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Memo dated September 20, 2001 from Roger Nye, Ecology Toxics Cleanup Program (Northwest Regional Office), to Colleen D. Bradford, Assistant State Auditor, listing eight work product submittals received from Port Of Seattle under Agreed Order #97TC-N122 (finalized May 1999). Submittals span June 1999 through October 2000 and include conceptual hydrogeological flow model presentations, Excel spreadsheet databases, model boundary presentations, quarterly groundwater level measurements for C1 (Qva) monitoring well network, and a conceptual fate and transport model presentation. Tasks 1–5 of the grant are referenced. Notes that December 1999 submittal and a possible August/September 1999 interim submittal disappeared during a public information request.

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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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