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Proposed order in PCHB No. 01-160 granting Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) motion to compel inspection of Port Of Seattle property. Orders Port Of Seattle to confer with ACC counsel within two days to schedule site visits for ACC experts, counsel, paralegal, and two client representatives to observe, photograph, and sample wetlands, soils, and streams within

Proposed order from the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB No. 01-160) granting Airport Communities Coalition (ACC)’s Motion to Extend Discovery Schedule. Extends time for ACC to depose Port Of Seattle witnesses from February 1, 2002, to February 25, 2002; extends filing of ACC’s final exhibit list from February 8, 2002, to March 1, 2002;

Port Of Seattle motion filed January 11, 2002 in PCHB No. 01-160 before the Pollution Control Hearings Board, State of Washington, seeking to compel Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) to produce all documents responsive to the Port’s Requests for Production propounded November 9, 2001. ACC refused to produce any documents in response to Request for Production

In early 2002, the Port of Seattle filed a legal memorandum seeking to compel the Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) to make its witnesses available for deposition and to place limits on a requested inspection of Port property near Sea-Tac Airport. The Port objected to ACC's demands for unrestricted site access for 17 people, unlimited environmental sampling across 18 acres of wetlands and multiple creeks, and refusal to disclose sampling locations or methods in advance. ACC, in turn, refused to schedule any depositions until the site visit dispute was resolved.

Third Declaration of Steven G. Jones, attorney for Respondent Port Of Seattle, filed January 10, 2002 in PCHB No. 01-160 before the Pollution Control Hearings Board for the State of Washington. Declaration concerns discovery dispute between Port Of Seattle and Airport Communities Coalition (ACC): Port’s first set of Interrogatories and Requests for Production served November

An internal email from Norm Peck of the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Toxics Cleanup Program raises concerns about the rationale for allowing elevated levels of metals, especially lead and arsenic, in fill material for the Third Runway at Sea-Tac Airport. The issue was flagged by the City of Burien as a sensitive community concern,

Declaration by Jeanne Moeller, Des Moines resident, filed January 10, 2002, in support of Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) Motion to Compel Inspection of Port Of Seattle property, PCHB Case No. 01-160. Moeller states she participated in a Des Moines Chamber of Commerce tour of the proposed Third Runway construction area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport approximately

Second Declaration of Steven G. Jones, attorney for Respondent Port Of Seattle, filed in PCHB No. 01-160 (Airport Communities Coalition v. State of Washington Department of Ecology and Port Of Seattle). Jones details ACC’s November 26, 2001 CR 34(a)(2) site visit request, the Port’s December 24, 2001 objections, negotiations with ACC counsel Michael Witek and

Resume of Greg Wingard, an environmental consultant based in Seattle, Washington with 20 years of experience in environmental issues. The document outlines his expertise, committee memberships, awards, employment history, and key projects including work on Superfund sites, MTCA cases, and environmental litigation support. He served as advisor to the Mayor of Kent, WA and as

Memorandum dated January 9, 2002, from Barry S. Chen, P.E., and Michael Bailey, P.E., Hart Crowser, Inc., to Jim Thomson, P.E., HNTB (project 4978-30), reviewing RECo 30% design for NSA, West, and South/MSE walls of the Sea-Tac Third Runway Embankment Project. Hart Crowser performed independent limit equilibrium analyses (SLOPE/W) and FLAC finite difference modeling to