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Now, several alternative sources of fill for the project were considered. The Technical Report only evaluates one of those, which is located in the Bay. That is about two to three miles offshore of Bay Farm Island and it is termed East Bay Shoals. Fill from that site could be dredged hydraulically and transported down to the SFO construction site by a temporary pipeline placed on the bottom of the Bay. Now fill is brought from outside the Bay. It would come in by ship or hopper dredge. And it may be necessary to stockpile that material in the Bay at what is called a re-handling basin, and then it would be picked up by hydraulic dredge and transported by a pipeline to the construction site. Now if the fill were to come from outside of the Bay in combination with using the East Bay Shoals Borrow Site, then that re-handling basin would probably be located at the East Bay Shoals. If all of the fill for the project were to come from outside the Bay, the re-handling basin would probably be located here at San Bruno Shoals. Construction of the project -- first of all, to reach that sand fill, young Bay mud would have to be removed from the East Bay Shoals Borrow Site. In addition, some young Bay mud would have need to be dredged from the SFO construction site.