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Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 10:49 AM To: Alexander, Steve ('ECY) Subject: RE: Request for Contract Services t actually have raised this issue with the Port of Seattle from time to time beginning awhile back. They are luke-warm to the idea of paying for SAIC and have, at this point, not committed to doing it but neither have they said no. They have asked me to provide them with a written request with a detailed account of what SAIC would do, which is what rm working on now. FYI: A state senator (Julia Patterson- from a district surrounding Sea-Tac airport) managed to get a bill through that provided $250,000 to Ecology to study the impacts of gravel mining at Maury Island. The bill also provided $250,000 to study how construction of the 3'_ Runway at Sea-Tac Airport would impact aquifers beneath the airport. The NVVWQ Section (John Gtynn and Kevin Fitzpatrick) put together a recommendation to the governor to veto the bill, but the governor just recently signed it-anyway. The Port views this as an attempt to stop the 3"=Runway. Furthermore, the Port is not happy with the situation that they are paying for a comprehensive study of groundwater at the airport through a MTCA Agreed Order, while the state is now funding a study which could largely be duplicative. (Duplicative in terms of developing a comprehensive groundwater flow model for the area of the airport). Anyway there is now the somewhat interesting scenario of TCP and WQ here doing…

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