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9,_o0 i_d SMTT Runway Update " g points 1. The Puget Sound Regional Council gave the go-ahead for the 3RW in 1996 withoutin-depth consideration of altematives proposedin Snohomish and Pierce Counties. 2. ECY has been reviewingthe runwayand related STIA Master Plan Improvement proposalssince '96. 3. Over thissame period we have been to court regardingthe validity and administration•of the Port's NPDES IndustrialStormwaterWaste Discharge Permit. We have prevailed over challengesto the Port's permit. • Note: this a.m. we received a copy of a 60 noticeof intent to sue from RCANCASE to the Port of Seattle for numerousviolations of the NPDES Permit and the CWA. A cover letter includedthe argument that ECY cannot consider a 401 Certification in lightof the NPDES violations. 4. From the beginning,our issues/primary areas of concem have remained .... essentiallythe same: J • Natural resource mitigation (a NRMP), primarilywetland mitigation (two sub-basins) • Wildlife hazard management (WLHMP) and wetland mitigation consistent with needs relatingto BASH - need for agreements with the FAA • Water Qual_- stormwater management (SWMP) • Consistencybetween the NRMP and the SWMP • Cumulative and indirect impacts from associated and/or nearby projects • Flow augmentation for Des Moines Creek • Clean fill criteria • ESA • CZM consistency • HPAs • Shoreline Permit Exemptions for off-sitewetland mitigation in Auburn (65 acres') SEach major issue has multiple sub-issue and sub-sub-issuedimensions, some of /which are consideral:_/more sedous than the totalityof numerous other entire |projects e.g., cumulat_e impactsassociated with DOT SR-509 construction; flow _,,..__ugmentation and the need for a…

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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 [...]