage

• To prevent environmental damage by requiring implementation of feasible alternatives or mitigation measures

• To disclose to the public reasons for agency approval of projects with significant environmental effects

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NEPA Objectives

• Provide agencies with supplemental legal authority to address environmental issues

• Requires disclosure of environmental information• Leads to resolution of environmental problems• Fosters intergovernmental coordination and

cooperation• Enhances public participation in government planning

and decision making

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CEQA Document Flowchart

Initial Study

Potentially significant impacts?

Mitigate to a less-than-

significant level?

Prepare EIR

Negative Declaration

Mitigated Negative

Declaration

No

Yes

Yes

No

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Scoping Process

• Previous March 17, 2011 CEQA Initial Study Scoping Meeting Inform public about the project and receive comments All comments from Initial Study Scoping meeting will be considered

• Joint Environmental Impact Report (EIR) / Environmental Assessment (EA) will be prepared

• Notice of Preparation (NOP) of Joint EIR/EA (April 20, 2012) 30-day comment period starting April 21, 2012

• Submit comments in person tonight and/or in writing

• NOP comments due May 21, 20126

Scoping Process

• Submit written comments by May 21st to:

Wendy Hartman, Planning DirectorYuba County Planning Department

915 8th Street, Suite 123 Marysville, CA 95901

Email: WHartman@co.yuba.ca.us

(Be sure that your contact information is included)

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Environmental Review Process

• Draft EIR/EA 45-day public review and comment period• Detailed information/disclosure document

• Draft EIR/EA public hearing before Planning Commission

• Preparation of Final EIR/EA• Includes responses to substantive environmental comments

made during review period• Includes revisions resulting from comments

• Public hearing(s) on Final EIR/EA and Project before Planning Commission

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Potential Environmental Effect Topics

• Aesthetics• Agricultural Resources• Air Quality & Greenhouse Gas

Emissions• Biological Resources• Cultural Resources• Geology & Soils• Hazards & Hazardous Materials• Hydrology & Water Quality• Land Use• Mineral Resources

• Noise• Socioeconomics, Population &

Housing• Public Services• Recreation• Transportation & Circulation• Utilities• Energy• Environmental Justice• Cumulative Impacts• Growth-Inducing Impacts

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Project Description Components

1. Recology Green Rail Project Improvements

2. Amendments to:• Conditional Use Permit (CUP) No. 92-06 • Solid Waste Facility Permit (SWFP) No. 58-AA-001

3. Other related permits

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Recology Green Rail Project Improvements

The following improvements and facilities would be used to transport solid waste from the City and County of San Francisco to the Ostrom Road Landfill in Yuba County:

• Recology Ostrom Road Rail Spur and Unloading Facility• Beale Air Force Base Rail Spur Improvements• Union Pacific Rail Road (UPRR) Rail Wye Improvements• UPRR Oakland Rail Yard Improvements• Recology San Francisco Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling

Center Improvements

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Amendments to CUP and SWFP

• Clarify existing tonnage and truck limits (3,000 tons/day and 170 trucks/day, respectively) in the permits apply only to waste disposed of in the Ostrom Road Landfill (“Refuse”)

• Clarify tonnage of materials brought to the Landfill for alternative daily cover, soil amendments, road-bed or other beneficial reuse activities (BRM) – and the trucks used to transport that BRM do not count against those limits

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Public and Agency Comments

• Fill out speaker card• Sign in on the sign-in sheet• Please state your name before speaking• Please focus comments on the scope of the EIR/EA• Additional public meeting(s) to be held where the merits of

the project will be addressed

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