Hilmar Cheese Company Facility Expansion Project

Hilmar Cheese Company Facility Expansion Project

This conditional use permit is for the addition of new whey processing operations for an infant nutrition product. HCC proposes to manufacture a value-added infant nutrition powder from their existing whey and to produce pharmaceutical lactose from their existing lactose product. The manufacture of the infant nutrition powder will require installation of a new 16,300 sf processing and dryer building and the production of pharmaceutical lactose will require the addition of a 5,700 sf dryer building. To support these activities, HCC requires a new 2,200 sf utility building for steam, a 2,300 sf building for refrigeration equipment, and a new 22,000 sf dry product warehouse to store the packaged product prior to shipment. HCC is proposing to construct a new administrative building, totaling 42,000 sf, along Lander Avenue.

Merced

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 10 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), Delta Protection Commission, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Redding Region 5 (RWQCB)

California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Redding Region 5 (RWQCB)

Industrial

Use Permit

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Septic System, Solid Waste, Transportation