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RESOLUTION NO. 35-2007
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION ADOPTING CEQA ADDENDEM TO THE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE SSF
SCAVENGER COMPANY MATERIALS RECOVERY
FACILITY AND TRANSFER STATION TO INCREASE THE
AMOUNT OF MUNICIP AL WASTE AND RECYCLABLE
MATERIAL IN THE SOLID WASTE FACILITY PERMIT
WHEREAS, in February 1999, the City of South San Francisco certified the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR), adopted ,Ute appropriate zoning amendments and,
approved the Use Permit for the Blue Line Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station
(MRF/TS); and
WHEREAS, the Project Description for the 1999 EIR was for a facility handling an
operational capacity of2,148 tons per day (TPD) for an 11 to 13 hour work day, and with a
24-hour design capacity of 4,488 TPD. The facility was initially permitted to receive a daily
maximum of 1,250 TPD; and
WHEREAS, the 1999 EIR identified several significant impacts affecting Land Use,
Aesthetics, Public Health pnd Safety, Traffic and Transportation, Air Quality, Noise,
Geology and Seismicity, Hydrology and Water Quality, and Biological Resources. The
facility was built as proposed with mitigation measures that reduced any potential impacts to
less than significant. The EIR also recognized the increase in waste generation and the need
to increase the permitted tonnage over time; and
WHEREAS, in compliance with the requirements of the California Environmental
Quality Act Guidelines sections 15162 and 15164 and Public Resources Code sections
21166, an Addendum to the prior environmental analysis adopted for the SSF Scavenger
Company Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station was prepared for the proposal to
change the Solid Waste Facility Permit .to increase the amount of municipal waste and
recyclable material, including the [MISSING TEXT], and which is incorporated by reference
and attached hereto; and
WHEREAS, the Addendum concludes, based on substantial evidence on the record,
that the proposed project changes will not result in any new significant effects, or
substantially increase the severity of the previously identified significant effects, nor is there
any new information of substantial importance resulting in new significant impacts or
affecting previously identified impacts, mitigation measures, or alternatives; and
WHEREAS, the City Council considered the Addendum to the Environmental Impact
Report for the SSF Scavenger Company Materials Recovery and Transfer Station to increase
the amount of municipal waste and recyclable material in the Solid Waste Facility Permit,
along with the previously adopted 1999 EIR, and the Council agrees with the conclusions
reached in the Addendum.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South
San Francisco that the City Council hereby finds as follows:
1. The proposed changes to the Solid Waste Facility Permit will not result in any
new significant effects, or substantially increase the severity of the previously
identified significant effects, nor is there any new information of substantial
importance resulting in new significant impacts or affecting previously
identified impacts, mitigation measures, or alternatives; therefore under
CEQA the City nee~ not prepare a subsequent or supplemental environmental
impact report; and
2. The Addendum to the EIR has been prepared III accordance with the
provisions of CEQA. ""
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council does hereby adopt the
Addendum to the Environmental Impact Report for the SSF Scavenger Company Materials
Recovery and Transfer Station to increase the amount of municipal waste and recyclable
material in the Solid Waste Facility Permit.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced and adopted
by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting held on the 25th
day of April 2007 by the following vote:
AYES:
Councilmembers Mark N. Addiego, Joseph A. Fernekes and Karvl Matsumoto,
Vice Mavor Pedro Gonzalez and Mavor Richard A. Garbarino
";.I.'.
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
Deputy City Clerk