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As a member of the Hazardous Materials Subcommittee, the <br />City's Chemical specialist concurs with the opinion of that <br />committee that "Good" does not necessarily mean "Safe" and <br />that a finding made by the appropriate agencies (Highway <br />Patrol, Calif. Dept. of Transportation, etc.) be added to the <br />inclusionary criteria that a facilities access roadway is <br />safe and does not constitute a danger to the public or <br />environment from heavy truck traffic. <br /> <br />Planning staff feels that the intent of such a finding is <br />already addressed in the CHWMP in the conditional criteria. <br />The purpose of the inclusionary criteria is to pinpoint <br />potential sites. Risk analysis and "weeding out" of sites <br />takes place when the exclusionary and conditional criteria <br />are applied. If performance standards are applied too early <br />in the siting process, many potential sites in populated <br />areas, near waste generators, may be unnecessarily <br />eliminated. This could result in facilities moving farther <br />and farther away from source production, and would mean more <br />transportation of waste, potentially through Pleasanton. <br />Staff believes the siting criteria must remain "loose" enough <br />to allow siting facilities along the 1-880, I-S0 corridor. <br /> <br />Groundwater <br /> <br />There has also been some discussion between agencies <br />reviewing the Plan as to whether or not groundwater criteria <br />should be exclusionary for transfer, treatment, and <br />incineration facilities as it is for residual repositories. <br />The feeling is that although residual repositories by design <br />are at greater risk to leak waste directly into the ground, <br />spills are equally as likely to take place at other types of <br />facilities. Once a spilled hazardous substance enters the <br />groundwater, there may be no reclamation. <br /> <br />Again, Planning staff believes that too many potential sites <br />may be eliminated if this criteria were made exclusionary <br />rather than conditional. A good portion of west Alameda <br />County lies over and relies on groundwater resources. This <br />is also where the the bulk of waste generators are located. <br />The City of Pleasanton would again face the possibility that <br />hazardous waste facilities would be required to locate <br />farther away from the sources of waste, making it necessary <br />for more waste to travel by way of the City's highways. <br /> <br />SR:88:299 <br /> <br /> <br />