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Certificate of Service filed April 4, 2002 by Michael Dennis of Helsell Fetterman LLP on behalf of Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) and Citizens Against Sea-Tac Expansion (CASE) in PCHB Case No. 01-160. Certifies hand delivery on March 14, 2002 of Appellants’ Responses to Ecology/Port Objections and Counter-excerpts of published depositions, and proposed revisions to Outline for Findings and Conclusions, to respondents State of Washington Department of Ecology and Port Of Seattle. Service recipients include Rachael Paschal Osborn, Joan Marchioro, Thomas Young, Jeff Kray (Assistant Attorneys General, Ecology Division, Olympia), Linda Strout, Traci Goodwin (Port of Seattle Legal Dept.), Jay Manning of Brown Reavis & Manning, and Roger Pearce and Steven Jones of Foster Pepper & Shefelman. AR 002039–002040.

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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.

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