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Email from Kelly R. Whiting (King County Department of Natural Resources, Water and Land Resource Division, Drainage Services Section) to Rachel McCrea (Floyd & Snider, Inc.), cc Ann Kenny and David Masters, dated March 13, 2001. Whiting provides editorial comments on draft meeting notes from a POS/Ecology 401 permit ‘process and logistics’ meeting held March 9, 2001. Comments address references to the 1998 King County Surface Water Design Manual, the role of grouped checklists in Enclosure 2 versus specific comments, the meaning of ‘NRMP comments will be informed by King County comments on the SMP,’ and reimbursement for KCR review time. Document marked AR 017652 and AR 017653, Exhibit 49.

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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.

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