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2024-10-29
Commercial Aviation Workgroup Meeting #3
The third meeting of the new 'Second Airport' committee. <a target="_blank" href="https://wsdot-wa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcld-6rrjkjGdyRkriBK3ODyiDaUWV-hAuT" rel="noopener">Zoom Registration</a> -
SAMP Draft EA: How to provide a great public comment
1How to provide effective public comment by December 13, 2024 Because new ways for you to participate will likely become available, this article may be subject to updates. Introduction This is the second of a two-part article concerning the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft Environmental Assessment (SAMP Draft EA). If you’re looking for the short -
2024-10-24
Toxics in firefighting law
Final AFFF EIS published The final AFFF environmental impact statement (EIS) is published. The EIS is based on feedback received during a public comment period on the draft EIS, which assessed disposal options for an AFFF collection and disposal program. In 2018, Washington passed the Firefighting Agents and Equipment law (Chapter 70A.400 RCW). This law does the following: Restricts -
2024-10-24EPA imposes stricter standards to protect children from exposure to lead paint
Oct. 24, 2024 at 2:04 am Updated Oct. 24, 2024 at 2:33 pm 1 of 2 | FILE – Contractors Luis Benitez, foreground, and Jose Diaz, background, clean up lead paint in a contaminated building, Feb. 23, 2006, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) By MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks -
2024-10-23StART October 23, 2024
Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft Environmental Assessment Update Aircraft Go-arounds: An Analysis SEA’s Operational Growth and Ensuring Safety Approval of the State Policy Agenda Aviation Noise Working Group/Part 150 TRC Activities <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uf7crLeBT76-M-HwmdPRQQ#/registration">Webinar Registration - Zoom</a> -
2024-10-22
Port Commission Meeting features SAMP EA and Tax Levy
Four hours, 700 pages Meeting Agenda It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft EA Presentation (Item #11a SAMP EA Presentation) Sarah Potter: Landrum & Brown, Steve Rybold and Sarah Cox: Port of Seattle Today’s Commission meeting was -
2024-10-22Delta may soon go head-to-head with Alaska Airlines on new route to East Coast
By Nick Pasion – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Oct 16, 2024 Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) may soon offer a direct flight from Seattle to Washington, D.C., after the Department of Transportation granted a tentative flight slot to the carrier on Wednesday. The flight would connect Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Washington’s Ronald Reagan International Airport, putting Delta -
2024-10-22Sea-Tac receives federal funds for S Concourse upgrades
By Nick Pasion – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Oct 22, 2024 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has secured $17.5 million from the federal government to help fund the reconstruction of the South Concourse. The money will go toward structural, seismic and building system upgrades, part of a $24.5 million grant package for airports across Washington. “This funding will -
2024-10-22
Port of Seattle Commission Meeting October 22
Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft Environmental Assessment Update Tax Levy 2025-2029 -
2024-10-21This former Superfund site in Tacoma is ‘Dune’ just fine now, thanks
Tantri Wija Special to The Seattle Times IF FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGISTS (whether aliens or, should we persist as a species, our own descendants) were to explore the city that might or might not still be known as Tacoma, they surely would visit its eerily beautiful Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park. Wide-eyed, they would marvel at the