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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Aug. 9, 2001 runwayatSeattle-TacomaInternationalAtrpon 01-138 DRAFT Ecology approves Port of Seattle permit for new airport runwav BELLEVUE - The Department of Ecology (Ecology) lias approved the Port of Seattle's environmental permit to construct a third runway and related projects at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Ecology has also outlined several conditions in the permit that the Port will have to meet to satisfy state and federal environmental regulations. These items include requiring additional wetland protection, retrofitting existing stormwater management systems and carefully monitoring fill materials. "The environmental footprint for this project is huge. Our permit specifies what the Port will have to do to build a third runway and protect the surrounding environment," said Ecology Director Tom Fitzsimmons. . A third Sea-Tac runway is proposed to be located parallel and to the west of the airport's two existing runways. More than 20 million cubic yards of fill will be brought in to construct the massive 8,500-foot-long project m the equivalent of 40 football fields, each stacked 300 feet-high with material. Three salmon-bearing creeks m Des Moines, Miller and Walker -- are contiguous to the planned runway site. In addition, nearly 20 acres of wetlands will be filled but the Port will be required to replace or enhance wetland functions in each creek basin and create a new 60-acre wetland next to the Green River in Auburn. "This project is unprecedented," said Gov. Gary Locke. "'While a new Sea-Tac runway is vital to our state's economic health, we have…

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