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Port of Seattle Seeks $198.1 Million Bail-out from Feds The Seattle daily papers have reported a closed-doors effort by the Port of Seattle to snag a huge Federal bail-out for the third-runway project (another $198.1 million). RCAA has issued a call for e-mails & phone calls to people in Congress to oppose this proposition. The Port claims that because they are being required to live up to the requirements of federal environmental law (such as the 1973 Clean Water Act), the federal government should reimburse them for their compliance costs. If this works, then the same principle should apply to every other project in the country where environmental mitigation is required! The fact is, of course, that the Port & its consultants have consistently mis-stated the true costs of the project, even when they were warned, over & over, that their estimates were invalid.
Contact Information for Representatives & Senators: To reach U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-9) (South-West King County), you may e-mail him at adam.smith@mail.house.gov . U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-7) (most of Seattle) does not reveal his e-mail address. You have to submit a comment through his website, & only if you live in his district. http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/ His office phone in the District of Columbia is 1.202.225.3106, & his office FAX number is 1.202.225.6197 U.S. Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-8) (Bellevue & other Eastside communities) does not reveal her e-mail address. You have to submit a comment through her website, & only if you live in her district. http://www.house.gov/dunn/ Her office phone in the District of Columbia is 1.202.225.7761. She does not list a D.C. FAX number. U.S. Senator Patty Murray -- Senator Murray's District of Columbia phone number is: 1-202.224-2621. Comments can be submitted through her website: http://murray.senate.gov/contact/ U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell -- Senator Cantwell's District of Columbia phone number is: 1.202.224.3441. Comments can be submitted through her website: http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/ Office telephone numbers for all U.S. Representatives & U.S. Senators can be found at the following websites: U.S. House of Representatives -- http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.php and the U.S. Senate -- http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
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