EXH 463: ACC Interrogatories Nos. 1-18 and RFP Nos. 1-6 to Ecology and Responses

This document contains interrogatories and responses from a 2001 Pollution Control Hearings Board case in which the Airport Communities Coalition challenged Washington State Department of Ecology and the Port of Seattle over a Section 401 Water Quality Certification related to Sea-Tac Airport's Third Runway Project. Ecology identified ten expert witnesses, including specialists in water quality certification, wetland mitigation, and stormwater management, who were prepared to testify that the certification's conditions provided reasonable assurance that state water quality standards would be met. The case centered on whether the environmental safeguards imposed on the Third Runway construction adequately protected wetlands and water quality in the surrounding communities.

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PCHB No. 01-160. Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) interrogatories nos. 1-18 and requests for production nos. 1-6 directed to Washington State Department of Ecology, with Ecology’s responses thereto. Document identifies Ecology’s expert witnesses for the Third Runway § 401 Water Quality Certification proceeding, including Ann Kenny, Erik Stockdale, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Katie Walter, Dave Garland, Ching-Pi Wang, Chung Yee, John Drabeck, Ed O’Brien, and Kelly Whiting. Expert testimony subjects include § 401 water quality certification procedures, wetland and aquatic resource mitigation, NPDES permit, stormwater management plan, Sea-Tac Airport Master Plan improvements, acceptable fill material, and natural resource mitigation plan (in-basin and out-of-basin). Exhibit 463 filed 2-28-02, M. Green. ACC counsel Helsell Fetterman LLP; Ecology counsel Joan Marchioro and Thomas Young, Assistant Attorneys General.

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