EXH AR023747: Ecology Internal Deliberative Memo — Natural Resource Mitigation Plan Review Tasks, Dyanne Sheldon

A October 30, 2000 internal memo from Erik Stockdale of Washington State Department of Ecology outlines recommended tasks for contractor Dyanne Sheldon, who was hired to evaluate the natural resource mitigation plan for a Port project near Sea-Tac Airport. The memo recommends an open-ended 'Time and Materials' contract and calls for a firewall between Sheldon and the Port, citing concerns about the Port playing Ecology and the Army Corps of Engineers against each other. Key tasks include reviewing wetland mitigation plans for the Des Moines, Walker, and Miller creek basins, evaluating stormwater consistency, and drafting Section 401 Clean Water Act permit conditions.

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Deliberative memo (AR023747–AR023748) from Erik Stockdale to Jeannie Summerhays and Ray Hellwig, dated October 30, 2000, outlining tasks for contractor Dyanne Sheldon under an open-ended Time and Materials contract. Covers evaluation and refinement of the natural resource mitigation plan (NRMP) for the Port Of Seattle third runway project under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act and RCW 90.48. Specific tasks include review of mitigation package for Des Moines, Walker, and Miller creek basins and the Auburn mitigation site, field verification of wetlands with Army Corps of Engineers, coordination to prevent Port Of Seattle from playing Ecology and Corps off each other, evaluation of Tyee Golf Course mitigation proposal, hydrologic impacts from borrow sites 3 and 4, baseflow support to remaining wetlands, stormwater plan consistency, contingency plan review, performance standards, monitoring plan, and drafting 401 conditions with Ann Kenny. Recommends firewall between Sheldon and Port Of Seattle. References 1:1 in-basin and 2:1 out-of-basin mitigation ratios and Erik Stockdale’s October 9, 2000 internal memo.

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