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  • 2024-11-27

    CEQ’s Wings Clipped: D.C. Circuit Invalidates CEQ’s Binding Regulations

    In a significant ruling, the D.C. Circuit in Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration held that the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) lacks the statutory authority to issue binding regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).1 The decision calls into question the legal basis for key aspects of NEPA compliance, including the use
  • 2024-11-12

    Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration: D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion No. 23-1067

    A federal appeals court reviewed a challenge by conservation groups to an Air Tour Management Plan regulating tourist flights over four national parks near San Francisco, including Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Park Service had jointly issued the plan under the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, determining that no full environmental review was required because the plan would cause minimal additional environmental impact. The court considered whether the agencies properly bypassed environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act.

  • DNL65-overlay-APE

    A Google Earth satellite image showing the Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) Airport area with a red shaded elliptical overlay indicating a noise exposure or flight corridor zone, an orange highlighted road/highway network, and a blue polygon outlining the airport property boundary. Visible route markers include SR-509, SR-516, SR-518, US-99, and I-5.

  • fix the harm graphic 169d79_6e066edc98434fc2a950bc69be687193~mv2

  • Table 4-2: Summary of Potential Environmental Impacts – Socioeconomic, Environmental Justice, and Children’s Health

    This table excerpt from an environmental review document compares three alternatives (No Action, Proposed Action, and Hybrid Terminal Option) for impacts on socioeconomic conditions, environmental justice populations, and children's health and safety risks at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). Under the Proposed Action, two businesses (Doug Fox Lot and PACCAR Aviation) and one intersection (24th Avenue South from S. 150th Street) would be closed, with no significant or disproportionate adverse impacts found after mitigation.

  • Chapter 3 Affected Environment_99

    Exhibit 3-23 from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Environmental Assessment for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects, prepared by Landrum & Brown, dated October 2024 (Draft). The map displays watershed basins (green lines), water features (light blue), and the General Study Area boundary (blue dashed line) surrounding Sea-Tac Airport, including nearby features such as Angle Lake and Puget Sound.

  • Chapter 3 Affected Environment_93

    Page 3-93 from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Environmental Assessment for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects (Landrum & Brown, August 2024 Preliminary Draft), showing four Google Earth Street View images of adjacent viewsheds: S. 176th Street at 32nd Avenue looking west toward the Terminal, State Route 518 looking west toward Runway 34C approach lights, S. 156th Way looking southwest toward the airfield, and S. 188th Street looking north toward the airfield. Source imagery was accessed February 2023 (August–November 2022).

  • Chapter 3 Affected Environment_81

    Draft exhibit from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Environmental Assessment for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects, prepared by Landrum & Brown, dated October 2024. The map (Exhibit 3-19) identifies low-income block groups within the Surface Transportation Study Area (STSA) surrounding Sea-Tac Airport, with green shading indicating low-income block groups and a blue dashed line denoting the general study area boundary.

  • Chapter 3 Affected Environment_79

    Exhibit 3-18 from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Environmental Assessment for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects (Draft, October 2024), prepared by Landrum & Brown. The map shows census block groups with median household income below poverty level (highlighted in green) that fall within the existing 2022 65+ DNL noise contour (shown as a blue dashed ellipse) surrounding Sea-Tac Airport.

  • Chapter 3 Affected Environment_77

    Draft Environmental Assessment exhibit from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) Near-Term Projects, prepared by Landrum & Brown, dated October 2024. The map identifies low-income census block groups (shown in green) within the General Study Area (outlined in blue dashes) surrounding Sea-Tac Airport, as part of the environmental justice analysis.