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ABCx2, LLC submitted Invoice #1207 dated March 5, 2021, billing the County of Arlington $24,138.00 for consulting services, approved for payment on March 30, 2021. The accompanying project budget summary shows cumulative consulting work spanning May 2020 through February 2021 across five components (C1–C5), totaling $226,050.50 in costs out of a $250,000 project budget, leaving a remaining balance of $23,950.

This document is an invoice dated February 4, 2021, from ABCx2, LLC (a consulting firm based in Senoia, Georgia) to the County of Arlington, Virginia, billing $27,212.50 for consulting services. Accompanying the invoice is a project budget summary prepared under the NowGEN brand, showing cumulative consulting hours and costs across five components (C1–C5) from April 2020 through January 2021, totaling approximately $201,912.50 of a $250,000 project budget. The remaining budget balance at the time of invoicing was approximately $48,088.

This document is an invoice dated January 5, 2021, from ABCx2, LLC to the County of Arlington for $14,850 in consulting services, approved for payment on January 13, 2021. It includes a project budget summary showing cumulative consulting work billed to Arlington from May 2020 through January 2021, totaling $174,700 spent against a $250,000 project budget, with $75,300 remaining. The work is associated with NowGEN, a firm focused on safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible aviation practices.

This document is an invoice dated October 5, 2020, from ABCx2, LLC (a consulting firm based in Senoia, Georgia) to the County of Arlington, Virginia, for $16,887.50 in consulting services. It includes a project budget summary showing cumulative consulting work billed across multiple periods from April through September 2020, totaling $115,487.50 of a $250,000 project budget. The work appears to be aviation-related consulting, as indicated by the NowGen branding referencing 'Safe, Efficient & Environmentally Responsible' air travel.

Currently, FAA law has extremely complicated rules for establishing a noise boundary around airports. (A noise boundary is a geographic area inside which there is a certain acceptable noise level.) This is referred to as the DNL65. and it has several major flaws. The FAA Reauthorization Act Of 2018 attempted to address these flaws in several ways. This letter, from a caucus of Congressmen engaged on airport community issues complains to the Administrator that the spirit of the law is not being adhered to and demands that he make attempts to put his agency into compliance. The language is fairly technical, however there are a couple of basic points they raise: First, that the noise boundary be determined by actual noise measurements (currently the noise boundaries are 'modeled' and those calculations often do not reflect in any way the lived experience for residents.) Second, that the 'acceptable' noise level of sixty five decibels (hence DNL65) has been determined to be far too high to conform with current understandings of healthy living.

Vashon Island Fair Skies, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, wrote to the SeaTac City Council in July 2020 requesting help pressuring the Port of Seattle to retain raw second-by-second data from its 24 airport noise monitors, which vendor L3Harris currently purges after processing. The letter argues this raw data is essential for accurate noise analysis, demonstrating with December 2019 monitor data that high background noise at some sites causes the processing software to miss many actual aircraft overflight events. The group asks the city to urge the Port to make a simple procedural change — either downloading the data itself or requiring L3Harris to deliver it — noting the storage requirement is a modest ~62 MB per monitor per month.

Two members of the Des Moines Ad Hoc Aviation Advisory Committee (DMAAC) resigned in July 2020, citing frustration that the Des Moines City Council voted to rejoin the SeaTac Airport Round Table (StART) without meeting any of the 13 reform criteria the committee had jointly developed with Burien. The resignees argued that rejoining StART without securing meaningful reforms was a strategic mistake, as prior participation in the forum had proven ineffective and potentially harmful to the city's long-term interests. Despite their resignations, they pledged to continue advocating for reduced airport noise and environmental protections through other organizations and legislative channels.