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City of SeaTac City of Des Moines ��������� FHW A-W A-RDEIS-95-2 SR 509: Corridor Completion/1-5/South Access Road King County, SeaTac, Des Moines, Kent, and Federal Way, Washington NEPA/SEPA Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Section 4(0 Evaluation Submitted Pursuant to 42 USC 4332(2)(c), 23 USC 138, and 49 USC 303, and RCW 43.21C, WAC 197- and WAC 468-12. by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHW A); the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT); the Port of Seattle, King County, City of SeaTac, and City of Des Moines in cooperation with: SR 509/South Access Road Executive Committee This action complies with Executive Order 11990, Protection of Wetlands; and Executive Order 12898, Environmental Justice in Minority and Low.-Income Populations. ttls-!o '- ~te of Approval /~ /o~ ~a. ... c..~ Date of Approval StePbeJlB tler, Dir. of Planning, J~ · ~oirJCdJdYj Date of~ Paul Toliver, Dir. of Transportation, Kin unty Date of Approval s may be contacted for additional information concerning t is document: Jim Leonard Urban Transportation and Environmental Engineer Federal Highway Administration 711 South Capitol Way, Suite 501 Olympia, Washington 98501 Telephone (360) 753-9480 Jerry Alb Director of Environmental Services W A State Dept of Transportation 310 Maple Park A venue SE P.O. Box 47331 Olympia, Washington 98504-7331 Telephone (360) 705-7480 The Federal Highway Administration, the Washington State Department of Transportation, the Port of Seattle, King County, and the Cities of Des Moines and SeaTac propose to improve regional highway connections with an extension of SR 509…

the Port of Seattle must have to build the third runway. The runway CANNOTbe built until the Port obtains this Clean Water Certificate and a separate Wetlands Fill Permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. coming in 2002 The Pollution Control Hearings Board March 18, 2002 Hearing on the merits of the Clean Water Certificate Department of Ecology June2002 NPDES Permit Decision US Army Corps of Engineers: Date unknown Wetlands fill404 permit il : Serious Environmental -CIS There are serious questions on three major environmental issues: 1. Wetlands impacts and mitigation, 2. In-stream flow for fish habitat, and 3. Contaminated fill material imported for construction. There is a great deal at stake. The project would affect three watersheds, destroy 20 acres of critical wetlands and affect another 80, would impact an aquifer and a regional waterfront park built around Des Moines Creek The environmental health of five south county cities with 150, 000 residents is at risk Beautifi<L MilLer Creek in winter. wasta, ··-· We don't need the third runway, an expensive solution in search of a problem. Recent FAA data (before Sept. 11) on weather delays and declining air traffic show that the current infrastructure can handle the demand for the next 20 years. A billion dollars for a dangerous runway design that will increase the risk of runway incursions and reduce the efficiency of the existing runways doesn't make sense. Can the Port afford the third runway? Why won't the Port release a current budget showing the…

The proposal to build a conveyor belt across the Des Moines Beach and up through Des Moines Creek is back. Des Moines residents protested this proposal several years ago, and in 1999 the City Council voted unanimously to reject it. What's changed? Back in 1999, Wescot Industries proposed the following - barge arsenic-laden fill material from Maury Island to the Des Moines Beach, where it would be transferred to a conveyor belt and moved up to Sea-Tac Airport for the Port's Third Runway project. Have the people of Des Moines changed their minds about this misguided project? Have they decided that they would like a conveyor belt running through the heart of the community, putting Des Moines Creek at risk, turning Des Moines Beach Park into an industrial area? Why would a City Council, on record opposing the Third Runway project, give the green light to a project whose sole purpose is to facilitate construction of the runway? What To Do? Call (or e-mail) your Des Moines City Council members and tell them not to allow this project to proceed. Tell them it was a bad idea then, it's a bad idea now. No conveyor belts through Des Moines! "No" means "No". Don Wasson (Mayor) Richard Benjamin Maggie Steenrod Gary W. Petersen Susan White Bob Sheckler Scott Thomasson 206.878.1022 206.824.2971 206.991.3487 206.824.4679 253.941.4112 206.870.1904 206.824.5233 Normandy Park Temporary Barge Transfer F acilitv .-~-- dwasson@cityofdesmoines.com rben j amin@cityofdesmoines. com msteenrod@cityofdesmoines.com gpetersen@cityofdesmoines.com swhite@cityofdesmoines.com bsheckler@cityofdesmoines.com sthomasson@cityofdesmoines.com Des Moines

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…

The Newsletter of the Regional Commission on Airport Affairs Vol. 6, No. 4 Spring 2001 IN BRIEF �������� ��� �������� ���� ��� ������������ �� Not once, not twice, but three times, the Port of Seattle, owner-operator of Sea-Tac Airport, has sought official permission to destroy wetlands with its third-runway construction project west of the existing airport. And three times the community has turned out in great strength to tell the regulat- ing agencies that this is a bad idea—bad for the environment, bad for people—and wasteful. Each of the first two applications had to be withdrawn, re-written, and resubmitted, because of fatal flaws. On 26 and 27 January, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Ecology held hearings on the latest proposal submitted by the Port. Hundreds of residents in attendance heard nearly one hundred speakers tell the agencies about their concerns with the proposal. Most of the 117 speakers were in opposition, citing numerous is- sues—airport safety, damage to local streams, con- cerns with the environmental mitigation plans, lack of community mitigation, and, over and over again, the problems posed by the four vertical embank- ment walls. —Against— In their five-minute comments, a stream of residents and local elected officials carried a few basic messages to the two regulatory agencies. * The environmental planning is questionable and incomplete in many details, especially as to ���������� ��� ��� ���� ���� ������� �� ���� �� �������� �� �� �������� ������ ���� ��� ��� ��� ���� ��� �� �������� �…

King County Department of Natural Resources, Water and Land Resources Division: David Masters, M.U.R.P. - Project Management, Land Use Planning David Hartley, Ph.D., P.E. - Hydrology, Modeling Alan Johnson, M.S. - Fisheries, Stream Ecology Aquatic Resources Consultants Clint Loper, P.E. - Engineering Derek Booth, Ph.D. - Geology Susan Kaufman-Una, M.S. - Water Quality Kenneth Ludwa, M.S. - Water Quality, Field Sampling Katie Morrill - Editing, Report Preparation Wendy Gable - Graphics PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM: Don Monaghan - City of SeaTac Tim Heydon - City of Des Moines Loren Reinhold - City of Des Moines Tom Hubbard, - Port of Seattle Gary Minton - Port of Seattle COOPERATING AGENCIES: Ken Kase - Midway Sewer District Roy Moore - Tyee Golf Course ADDITIONAL SUPPORT: Phil Schnieder - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Rod Malcom - Muckleshoot Indian Tribe