TagSustained Airport Master Plan(3)

This document constitutes the comments of the Regional Commission on Airport Affairs (RCAA) in response to your request for written comments for your scoping process on the "Sea Tac Master Plan Update, including a third runway." The RCAA is a coalition of various citizen groups, municipal governments and individuals who have a long-standing interest in airport issues and has submitted extensive comments, professional reports and testimony on behalf of our members and member groups in various forums on this subject. This document will also constitute the individual comments of the various participants in the RCAA coalition, though individual members may submit separate comments. In addition to the comments provided herein, we incorporate by reference previous our comments on the related Puget Sound Air Transportation Committee Flight Plan Environmental Impact Statement (hereinafter referred to as the Flightplan E.I.S.) and testimony and presentations to the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) during their consideration of the Flightplan E.I.S. We also reviewed the comment submitted by the PSRC asking that all issues identified in the Flightplan Final E.I.S. as "items be covered in the site specific E.I.S" be covered. We concur and incorporate their comment by reference. Rather than repeat all these instances, we ask that each and every instance in the Flightplan E.I.S.--whether in that instance was in the body of the document or response to public comment--was deferred to the "site specific" or a later E.I.S. must be included in this Environmental Impact Statement. In our comments we will repeatedly use certain…