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The Seattle Tacoma International Airport currently has no air-pollution monitoring system in place. The Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE) studied how seriously the airport is affecting the quality of the air we breathe. The Seattle Tacoma International Airport covers 2500 acres of land in King County. This a mere 0.18% or less than 1/5 of 1% of the land in King County. The DOE found that Sea-Tac Airport contributed 8% of the carbon monoxide and 5% of the nitrogen oxide emissions in all of King County in 1991. The following air pollutants, classified as either Criteria or Toxic http://www.rcaanews.org/ file:///C|/AA_RCAAwebsite/water/libr1.htm Pollutants, are not being monitored by Sea-Tac Airport staff: Total suspended particulates, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, oxides of sulfer, oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons, ozone and lead (criteria pollutant) Phenyl, benzene, dioxin, toluene, manganese, xylene, formaldehyde and chloroform pc.,[Ed. note: unreadable text]. Benzene, one of the toxic pollutants, is a known carcinogen. Sea-Tac airport, according to the DOE study, contributed 12.7 tons of benzene in 1984. This amounted to about 0.16 parts per million or 24,000 parts per trillion. New WAC 173-460 proposes the acceptable impact levels for benzene at 0.063 parts per trillion. There is no baseline for a study of air pollution at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. There is no system set up at this time to study air pollution. This is a fatal flaw in the [FlightPlan] Environmental Impact Statement which must be corrected. Airport currently has no air-pollution monitoring system in place. [Page 3] Our creation…

Area and Noise Levels at Certification Points Clemans A. Powell Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia The NASA STI Program Office . . . in Profile Since its founding, NASA has been dedicated to the advancement of aeronautics and space science. The NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program Office plays a key part in helping NASA maintain this important role. The NASA STI Program Office is operated by Langley Research Center, the lead center for NASA’s scientific and technical information. The NASA STI Program Office provides access to the NASA STI Database, the largest collection of aeronautical and space science STI in the world. The Program Office is also NASA’s institutional mechanism for disseminating the results of its research and development activities. These results are published by NASA in the NASA STI Report Series, which includes the following report types: • TECHNICAL PUBLICATION. Reports of completed research or a major significant phase of research that present the results of NASA programs and include extensive data or theoretical analysis. Includes compilations of significant scientific and technical data and information deemed to be of continuing reference value. NASA counterpart of peer- reviewed formal professional papers, but having less stringent limitations on manuscript length and extent of graphic presentations. • TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM. Scientific and technical findings that are preliminary or of specialized interest, e.g., quick release reports, working papers, and bibliographies that contain minimal annotation. Does not contain extensive analysis. • CONTRACTOR REPORT. Scientific and technical findings by NASA-sponsored contractors and grantees. •…

Puget Soundkeeper Alliance jointly move the Board for an Order determining that Seattle- Tacoma International Airport's NPDES Permit is invalid. Appellants respectfully request the Board to direct the Department of Ecology to reissue the permit consistent with all applicable requirements of state and federal law. WAC 371-08-540. APPELLANTS' MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT re: AKART- 1 Smith & Lowney, p.l.l.c. 2317 East John Street Seattle, Washington 98112 (206) 860-2883 OVERVIEW NPDES Permit No. WA 002465-1, issued September 4, 2003 (the "2003 Permit") is invalid and must be remanded because it does not require the Port of Seattle to implement AKART -- all known, available, and reasonable methods of preventing, controlling, and treating pollution. The NPDES Permit allows the Port to continue discharging essentially untreated industrial wastewater contaminated with biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)-inducing glycols into Puget Sound. The Permit allows these discharges to continue even though the Port identified and recommended an AKART Alternative providing biological treatment for all of its industrial wastewater. The Permit allows these discharges to continue even though they contain concentrations of BOD that are many times greater than the levels routinely achieved with biological treatment. In fact, the Permit allows these discharges to continue even though the Port is going to build an "AKART pipeline" to the King County sewage treatment plant to provide biological treatment for some of its industrial wastewater. Two of these points merit repeating: even though the Port recommended biological treatment as AKART for its industrial wastewater, and even though the Port…

RCAA comments on the draft of a renewed NPDES permit for Seattle-Tacoma submitted on 21 April 2003 The following comments on the draft of a renewed NPDES permit for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport & accompanying Fact Sheet are submitted on behalf of the Regional Commission on Airport Affairs (RCAA). The interest of RCAA in matters relating to Sea-Tac Airport is well-known to the Department of Ecology & need not be restated. Our comments primarily address the actual permit, after a brief mention of concerns as to the Fact Sheet. The comments on the permit itself follow the format of the permit, so that we deal with the three specific sections: “Industrial Waste Water (Section I), Non-Construction Stormwater Runoff (Section II), and “Construction Stormwater Discharge Limitations and Monitoring (Section III) in that order. The text of these comments was previously sent to you via e-mail, with a copy also sent to Tricia Miller, Water Quality Permit Coördinator. The formatting & pagination in this hard-copy letter are slightly different from that in the e-mail version. The text is unchanged, except for correction of a few minor typographical errors. * * * * * * * FACT SHEET Most NPDES Permit Fact Sheets include a section on compliance with the previous permit. This lets the public know how a facility is doing in terms of compliance and informs the public what actions Ecology is taking as a result to correct any problems. The instant Fact Sheet does not have a section on compliance with…

