Third Runway Master Plan Update Improvements at Sea-Tac Airport Response to Comments EXH1244050083

PCHBPollution Control Hearings Board of the State of Washington

On December 27, 2000, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a second revised public notice concerning the Section 404 application under the Federal Clean Water Act for the proposed Master Plan Update improvements at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. This document has been prepared to provide the regulatory agencies with responses to agency and public comments concerning this application from the Port of Seattle perspective. This document is organized as follows: I. Summary (Introduction and Summary of Changes in the Port's Application Since 1999) II. General Responses to Comments Ill. Response to Agency Letters • Response to Tom Luster's Memo to Julia Patterson • Response to Muckleshoot Tribe • Response to Airport Community Coalition communities and their Technical Consultants a. Helsell Fetterman h. Columbia Biological b. Stephen Hockaday i. Northwest Hydraulics c. GeoffGosling j. Norman Wildlife Consulting d. Thomas Lane Associates k. Paschal Osborn e. GeoSyntec I. Sheldon & Associates f. Azous Environmental m. Water Resource Consulting g. BioAnalysts n. Smith & Lowney IV. Responses to Citizens, Groups and Elected Officials - letters, emails, faxes, hearing cards and transcript V. Earlier Public Notice Comments and Responses (Prior to 1999 Public Notice) • Overview of how new material changes earlier responses • Earlier Public Comments and Responses Sections II through IV respond from the Port's perspective to comments received since the 1999 public notice. Section V contains the Port of Seattle's responses to all comments received prior to the 1999 notice. It is important to note that the responses to comments in…
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