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Stuart Jenner, concerned citizen and Seatac Airport neighbor December 13, 2024 This is a rough draft, written in great haste. Some of the content is duplicative. Some is sarcastic. Some is no doubt wrong, or not based on complete information of what’s in the 4000 + pages. Oh well. There’s no search function that appears to work for the documents. Trying to make sense of several hundred pages a day is hard. Did you know War and Peace is around 972 pages to 1400 pages, depending on the edition? Could you read War and Peace 3 or 4 times in a month and half and make sense of it? That’s the ballpark of the number of pages. I got through maybe one third of them. Would neutral observers guess that the people who set this deadline have a great deal they don’t want readers to see or understand? Structure of this writeup: • Introductory comments • What is sustainability? • What would a sustainable airport look like? What projects would we be working on? • Comments on specific projects Introductory comments Dear Port Commissioners, and FAA and Port readers of SAMP comments, base the following comments on reading about 1/3 of the pages on the SAMP web site. What I’m sending is the worst writeup I’ve ever done: it is a rough draft, it has some repetition, there are some comments I made where I later found what may be partial answers to comments ….. but in the time you…

This project should not be approved for the following reasons: 1) The premise or purpose and need is false 2) Mortality and morbidity rates of those most affected by continued increases of pollution sources are already high, adverse and disproportionate 3) The air pollution calculations used for decision making surrounding the Clean Air Act and NAAQS compliance are untrustworthy 4) A completely inadequate cumulative impact analysis is presented that fails to account for the existing public health impacts 5) Missing a proper environmental justice analysis and engagement 6) Missing an analysis of children’s health 7) Climate THE PREMISE OR PURPOSE AND NEED IS FALSE EPA Scoping Comments dated 9/28/2018 said: “The proposed projects therefore would assist in accommodating that projected growth, which would also occur with or without the projects.” However, FAA has said the following in 2020: “However, airports with significant congestion and constraints can have firm constraints that preclude further operations growth. Firm constraints can include lack of gate availability to schedule new flights or demand that systemically exceeds runway capacity.”1(bold and italics added) Capacity Accommodating the growth is the goal. Without the expansion program it may not be possible to host the growth in a safe manner. Congestion on runways and for landing and takeoff operations is managed to protect aviation safety, which is the primary goal of the FAA. We should not be required to accept the idea that a congested airport will occur while at the same time knowing FAA would never allow a level…

The Puget Sound region is expected to grow by another one million people by 2035. The Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) is the blueprint for changes at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) to meet future forecasted demand. SAMP identi�es 31 Near-Term Projects (NTPs) that are intended to improve e�ciency, safety, access to the airport, and support facilities for airlines and the airport. The NTPs, if approved, will be complete or under construction by 2032. SAMP and the scoping process for the environmental review was completed in 2018. Currently, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Environmental Assessment (EA) and 45-day public comment period is underway for SEA’s SAMP recommended 31 NTPs. At the conclusion of the comment period on December 5, 2024, all comments received will be reviewed and taken into consideration by the FAA and the Port during the preparation of the �nal NEPA EA. Responses to comments will be included in the �nal EA. Submit a public comment online through our website or by sending us an email: • Email: samp@portseattle.org • Website: https://www.sampntpenvironmentalreview.org/ Submit a public comment by mail: Mr. Steve Rybolt Port of Seattle, Aviation Environment and Sustainability P.O. Box 68727 Seattle, WA 98168 Submit a public comment at one of four public meetings: • Tuesday, November 12 Wildwood Elementary School (Federal Way), 6 pm – 8 pm • Wednesday, November 13 Mount Rainier High School (Des Moines), 6 pm – 8 pm • Thursday, November 14 Highline High School (Burien), 6 pm – 8 pm • Saturday,…