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

GATEWAY PACIFIC TERMINAL EIS SCOPING HEARING VOL. I
COURT REPORTER: GWEN BRASS PROCEEDING DATE: October 27, 2012
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about this process and provide comments, so I'm reminding you
that if you don't have a number, you can provide comments in
writing through our website, individual comments. So there're
lots of ways to do that.
And the other thing you need to know is we're not
required to provide verbal comment opportunity during scoping.
We're doing this because we heard from the community very
clearly this is something that people really wanted to have an
opportunity to do, so we're doing that for that reason.
We have a timer. So now I'm going to tell you a
little bit about what we're looking for in the comments. We
want to hear you comments about alternatives and about
potentially effective resources to assist with the analysis.
So that's really what kind of comments we're looking for.
The rules are that you have a number. You'll have
two minutes to make a comment. There's a device up front that
will signal to you when your two minutes is up. So it's pretty
obvious that -- it'll beep when you have 45 seconds, it will
turn yellow, and then it will be at two minutes. If you don't
stop speaking at two minutes, I'll turn your microphone off.
There are two waiting spots here on the side. We're
going to go in numerical order, 1 to 100, so number 1, 2, 3
make your way down to the podium, that would be great.
I'm going to ask you to fill out a blue card for the
mailing list at the top if you're a speaker so we can make sure