PORT OF SEATTLE 
MEMORANDUM 

COMMISSION AGENDA  STAFF BRIEFING 
Item No.        7a 
Date of Meeting   January 12, 2010 
DATE:    December 22, 2009 
TO:      Tay Yoshitani, Chief Executive Officer 
FROM:    Michael Burke, Senior Manager, Seaport Container Leasing and Operations 
Sarah Flagg, Seaport Air Quality Program Manager 
SUBJECT:  Port of Seattle Seaport Air Quality Program Update 
SYNOPSIS: 
Staff will update the Commission regarding the status of the Seaport Air Quality Program
accomplishments that have occurred since the last staff briefing on August 25, 2009. This
update will include implementation status of the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy, including
cargo-handling equipment retrofits, the At-Berth Clean Fuels Vessel Incentive Program and The
Clean Truck Program, as well as the Green Gateway Initiative. Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
staff will give an overview of the 'Seaport Truck Scrappage and Retrofits for Air in Puget Sound
(ScRAPS)' program, which was launched on November 18, 2009. We are beginning to see
success as various parts of the Strategy are implemented. 
BACKGROUND: 
In April 2007, the Port of Seattle and our partners published the 2005 Puget Sound Maritime Air
Emissions Inventory.  This inventory, which located and quantified all maritime-related
emissions from cargo-handling equipment, trains, trucks, harbor vessels, and ocean-going vessels
in the greater Puget Sound region, remains the most comprehensive effort of its kind and the first
to include greenhouse gases.  Port of Seattle staffs, in partnership with Port of Tacoma,
Washington Department of Ecology, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, and U.S. EPA, are in the
preliminary stages of planning an update to this emissions inventory for the year 2011.
On January 22, 2008, the Port of Seattle Commission adopted the Northwest Ports Clean Air
Strategy, a voluntary and collaborative effort of the Ports of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver
(B.C.) to reduce maritime and port-related emissions that affect air quality and climate change in
the Pacific Northwest.  Developed in close collaboration with the Puget Sound Clean Air
Agency, Washington Department of Ecology, US  Environmental Protection Agency, and
Environment Canada with input from stakeholders, customers, and citizens, the Strategy will
result in emission reductions to further improve air quality throughout the region.

COMMISSION AGENDA 
Tay Yoshitani, Chief Executive Officer 
December 22, 2009 
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The strategy has three primary emissions reduction objectives: 
Reduce maritime and port-related air quality impacts on human health, the environment and
the economy; 
Reduce contribution to climate change through co-benefits associated with reducing air
quality impacts; and 
Help the Georgia Basin-Puget Sound region continue to meet air quality standards and
objectives. 
The Strategy builds on the significant efforts the Ports of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, BC
have invested in emission reductions and establishes common short-term (2010) and long-term
(2015) performance measures for further reducing emissions from cargo-handling equipment,
rail, harbor vessels, ocean-going vessels, and trucks. 
On April 14, 2009, the Port of Seattle Commission adopted the Customer Support Package and
Clean Truck Program, including authorization for the Chief Executive Officer to enter in to an
Agreement with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency to provide $2.5 million from the 2009/2010
Port of Seattle budget to diesel emissions related to the maritime industry in the Puget Sound
region consistent with the Strategy. 

OTHER DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS BRIEFING: 
Memorandum of Understanding with Puget Sound Clean Air Agency 
PowerPoint