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TO: Steve Alexander. TCP Section Head, NWRO FROM: Roger Nye SUBJECT: Clarifications Regarding Issue of Changing Scope of Agreed Order to Include Cleanup Actions or a CAP The short answer is that Ecology already has an agreement with the Port regarding this issue. Background information must be provided to understand how this came abOut and what it is. My predecessor in the prepaid position for sea-Tac Airport, Linda Priddy attempted to put four of the major MTCA sites where cleanup was going on independently under formal Agreed Orders. In this attempt, Ms. Priddy's relation with the Port, in particular Elizabeth Leavitt, became so bad that Ms. Priddy found another job with the EPA and left Ecology in the fall of 1993. It is my understanding that subsequently Ecology agreed to back off from pursuing these particular Agreed Orders, and the PLPs (airlines) promised to more proactive in conducting their cleanups, which they were. competed for and was selected to be the Port's prepaid position for the airport in April, 1994. For some reason that I still don't understand, Ecology allowed the Port to have another prepaid position without the issue of having an Agreed Order at the airport resolved as is required by the prepaid position policy. A meeting was held on September 30, 1994 that involved Mike Rundlett, Mike Gallagher, Kathy Gerla, myself, Dave Aggerholm (head of all environmental things at the Port), Tom Newlon (head artomey for the Port) and Paul Agid. The purpose of the meeting was…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]