The SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART) held a virtual meeting on December 17, 2025, covering the FAA's Instrument Flight Procedures process, a review of StART's 2025/26 priorities, and updates on aviation noise, policy working group activities, and the Sustainable Airport Master Plan. StART serves as a forum for cooperation between the Port of Seattle and communities neighboring Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The meeting also featured a presentation from representatives of other airport community roundtables and included time for public comment.

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Meeting agenda for the SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART), focusing on FAA’s Instrument Flight Procedures Process and reviewing 2025/26 priorities. The meeting includes updates on various working groups, airport roundtables launch, and sustainable airport master plan projects.

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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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