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adopting the Sea-Tac Area Update Area Zoning; amending K.C.C. 20.12.240 and Ordinance No. 2883, Section 1, Ordinance No. 3530, Section 1, and Ordinance No. 5401, Section 1, as amended. PREAMBLE: For the purpose of effective areawide planning and regulation, the King County Council makes the following legislative findings: 1. The Sea-Tac area is an appropriate geographic area for augmentation and amplification of the King County Comprehensive Plan through the adoption of the Sea-Tac Area Update and Area Zoning. ' 2. The Sea-Tac area has increasing demand for intensive land uses and requires areawide 'planning and zoning. 3. King County, with the assistance of the Sea-Tac Area Update Citizen Advisory Committee, the Technical Advisory Committee, the Port of Seattle and general citizen input, has studied and considered alternative land use, programs and other means to provide for the orderly development of the Sea-Tac Update area and has considered the social, economic and environmental impacts of the plan and areawide zoning. King County has prepared and circulated an Environmental Impact State for the Sea-Tac Area Update and Area Zoning. 4. The Area Update and Area Zoning provide for the coordination and regulition of public and private development and bear a substantial relationship to, and are necessary for, the public health, safety, and general welfare of King County and its citizens. 5. King County has considered the benefits and burdens of North Sea-Tac Park's location and concludes that the park can be a valuable community amenity if it is planned with safety as…

A RESOLUTION of the Port Commission of the Port of Seattle, King County Washington, adopting an updated Noise Remedy Program for Sea-Tac International Airport as an ele- ment to replace the Noise Remedy element of the previously adopted Sea-Tac Communities Plan described in Resolution No. 2626. Wllt:KEAS, the l:'Or't OI '>ea..::t.:.Le· aJ.oug Wl. LU 1..LU~ .IVUln.y . . ..Vdi)!J.t::l..c::.u Sea-Tac Communities Plan and the Port adopted it by Resolution No. 2626 on '• June 8, 1976, as-a-~id~development and environmental compatihiliLy for~th~e ______ __ Airport and its vicinity; WHEREAS, the Sea-Tac Communities Plan contained a major element deal- ing with noise impact and mitigation; WHEREAS, that element contained a series of noise remedy proposals . dealing with property acquisition and measures to reinforce or stabilize other impacted residential areas; WHEREAS, the Port of Seattle in accordance with the Sea-Tac Communities Plan has continued a program of land acquisition for noise compatibility purposes; WHEREAS, such programs are based on extensive technical analysis of noise exposure patterns; WHEREAS, periodic updating of such noise exposure information is desirable to determine changes in noise patterns and to employ more recent measurement technology; WHEREAS, the Port Commission authorized an updated Noise Exposure Study which was completed in June 1982; WHEREAS, a complete update of the Noise Remedy Program portion of the Sea-Tac Communities Plan was authorized by the Commission on October 26, 1982; and WHEREAS, the previous Environmental Impact Statement has been adopted and an addendum has been prepared in compliance with the State Environment Policy…

To provide assistance to airport operators to prepare and carry out noise compatibil- ity programs, to provide assistance to assure continued safety in aviation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979". TITLE I SEC. 101. For purposes of this t i t l e - CD the term "airport" means any air carrier airport whose projects for airport development are eligible for terminal devel- opment costs under section 20(b) of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 (49 U.S.C. 1720(b)); (2) the term "airport operator" means any person holding a valid certificaite issued pursuant to section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1432) to operate an airport; and (3) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Transporta- tion. SEC. 102. Not later than the last day of the twelfth month which begins after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protec- tion Agency and such other Federal, State, and interstate agencies as he deems appropriate, shall by regulation— (1) establish a single system of measuring noise, for which there is a highly reliable relationship between projected noise exposure and surveyed reactions of people to noise, to be uni- formly applied in measuring the noise at airports and the areas surroimding such airports; (2)…

AN ORDINANCE adopting the Sea-Tac Conununi tie~ PJab; !·as an addendum to the King County Comprehens;ive I i Plan for the future growth, development and rede- 1 ' ,,,velopment of· Sea-Tac International Airport apd ~he1 surrounding communi ties, , I ! S'FAT~MENT OF' FACTS: . I i 1. The King County Council passed Motion 1019 on NoVi ember 27, ~972, authorizing King County to apply for Federa:l 1 ' . Aviation Administration Planning ·Grant Funds with th~ . Por.t :.of Seattle to conduct ·master pl.nnirtg :for Se~~T~c 1 • ·International Airport and the _surrounding vicinity .. J i 2.. 'fhe application was approved by the Federal A:Viatti):n Administration for a sum of $641,468 on January 28, ~973'_,, .. • I I' "· ' ', I I • I '! i '. 3. The contracted and in- kind portions of that gran'tl ~ave been! satisfactorily accomplisbed. . j !'' ! 4. Community involvement was a: thorough ·and conttnu~·ng! · elf:'ment of the Sea-Tac Communi~ies Plan as certif'ied jby the ~ing. County Policy Development Commission and: doeu·h ment~d in their report "Report ·on Community Invol;vemdnt: in the sea-Tac C~unities Planning Process.!' ! I ! ' . . I' • I 5. King· County has considerable land use controlj in the . :i~~~~~~;lned as_ the vicinity of ~e~-Tac Internatilonalll i i , I 6. ~n Environmental Impact· Statement has· been pr'epaljed: which examines the effects of the Sea-Tac Communilties ! ' Plani · .. I 1 . . • I : .7. The…

December 31 , 1970 A N A C T [H. R. 17255] Xo amend the Clean Air Act to provide for a more effective program to improve the quality of the Nation's air. Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Bepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress asseinbled^ That this Act may be cited as the "Clean Air Amendments of 1970". Clean Air Amendments of 1970. Stat. 486. u s e 1857b. Appropriation. u s e 1857b-l . RESEARCH SEC. 2. (a) Section 103 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 1857, et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(f) (1) In cari*ying out research pursuant to this Act, the Admin- istrator shall give special emphasis to research on the short- and long- term effects of air pollutants on public health and welfare. In the furtherance of such research, he shall conduct an accelerated research program— "(A) to improve knowledge of the contribution of air pol- lutants to the occurrence of adverse effects on health, including, but not limited to, behavioral, physiological, toxicological, and bio- chemical effects; and " (B) to improve knowledge.of the short-and long-term effects of air pollutants on welfare. "(2) In carrying out the provisions of this subsection the Admin- istrator may— " (A) conduct epidemiological studies of the effects of air pol- lutants on mortality and morbidity; " (B) conduct clinical and laboratory studies on the immuno- logic, biochemical, physiological, and the toxicological effects including…