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Tom Luster’s self-addressed email memo documenting a phone call from Ann Kenny regarding the 401 water quality certification, Agreed Order, and Governor’s certification letter related to Sea-Tac Airport’s third runway. Kenny indicates Ecology intends to separate the 401 from the Agreed Order and pursue ‘reasonable assurance’ through a new study examining possible contamination pathways from

Final draft meeting notes prepared by Rachel McCrea of Floyd & Snider Inc. for a 401 Permit Decision-Making technical meeting on June 5, 2001 regarding Sea-Tac International Airport Third Runway. Attendees included Ann Kenny (Dept. of Ecology), Kelly Whiting (King County), Keith Smith (Port of Seattle), Alan Black (HNTB), Paul Fendt and Tom Atkins (Parametrix).

This is a verbatim report of court proceedings held on June 5, 2001, before Judge Dean S. Lum in King County Superior Court. The case involves Port Of Seattle as petitioner against RST Enterprises, Inc. and King County as respondents. The proceedings include examination of witnesses James C. Kelley, Ph.D. and Jack Dodge, with attorneys

Internal deliberative emails from Kevin Fitzpatrick (NWRO Water Quality Program Section Manager) to Chung K. Yee, Ann Kenny, Ching-Pi Wang, and others at Washington State Department of Ecology regarding development of acceptable clean fill criteria language for the 401 Water Quality Certification for the Sea-Tac Airport Third Runway (Sea-Tac Master Plan Improvements project). Emails reference

Email correspondence (June 4, 2001) from Andrea Grad, paralegal at Helsell Fetterman, to Ann Kenny at Washington State Department of Ecology (ECY), following up on a Public Disclosure Act (PDA) request for Parametrix’s 1999 draft report titled ‘Water Effects Ratio Screening Study of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: Toxicity Evaluation of Site Water.’ The Port of Seattle

Email chain (June 1, 2001) from Kevin Fitzpatrick, Section Manager, Water Quality Program NWRO, to Ann Kenny and Ching-Pi Wang, cc Raymond Hellwig and Steve Alexander (Ecology), forwarding deliberative draft language for clean fill criteria in the 401 Certification for Sea-Tac Airport Third Runway construction. Includes August 24, 2000 email from Fitzpatrick to Tom Luster

Letter dated May 31, 2001 from NMFS Northwest Region to FAA Airport Division Manager Lowell H. Johnson (NMFS No. WSB-00-318) concurring with the ‘may affect, not likely to adversely affect’ determination for threatened Puget Sound chinook salmon (Onchorhynchus tshawytscha) and designated critical habitat under ESA Section 7(a)(2), and finding STIA projects ‘not likely to adversely

Letter dated May 31, 2001 from NMFS Northwest Region (Seattle, WA) to Lowell H. Johnson, FAA Airport Division Manager, concurring with the ‘may affect, not likely to adversely affect’ determination for threatened Puget Sound chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and designated critical habitat under ESA Section 7(a)(2) for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (STIA) Master Plan Update Improvements

A letter from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to the Federal Aviation Administration concurring with the Biological Assessment’s determination that Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Master Plan Update projects ‘may affect but are not likely to adversely affect’ threatened Puget Sound chinook salmon or designated critical habitat. The letter covers ESA Section 7 consultation and Essential

Email from Ching-Pi Wang (Port Of Seattle) to Paul Agid, cc Roger Nye, dated May 30, 2001, transmitting redline edits to the May 8th draft of the preferential ground-water flowpath technical memorandum related to construction of the Third Runway at Sea-Tac Airport. Attached redlined memorandum (From Port to Ecology, May 30, 2001) addresses preferential flowpaths