1997-05-01 00:00
Sea-Tac Airport Master Plan Update Final EIS APPENDIX R RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT To facilitate the receipt of comments, two public hearings were held concerning the Master Plan Update Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS): • June 1, 1995: at the SeaTac Red Lion Hotel from 1 p.m. until 10 p.m. Simultaleous with the conduct of the hearing, a workshop was conducted to assist the public widr urderstanding the contents of the Draft EIS. Testimony was provided by 77 individuals urd dre workshop/hearing was attended by about 150 people. June 14, 1995: at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Federal Way from 6 p.m. urtil IO p.m. Testimony was received 6:om 15 individuals. This hearing was attended by about 40 people. • The hearing record remained open until August 3, 1995, representing a public and agency comment period of 90 days. All of the comments submitted during the 90-day comment period were reviewed mId responses have been prepared to address all applicable comments. In many instances, the comments resulted in additional analysis that has been included in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS). To aid in the review of comlnents and the preparation of responses, the comments were grouped by issue and/or chapter of the Draft EIS. A code was then given to each unique comment to facilitate the review of the individual comment and the identification of the corresponding response. Each code corresponds to a comment in the hearing transcript or correspondence (provided in…