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, crnfA Responses to Environmental Checklist For CEQA Compliance The City of Santa Ana and OCSD would provide wastewater service to the proposed project. The project area is currently improved with wastewater sewer facilities. Implementation of the project would not increase wastewater demands in the project area over current condition. The wastewater demands of the project would be accounted for in the City's Urban Water Management Plan. Additionally, implementation of the project would not increase the amount of surface water runoff currently generated from the project site. The project would not require the construction of new drainage facilities. The City of Santa Ana Water Department would provide domestic water service for the proposed project. Implementation of the proposed project would not increase water demand within the project area over the current condition. The proposed project is consistent with the General Plan and water demands are accounted for in the City's Urban Water Management Plan. F. Is the project served by a landfill with sufficient permitted capacity to accommodate the project's solid waste disposal needs? G. Comply with federal, state and local statutes and regulations related to solid waste? Less Than Significant Impact The City of Santa Ana would provide solid waste collection services to the project site. Solid waste is transported to the Environmental Service transfer station in Irvine, and then taken to the Bowerman Landfill. The Bowerman Landfill is permitted to accept 8,500 tons per day and is anticipated to close in year 2024. The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (AB 939) mandates all cities and counties in California to divert fifty percent of solid waste generated from landfill disposal. As part of the General Plan, the City of Santa Ana has prepared a Source Reduction and Recycling Element, which describe how the City complies with the mandates of AB 939. In order to comply with the requirements of AB 939, the City has implemented several waste reduction programs including green waste programs, source reduction programs, and recycling programs. The proposed project would not significantly increase the demand for solid waste disposal. Compliance with the City's recycling program would reduce long-term solid waste disposal service impacts to a level considered less than significant. XVII. Project Alternatives See Exhibit A (attached) for a discussion on project alternatives. XVIII. Mandatory Findings of Significance A. Does the project have the potential to degrade the quality of the environment, substantially reduce the habitat of a fish or wildlife species, cause a fish or wildlife population to drop below self-sustaining levels, threaten to eliminate a plant or animal community, reduce the number or restrict the range of a rare or endangered plant or animal or eliminate important examples of the major periods of California history or prehistory. 75C-107 14