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Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) case PCHB 01-160 order granting summary judgment in favor of Port Of Seattle on Issue 14 (SEPA compliance). ACC (Airport Communities Coalition) and CASE (Citizens Against Sea-Tac Expansion) appealed the §401 water quality certification issued by Ecology, a prerequisite for a §404 dredge and fill permit from the U.S. Army

PCHB No. 01-160. Citizens Against Sea-Tac Expansion (CASE), represented by Smith & Lowney P.L.L.C. (Richard A. Poulin, WSBA #27782), submits its preliminary witness and exhibit list as required by the Board’s Order Granting Intervention dated December 21, 2001. Witnesses listed: Kate Rhoads and Bob Furstenberg (King County DNR). Exhibits listed: (1) construction stormwater monitoring documents

AR027061. Two letters dated December 2001 regarding NPDES Permit WA-002465-1 for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. First: Washington Department of Ecology (Tricia Miller, Permit Coordinator, Northwest Regional Office) acknowledges receipt of a waste discharge permit application from Michael Feldman, Director of Aviation Facilities, Port Of Seattle, received December 21, 2001; contact Ed Abbasi at (425) 649-7227. Second

A December 2001 letter from Azous Environmental Sciences challenges the Port of Seattle's wetland mitigation plan for the SeaTac Third Runway construction project, arguing that the plan inadequately offsets environmental damage to wetlands and streams. The letter contends that the Port has misclassified wetland 'enhancement' work at Vacca Farm as 'restoration,' inflating mitigation credits, and that the overall plan fails to meet no-net-loss standards required under Army Corps of Engineers regulations.

Letter dated December 27, 2001 from Keith R. Smith, Water Resources Manager at Port Of Seattle Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, to Ms. Ann Kenny at Washington State Department of Ecology (Bellevue, WA 98088-5452), transmitting construction stormwater monitoring reports for September, October, and November 2001 under Section K.6 of Water Quality Certification No. 1996-4-02325 (Amended-1) and NPDES

This legal document contains the Port of Seattle's responses to interrogatories filed by the Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) before Washington State's Pollution Control Hearings Board. The Port identifies expert witnesses expected to testify on topics including contaminated site cleanup, stormwater quality, wetland mitigation, and environmental review under SEPA and NEPA for Sea-Tac Airport's Master Plan Update projects. The document outlines each expert's anticipated testimony and the basis for their opinions in connection with Clean Water Act permit requirements.

The Port of Seattle submitted formal objections and responses to interrogatories filed by the Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) before Washington State's Pollution Control Hearings Board, related to a legal dispute over the Port's Third Runway Project. The case centered on the Department of Ecology's water quality certification issued under federal Clean Water Act Section 401. The document outlines the legal procedures governing the exchange of information between the parties during the hearing process.

This document contains the Port of Seattle's formal objections and responses to interrogatories and requests for production filed by the Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) before Washington State's Pollution Control Hearings Board (Case No. 01-160). The Port identifies over a dozen expert witnesses it intends to call, including specialists in geotechnical engineering, toxicology, hydrology, and groundwater science from firms such as Parametrix, Inc., Hart Crowser, and ENSR Toxicology. The case centers on environmental and pollution concerns related to Sea-Tac Airport operations.

ACC (Airport Communities Coalition) motion for partial summary judgment filed in PCHB No. 01-160 against State of Washington Department of Ecology and Port of Seattle, arguing the Section 401 Certification should be invalidated because the Port lacks a water right to permanently mitigate low-flow impacts of the Sea-Tac Airport third runway project. Cites PCHB December

This document is a deposition of Edward O'Brien, taken on December 21, 2001, as part of a Pollution Control Hearings Board case in Washington State involving the Airport Communities Coalition challenging the Department of Ecology and the Port of Seattle. O'Brien discusses stormwater management techniques, including infiltration facilities, which can be used to treat stormwater quality and mitigate low-flow impacts on surface water systems connected to groundwater. He explains that while infiltration can delay and filter stormwater flows through soil profiles, precise control over timing and flow rates is limited and depends on site-specific soil and hydrological conditions.