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A November 15, 2000 letter from the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Northwest Regional Office to Paul Agid, Senior Environmental Program Manager at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, providing written notification of completed and incomplete items under Agreed Order 97TC-N122. Attached is an internal checklist memo from Roger Nye dated November 2, 2000, detailing the status of 13 tasks stipulated in the Agreed Order, including groundwater research, contamination identification, flow modeling, and pollution prevention actions for UST systems. Several tasks are noted as complete while others remain incomplete due to unresolved issues between the Port and Ecology.

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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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