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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

A January 2002 internal email from Washington State Department of Ecology staff raises concerns about elevated levels of metals, particularly lead and arsenic, in fill material being used for the 3rd Runway construction at Sea-Tac Airport. The issue was flagged by the City of Burien as a community sensitivity, with worries that it could become a broader concern for neighboring communities including SeaTac, Normandy Park, and Tukwila. The email seeks clarification on the rationale behind allowable arsenic and lead levels in the runway fill, drawing a comparison to stricter restrictions previously placed on arsenic exports from the Maury Island gravel pit.

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

This document is the professional resume of Greg Wingard, an environmental consultant based in Seattle, Washington, with 20 years of experience in environmental issues including hazardous waste site research, regulatory negotiations, and litigation support. Among his listed projects, he advised the Airport Communities Coalition, Regional Coalition on Airport Affairs, and Citizens Against SeaTac Expansion on environmental matters, including site inspection, environmental regulation and policy, and negotiation with government agencies. He also served on numerous advisory committees and received the 1990 Washington State Environmental Excellence Award for hazardous waste site cleanup work.

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

This January 2002 transmittal from Parametrix, Inc. to the Washington State Department of Ecology submits corrections to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Master Plan Update Natural Resources Mitigation Plan (NRMP, November 2001). The corrections include a revised reference list, an errata sheet fixing citation errors throughout the report, and an updated Table 3.1-4 that adjusts the total acreage of wetlands affected by mitigation activities from 43.34 to 44.36 acres. Additional text corrections clarify wetland category designations and update various reference callouts across multiple sections of the report.

Transmittal form dated January 9, 2002, from Jim Kelley of Parametrix, Inc. to Ann Kenny at the Washington Department of Ecology NWRO (Northwest Regional Office), Project Number 556-2912-001-01-03, Project Name STIA MPU Permitting. Transmits: (1) Revised Section 8 References for the Natural Resource Mitigation Plan (NRMP, November 2001), correcting omitted citations; (2) Errata Sheet correcting