PORT OF SEATTLE, a port district ) of the State of Washington, ) Petitioner, ) ) No. 73419-4 v. ) THE POLLUTION CONTROL HEARINGS ) BOARD, an agency of the State of Washington, ) EN BANC Respondent, ) ) Filed May 14, 2004 ) AIRPORT COMMUNITIES COALITION; ) CITIZENS AGAINST SEATAC EXPANSION; ) and STATE OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT ) OF ECOLOGY, an agency of the State of ) Washington, ) Respondents/Cross-Petitioners ) BRIDGE, J.--Construction of the third runway at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SeaTac) will require placing fill into area wetlands. Before the Army Corps of Engineers may issue a permit to fill wetlands, the project proponent must obtain certification from the State, pursuant to sec. 401 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. sec. 1341), stating that there is reasonable assurance that the project will not violate applicable state water quality standards. On September 21, 2001, the Washington State Department of Ecology issued a sec. 401 water quality certification to the Port of Seattle (Port) for the third runway project. The Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) appealed the certification to the Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB). After a lengthy hearing, the PCHB affirmed the certification but added 16 new conditions it deemed necessary for reasonable assurance that state water quality standards would be met. All parties appealed and this court accepted direct review of the PCHB decision. We conclude that there is reasonable assurance that the third runway project will not violate state water quality standards. We uphold some of…

This is an appeal of the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Waste Discharge Permit No. WA -002465-1, issued to the Port of Seattle on September 4, 2003 for operations at SEATAC International Airport. (“SEATAC NPDES Permit”). The permit is effective October 1, 2003. A copy of this permit is attached. 4. Short and plain statement showing grounds for appeal. Appellant considers the SEATAC NPDES Permit to be unlawful and unfair because it does not meet the requirements or intent of the federal Clean Water Act, applicable regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection Phone: (206) 621-8868 Fax: (206) 621-0512 NOTICE OF APPEAL - 2 GENDLER & MANN, LLP 1424 Fourth Avenue, Suite 1015 Seattle, WA 98101 Agency, Washington State water pollution control law, and the Washington Department of Ecology's regulations. Of particular concern to appellant are the ongoing unmonitored and unregulated discharges of BOD, COD and acute and chronic toxic pollutants into Puget Sound from this facility. The SEATAC NPDES Permit illegally approves an AKART compliance scheduled well beyond that allowed by the Clean Water Act and Washington regulations. Further, despite acknowledgment that the facility has not implemented AKART, the SEATAC NPDES permit approves a mixing zone for various pollutants. Moreover, despite recognition that the facility is exceeding water quality standards for BOD5, the SEATAC NPDES Permit delays monitoring of BOD5 until after the facility implements AKART. The SEATAC NPDES PERMIT also fails to prohibit the discharge of acute and chronic toxic pollutants and requires monitoring for toxic pollutants only during…

Permittee: Port of Seattle Port of Seattle 17900 International Boulevard, Suite 402 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Permit No: 1996-4-02325 SeaTac, Washington 98188-4236 Issuing Office: Seattle District NOTE: The term "you" and its derivatives, as used in this permit, means the permittee or any future transferee. The term "this office" refers to the appropriate district or division office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) having jurisdiction over the permitted activity or the appropriate official of that office acting under the authority of the commanding officer. You are authorized to perform work in accordance with the terms and conditions specified below. Project Description: Permanently impact 19.62 acres of wetlands and temporarily impact 5.51 acres of wetlands on-site and 23.27 acres of wetlands at Auburn for the construction of an 8,500 foot third runway, two Runway Safety Areas (RSA), the South Aviation Support Area (SASA), the mitigation both on-site and at Auburn, the relocation of South 154th/156th Way, the discharge of fill material in Borrow Area 1 and the upgrade of an existing gravel haul road (located northeast of Borrow Area 4) in accordance with the plans and drawings attached hereto which are incorporated in and made a part of this permit. Up to 980 linear feet of Miller Creek will be filled and relocated. Drainage channels in the Miller Creek basin (1,290 linear feet) and in the Des Moines Creek basin (100 linear feet) will also be impacted (to meet the public need for an efficient regional air transportation facility to…

Post Office Box 3755 Publication Date: 13 December 2002 Seattle, Washington 98124-3755 Telephone (206) 764-3495 Reference: 1996-4-02325 ATTN: Muffy Walker, Project Manager Name: Seattle, Port of

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