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ATTACHMENT 3 Excerpts from: SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN AND AMONG THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA,THE CITY OF LIVERMORE, THE CITY OF PLEASANTON, SIERRA CLUB, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RECYCLING ASSOCIATION, ALTAMONT LANDOWNERS AGAINST RURAL MISMANAGEMENT AND WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY,;INC. THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is entered into on and effecti e as of December 5, 1999,between and among THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA,a Califo 'a county (the "County"), THE CITY OF LIVERMORE, a municipal corporation ("Live ore"), THE CITY OF PLEASANTON,a municipal corporation ("Pleasanton"), SIE' ' CLUB, a California nonprofit membership corporation("Sierra Club"), NORTHERN CALI I ORNIA RECYCLING ASSOCIATION, a California professional trade association ("NC' "), ALTAMONT LANDOWNERS AGAINST RURAL MISMANAGEMENT, a Neva. : corporation("ALARM"), and WASTE MANAGEMENT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, INC., California corporation("WMAC"). The County, Livermore, Pleasanton, Sierra Club, NC' • ,ALARM,and WMAC are sometimes each referred to as a"Party" and collectively referr-. to as "Parties". RECITALS i A. WMAC owns and operates the Altamont Landfill and • , ource Recovery Facility ("AL• • ") loca -d at 10840 Altamont Pass Road in Alameda Cou. . Prior to December 1996, WMA had opera the ALRRF pursuant to Conditional Use P- it C-6395 (the "Existing Permi ') and other pn• use permits. Currently,the ALRRF .. cepts franchise and non-franchise waste, and franchise w. • is accepted for disposal from • eda County jurisdictions and from the Ci and County of San rancisco. B. WMAC applied t. e County in 1 1 for a new use permit to expand the ALRRF by ad.ing up to 196 million tons o .isposal ca.. ity,expanding daily tonnage from a permitted level .f 11,150 tons per day to 20,365 •ns . day, and expanding the area fern which solid waste s accepted for disposal. On May , 1996, the County's Zoning Administrator certified a Final nvironmental Impact Report (re ren I as State Clearinghouse #92083047) and appro ed Conditional Use Permit C- 512 (the " ••6 Permit"), which provided for a reduced expan ion of ALRRF including 1 million tons o •1,Q* posal capacity and an overall requirement that th volume of wastes acce ed for disposal shall nizit xceed 11,150 tons per day as calcul ted on an annual bas' (260 operating days per year . The actions of the County's Zoning I Admi 'sfrator were appe ed to and upheld by the County's B d of Supervisors (the"Board") on De ember 5, 1996 ough the adoption of Resolution No. R- -284, which Resolution impos-d additional on the approved expansion and reduce lire expansion to 80 millio tons. 1 Final Altamont Settlement Agreement