PRSC Press Release Expert Arbitration Panel Noise Mitigation Insufficient 03/27/1996

SEATTLE-- An independent panel of national experts on aircraft-related noise issues has concluded that the Port of Seattle's efforts to reduce noise impacts from Sea-Tac Airport are not sufficient to meet the conditions imposed by the Puget Sound Regional Council for authorization of the third runway. The three-member panel's conclusion was a split decision, with two members finding that the Port has not sufficiently reduced noise impacts, and one member, Panel Chair Scott Lewis, finding that "the Port has met its burden." The majority concluded, "Although the Port of Seattle has scheduled, pursued and achieved an impressive array of noise abatement ·and mitigation programs, the Port has not shown a reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts sufficient to satisfy the noise reduction condition" imposed by the Regional Council. In reaching their conclusions, panel members Scott Lewis, a Boston · attorney, Dr. William Bowlby, a noise expert from Vanderbilt University, and Martha Langelan, an economist and consultant to the U.S. Department of Transportation and Civil Aeronautics Board, completed their involvement in a process initiated as a result of action nearly three years ago by the Regional Council. The Council, as the region's growth and transportation planning agency under federal and state laws, decided in April 1 993 that if certain conditions were met, the proposed third runway at Sea-Tac Airport was the best way to meet the region's long-term air transportation capacity needs. At that time, the Council's General Assembly, composed of elected officials from throughout the region, approved by an…

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