Port of Seattle Mission 
The Port of Seattle is a public agency whose primary
mission shall be to invest public resources to
advance trade and commerce, promote industrial 
growth, stimulate economic development, and
create jobs. 
- Approved by the
Commission August 2009 



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Century Agenda Guiding Principles 
Approved by the Commission  August, 2009 
The Port should be a model of sustainable growth in a community
that is projected to continue growing. 
The Port must allocate its funds to those environmental efforts that
will yield the greatest environmental benefit. 
On broad environmental issues, the Port should partner with
tenants, regulatory authorities, local jurisdictions, other ports, and
non-governmental organizations to leverage its financial and
professional resources on issues. 
The Port's environmental policies and programs should enhance the
Port's economic competitiveness. 
The Port should provide a regular public accounting of its
environmental programs and outcomes.

Century Agenda Givens 
Adopted 2/24/11, by Century Agenda Committee and Port staff 
Airport: The existing three runways at SeaTac Airport
are assumed as a maximum. 
Seaport: POS will continue to be a major international
container, cargo, fishing & cruise Port, and the PNW will
continue to be a major trade gateway. The on-dock
container terminals will develop primarily through
investments within the current property footprint. 
Funding Strategy: Over the next 25 years, the Tax Levy
is an important funding mechanism for strategic
opportunities which cannot be financed otherwise.

Overarching 25-year Strategic Goal 
Draft Goal approved by the Commission on 6/27/11 

Overarching Goal: 
Add 100,000 new jobs to the existing
200,000 jobs in the region that are
attributable to the economic activity
created by the Port of Seattle.

For Each Focus Area 
1) Staff Subject
Experts: Propose
panelists, givens
and big questions 
Synthesize
Goals and
Objectives 
2) Develop
5) Staff proposes
emerging issues,
supporting 5-year
Public                                                          briefing info,
objectives 
Debate                                                          questions 

Final Goals
and
Objectives 

4) Full                      3) Century
Commission              Agenda
defines 25 year              Roundtable 
preliminary goal

Port of Seattle's 
Environmental Programs 
Ports are the front doors to our
communities 
Compliance 
Ports are the  or one of the  most
important and visible public facilities
Industry Leader                       Improved
Efficiency 
in most communities 
Ports can be entrepreneurial and
focus on long-term 
Reputation and
Economic
Improved
Benefits 
Public Profile 
Environmental leadership is good
business 
Risk Avoidance

Sea-Tac Environmental Compliance 
Stormwater Management     Property Remediation 
Individual NPDES Permit          Return contaminated
Mandatory effluent                  properties to productive use 
limitations                             Employment of Green and
Aircraft deicing fluid                   Sustainable Remediation
treatment                            (GSR) 
Air Quality                       Spill Prevention 
State/federal CAA                7/24 monitoring and
requirements                      response

Sea-Tac Environmental Leadership 
Reducing Emissions             Materials Use and Recycling 
PC Air and e-GSE Projects               Off-aircraft recycling 
SAFN                            Food composting in terminal
Decreasing Fossil Fuel Use       Improving Water Quality 
Energy conservation program             BMP implementation across facility 
Taxi contract 
Integrating Green Building        Education and Community
Practices                          Outreach
Terminal recycling education
LEED: RCF and Bus Maintenance
project 
Facility 
Aviation High School

Seaport Environmental Compliance 

Stormwater 
Management          Remediation 
Municipal Permit covering 1200          Restore contaminated
acres with no violations                     properties to productive
Tenant Working Groups & ECAP         public and/or port use 
Evaluate new technology               Multi-party coordination
involving Lower Duwamish
Alternatives and procedures 
Waterway and East
Waterway

Seaport Environmental Leadership 
Voluntary Emission Reduction    Tenant Education 
ABC Fuel Program                  Environmental Compliance
ScRAPS drayage truck                Assessment Program
program                             (ECAP) 
Cold Ironing (Shore Power) 
Northwest Clean Air Strategy 
Education and Community
Water Quality                       Outreach
Salmon Safe certification               T-117 Community outreach
30 Acres of habitat Enhanced           award 
Plastic Piling                             Sea-Air School 
Free drayage truck parking at
T-25

Seaport Environmental Programs 
Economy & Environment 
The "Green Gateway" 
Green Gateway               Environmental Regulations 
Supply Chain Carbon               Proactively implementing
Footprint.                                 "mandatory" environmental
Multi partner support                    guidelines years in advance 
Enhanced consumer               Partnering with Business and
awareness                         Regulators.
Lower Duwamish Habitat Plan 
Coexisting with Maritime
business

What should the Port's 
long-range environmental goals be? 
"The human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes has
placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of
human possibility, where all economies and ecologies are becoming
global, relational, and interconnected. Nature is no longer a realm
outside of our manipulation 
We must ask ourselves, now that we can do anything, what will
we do?" 
-Bruce Mau, world renowned design innovator-