Bellingham Comments from Digital Recorder - EISs for the Proposed ...

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. II
COURT REPORTER: BETH DRUMMOND PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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1 facilities.
2 That is in the county code. The county
3 council -- who doesn't by the way even have to hold a public
4 hearing on this matter -- will have to make that
5 determination, that there is no economic impact that's --
6 that's not compensated.
7 So this EIS has to dive into all of those issues:
8 Impacts on schools, transportation, transit, rail crossings,
9 fire protection, EMS issues. What did I miss?
10 There's a whole list of utilities: Water, sewer;
11 the whole thing needs to be considered.
12 You need to weave that through the EIS where you
13 can under the Environmental Impact Statement process.
14 I'd also like to talk about the alternatives, the
15 reasonable alternatives, for this project.
16 We need to make sure that the no-action
17 alternative, which you have not yet defined, meets no
18 action.
19 We need to have a baseline of this project so we
20 can study what the real impacts of this project are, on the
21 environment, on transportation, on all of these issues. You
22 need to make sure that no-action alternative means what it
23 says: No action. Thank you.
24 MS. STRAUSZ-CLARK: 8, 9, 10. 8 you're at the
25 microphone. 9 and 10 you're at the desk.