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• ~ . <br />2024. The Bowerman Landfill is permitted to accept 8,500 tons <br />per day and is anticipated to close in year 2024. <br />The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (AB 939) <br />mandates all cities and counties in California to divert fifty <br />percent of solid waste generated from landfill disposal. As part <br />of the General Plan, the City of Santa Ana has prepared a Source <br />Reduction and Recycling Element, which describe how the City <br />complies with the mandates of AB 939. In order to comply with <br />the requirements of AB 939, the City has implemented. several <br />waste reduction programs including green waste programs, source <br />reduction programs, and recycling programs. <br />According to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, a <br />standard generation rate for institutional uses would be .0013 <br />tons per year per square foot. The proposed project would have a <br />solid waste disposal demand of .115 tons per day. The increase <br />in solid waste would be considered minor in comparison to the <br />2,700 tons of solid waste taken to the transfer station daily. <br />Additionally, the proposed project would be required to comply <br />with the City's recycling program for residential uses to reduce <br />the demand for solid waste disposal. Compliance with the City's <br />• recycling program would reduce long-term solid waste disposal <br />service impacts to a level considered less than significant. <br />XVII. MANDATORY FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANCE <br />A. Does the project have the, potential to degrade the quality <br />of the environment, substantially reduce the habitat of a <br />fish or wildlife species, cause a fish or wildlife <br />population to drop below self-sustaining levels, threaten <br />to eliminate a plant or animal community, reduce the number <br />or restrict the range of a rare or endangered plant or <br />animal or eliminate important examples of the major periods <br />of California history or prehistory. <br />Less Than Significant Impact <br />Implementation of the proposed project would not substantially <br />reduce the habitat of fish or wildlife species, in that no fish <br />or wildlife populations are known to exist on the project site. <br />Additionally, mitigation measures have been identified to reduce <br />potential impacts to unknown cultural resources to a level <br />considered less than significant. <br />• B. Does the project have impacts that are individually limited <br />but cumulatively considerable? <br />3U ~~e~F~`T3 <br />