Truth in Aviation: Newsletter of the Regional Commission on Airport Affairs
 



August 10, 2004
Vol.12, No.1

Runway Funding Still Falls Short:
FAA Offers $61 Million– Less Than
One Third of Port's Request
Port of Seattle plans for funding current work on the third-runway project were subjected to a severe jolt on July 21, when the Federal Aviation Administration decided to make a supplemental grant of only $61.9 million, rather than the $198.1 million requested by Sea-Tac officials. ...more

Sea-Tac Not Ready for A380
In mid-July, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) announced that it had acquired full airfield & terminal certification from the FAA to allow the Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft to use the Bay Area facility.
Sea-Tac Airport, which aspires to be a world-class airport, competing with New Denver and with airports in Los Angeles & the Bay Area, is not ready to handle the 380. ...more

Eight-Day Hearing Exposes Weaknesses
In Pollution Permit for Sea-Tac Airport
Always seeking to avoid its responsibility for polluting local streams, the Port of Seattle argued strenuously before the Pollution Controls Hearings Board (PCHB) in late July that neither Lake Reba nor the Northwest Ponds are “waters of the State” entitled to full legal protection from Airport-generated pollution. ...more

PSRC workshop
The eighth annual Puget Sound Regional Council workshop to review compliance with PSRC Res. A-96-02 (which gave planning approval for the Sea-Tac third runway) is scheduled for 7 p.m., Wednesday, October 20. For the first time, this event will be held in the airport communities, at the Highline School District's board room, 15675 Ambaum Boulevard SW, Burien. ...more

Ecology Must Follow Supreme Court Order,
ACC Tells Pollution Board
Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) has filed an appeal of Ecology's most recent revised sec. 401 certification & accompanying order, dated 7 June 2004. ...more


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C.A.S.E. attorney Rick Poulin looks on while Ass't Attorney General Joan Marchioro examines a witness before the Pollution Control Hearings Board, during last month's hearing on the most recent NPDES permit for Sea-Tac Airport.
 
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