City of Burien SAMP comment (signed)

Via Email to samp@portseattle.org & Online Comment Form Mr. Steve Rybolt Port of Seattle, Aviation Environment and Sustainability P.O. Box 68727 Seattle, WA 98168 Dear Mr. Rybolt: The City of Burien believes there are significant defects in the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) currently under review for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It is the City’s position that these deficiencies may only properly be resolved through development of an Environmental Impact Statement and not the Environmental Assessment currently in process for the Port of Seattle. Given the short time frame allowed for study and comment (Oct. 21-Dec. 13, 2024), the objections raised here are not comprehensive but nonetheless reflect our concerns about the SAMP’s impact on residents of the City of Burien. Unrealistically small study boundary The General Study Area—the Port’s boundaries for its Area of Potential Effect—is drawn very tightly around the airport campus. The Port is attempting to force evaluation of the 31 “Near Term Projects” (NTPs) that make up the SAMP largely for impacts that will occur while those projects are under construction. This tactic ignores the impact—noise and other forms of pollution—that would occur in surrounding communities once additional aircraft and vehicles accommodated as a result of the SAMP projects leave the airport grounds. Tables 4.61 and 4.82 of the SAMP document show the NTPs will result in a significant increase in carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions. These estimates include approaching and climbing aircraft, whose altitudes are low enough to create emissions issues on the ground below…

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