2024-10-08
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Port of Seattle Commission order directing the Executive Director to prepare documentation and establish a timeline for permanently designating North SeaTac Park for recreational uses under the 2024 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act. The order includes budget allocation for park improvements and requires legally binding frameworks to ensure permanent protection.
1985-01-25
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Port of Seattle resolution adopting an updated Noise Remedy Program for Sea-Tac International Airport to replace the noise remedy element of the previously adopted Sea-Tac Communities Plan. The resolution establishes procedures for noise abatement, property acquisition, and demonstration projects to address aircraft noise impacts.
2026-01-23
Washington Senate bill report proposing to allocate a portion of hazardous substance tax revenues from aviation fuel to create a state aircraft noise and air quality mitigation account. The account would fund grant programs through the Department of Commerce for mitigation strategies in aviation-impacted communities.
2025-10-03
Meeting minutes from the UFP Advisory Group discussing research priorities for ultrafine particle health effects, mitigation strategies, and exposure reduction in aviation-impacted communities. Participants included University of Washington researchers, public health officials, school district representatives, and community leaders focusing on air quality and health impacts near Sea-Tac Airport.
2025-02-14
Map of Washington State showing cumulative levels of criteria air pollution with numbered markers indicating 16 airport-impacted communities. The map uses green shading to represent pollution levels from highest to lowest, with communities like Ellensburg, Everett, South King County, and others marked with red numbered circles.
2025-01-21
Washington State Senate Bill 5380 introduced to reduce disparities in cumulative environmental and health impacts by improving government decisions. The bill amends existing environmental review codes and requires the Department of Ecology to add environmental justice as an element in environmental reviews and checklists.
For the past several years there has been a lot of energy directed at creating Federal legislation to correct the systemic unfairness we all experience living near a large airport like Sea-Tac. On the surface, this makes perfect sense: the FAA has direct authority over all airports. And many, many attempts at obtaining relief by
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