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EXH AR023628: Email Chain — Ecology SAIC Contract Request, Third Runway Groundwater Study Funding

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In May 1999, Washington State Department of Ecology staff exchanged emails discussing plans to hire consulting firm SAIC to review groundwater studies at Sea-Tac Airport, with the question of whether the Port of Seattle would fund the work remaining unresolved. The emails also note that state legislation signed by the governor allocated $250,000 to study how construction of Sea-Tac's proposed Third Runway would impact aquifers beneath the airport, a move the Port viewed as an attempt to block the runway project. This created an unusual situation where two separate Ecology divisions were conducting potentially duplicative groundwater modeling studies at the airport for different purposes.

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Email chain (AR023628–AR023629) dated May 17–26, 1999 among Roger Nye, Steve Alexander, Joe Hickey, and Ching Pi Wang of Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology), concerning a request for contract services from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to critique Port Of Seattle consultant groundwater modeling at Sea-Tac Airport under MTCA Agreed Order. Discusses Port Of Seattle’s lukewarm response to funding SAIC, a $250,000 legislative appropriation sponsored by state senator Julia Patterson to study 3rd Runway construction impacts on aquifers beneath Sea-Tac Airport, a parallel $250,000 study on gravel mining at Maury Island, and overlapping TCP and Water Quality (NWWQ) groundwater flow modeling efforts. References MTCA (Model Toxics Control Act), Work Assignment Form process, John Glynn, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Jan Swanberg, Chuck Hollander, Mark Dagels, and potential duplicate groundwater modeling under Agreed Order.

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