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Terminal 108 – Prior to restoration Terminal 108 – After Restoration Terminal 108 Terminal 105 Terminal 105 – After Restoration Terminal 105 - 1998 Lower Duwamish Waterway Cleanup Lower Duwamish Waterway Environmental Dredging near T-117 LDW Carbon amendment pilot study (top) Active maritime waterway (bottom) Terminal 117 Shoreline prior to cleanup Terminal 117 Shoreline after cleanup, preparing for restoration Terminal 117 Turning Basin #3 Turning Basin #3 - 1995 Turning Basin #3 – After Restoration Stormwater Management Stormwater Treatment system and pump stations at Terminal 108 Stormwater Community Engagement Public Engagement Community Engagement Community Engagement Elizabeth Leavitt Environment and Sustainability Christina Billingsley Environmental Engagement, Public Affairs April 10, 2018 Andrew Schiffer Georgetown Resident Tim Hamlin Region 10 EPA What is environmental justice? • EPA identifies environmental justice to be achieved when everyone has: – the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards, and – equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work. Environmental equity is a piece of the puzzle to address social equity. Environmental Equity is a key Port strategy • Century Agenda Commitments • Energy & Sustainability Committee Recommendations • Commission involvement • Near-Port community engagement • Port authority to manage impacts in community • Equity Leader hiring process Addressing environmental equity fulfills numerous Port priorities. Equity Duwamish Valley is a hub of industrial activity, resulting in overburdened communities. Equality: sameness Equity: equal access Addressing cause of inequity Project elements • EPA-funded technical assistance • Local…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]