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July 18, 2001 " Ke,_nL.StockAttorney at Law EMAIL: kstock_helsetl.com DIRECT DIAL: 206-689-2162 Bv Fax. Mail and Email Mr. Gordon White Pro_am Director Shorelandsand Environmental AssistancePro_am Department ofEcology P.O.Box 47600 Olympia, WA 98504-7600 Re: Sea-Tac Third Runway: Lack of Ecology Response toACC's , Recent PDA Requests Dear Mr. White: We arewritingtobringtoyour urgentattentionthe factthat,despiteongoing weekly PublicDisclosureAct requeststoEcology'sNWRO and additionalweekly inquiriestoN-WRO's recordsclerkSallyPerkins,ACC has not receivedany PDA documents from Ecology for over a month (with the exception of a few emailed Excel spreadsheets, with no accompanying context, and one partial document faxed to us yesterday after we learned of and specifically requested it). NWRO has apparently -- effectively -- cut off the flow of documents to ACC at this crucial time in the review process. One egregious example concerns the most current version of the Sea-Tac contaminants pathways analysis -- acknowledged as a key element of the review process. ACC's hydrogeology expert, Mark Varljen of SCS Engineers, has been commenting on this analysis and other aspects of potential contamination risks as concurrently as possible. We have now learned that the information he has been relying on to draft his latest letter (which we are transmitting to you today) -- the draft Technical Memorandum dated May 20, 2001, with Ecology's substantial edits dated May 30, 2001 -- was superseded by Port materials dated June 19, 2001. We only learned of the June 19 materials yesterday, July 17, after I asked Ching-Pi Wang by email (copy attached) to identify the date of the most current version.…

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