PORT OF SEATTLE 
MEMORANDUM 
COMMISSION AGENDA    Item No.   6b
Date of Meeting    June 1, 2010 
DATE:   May 14, 2010 
TO:     Tay Yoshitani, Chief Executive Officer
FROM:   Stephanie Jones Stebbins, Senior Manager
Roy Kuroiwa, Senior Environmental Program Manager
Anne Porter, Capital Project Manager 
SUBJECT: Request for Procurement Authorization - Consultant Support for
Terminal 117 Cleanup
Estimated Cost of this Procurement: $2,300,000
Source of Funds: Tax Levy (Environmental Reserves) 
ACTION REQUESTED:
Request authorization for the Chief Executive Officer to execute a Category III
professional services contract to provide consultant services and support for planning and
pre-design; design services, construction and monitoring support, and post-construction
monitoring expected to be required by a pending Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent ("Pending 2010
ASAOC") at the T-117 Early Action Area (EAA) cleanup site. (Funding for this work
has already been authorized, and was included in the Commission's 2010 environmental
reserve spending authorization, approved on November 30, 2009). The consultant will be
selected through a competitive process.
SYNOPSIS:
This memo requests authorization for procurement of consultant support services needed
for planning, design and implementation support activities (e.g., construction
documentation and performance monitoring) at the T-117 EAA cleanup site, which is
part of the Duwamish Superfund site. Contamination at the site is primarily from
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). An asphalt shingle plant, which operated on the
property for decades, is the most likely source of the PCB contamination. The Port
previously cleaned up parts of the site in 1999 and 2006. This authorization continues the
Port's plan to clean up T-117. The overall goal of the T-117 cleanup is to significantly
reduce or eliminate exposure to contamination and allow a full range of future site uses,
including industrial/commercial operations, public access and habitat restoration. The
City of Seattle will be contributing to the cost of cleanup, in addition to Department of

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Ecology grant funding under the Model Toxics Control Act. The Port's Environmental
Settlement fund will be used to pay any additional costs not covered by these sources."
ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND: 
The Port, King County, the City of Seattle (the City), and the Boeing Company are
participating in the investigation of sediment contamination in the Lower Duwamish
Waterway (LDW) Superfund Site under an administrative order issued by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Assessment activities have identified a number
of localized contaminated areas that EPA has determined should be addressed through
cleanup actions taken prior to a final EPA determination of cleanup requirements for the
LDW as a whole ("Early Action Areas"). One such location is the LDW sediments and
adjoining bank area in the vicinity of the Port property at Terminal 117 referred to as the
"T-117 EAA." The Port owns this sediment and bank area as the successor to
Commercial Waterway District No. 1.
Contamination in the T-117 area is primarily from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
which were used widely for decades, including for transformers and other electric
equipment, before their manufacture and use was banned in the United States in 1978. An
asphalt shingle plant operated on this property for many decades and, for a period of time
in the 1970s, that facility used waste transformer oil as fuel, which was likely tainted with
PCBs. Asphalt plant mishandling of waste transformer oil is the most likely source for
the majority of the PCB contamination in the vicinity of T-117.
In 1999, the Port carried out a cleanup of the former Waterway District property located
between the asphalt facility's property and the Waterway (referred to in earlier
Commission actions as the Malarkey Asphalt site). In exchange for carrying out this
cleanup action, payment of $176,400 and a covenant not to sue, Malarkey Asphalt, the
then-owner of the property, transferred ownership of its 1.92 acre parcel to the Port. The
Malarkey Asphalt site and the former Waterway District property were joined to become
the current T-117 property.
Following EPA's decision to list the LDW as a federal Superfund site and its subsequent
designation of the T-117 sediment site as an "Early Action Area," in May 2003, the Port
and the City entered into a Memorandum of Agreement to jointly fund the investigation
and remediation of contamination within the sediments and in the adjoining bank area of
this Early Action Area. In December 2005, the Port, the City and the EPA entered into an
"Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent (2005 ASAOC) for
Removal Action at the T-117 EAA. The Agreement requires the Port and the City to
prepare the site's cleanup alternatives report, also known as the Engineering
Evaluation/Cost analysis (EE/CA) for sediments, intertidal mudflats, bank, and a limited
portion of the adjacent uplands in the vicinity of T-117.

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During the investigation of the bank area, additional areas of contamination above action
levels were discovered on T-117 uplands that required immediate action. In addition,
EPA decided to revisit its prior assumptions regarding reasonably anticipated future land
uses. In June 2006, the Port Commission agreed to enter into a new ASAOC (the "2006
ASAOC") to authorize conducting this time-critical removal action, and to also direct
Port staff to consider other cleanup options for the site that would enable alternative uses.
The cleanup of the hotspots required under the 2006 ASAOC was performed that
summer.
Subsequent investigations of the upland area (by the Port) and adjacent streets and
residential yards (by the City) resulted in an expanded area of cleanup. (It now consists of
three subareas: T-117 Sediments, T-117 Uplands, and Adjacent Streets and Yards). In
addition, two recontamination assessment areas (the South Park Marina and Basin Oil)
were added to the scope of work. These changes were formally established in a revised
Statement of Work (SOW) which was approved by EPA in September 2007, and which
replaces the SOW for the 2005 ASAOC.
The draft EE/CA is expected to go out for public comment during the third quarter of
2010. Afterwards, EPA will formally approve the proposed actions in an Action
Memorandum, which is anticipated to be issued in the fourth quarter of 2010. We expect
that EPA will approve Cleanup Alternative 2: Upland and Sediment Removal and
Backfilling (no capping.) Alternative 2 provides a full soil and sediment cleanup
approach that requires no significant long-term monitoring or administrative controls, and
which will allow a full range of future site uses, including industrial/commercial
operations, public access and habitat restoration.
Typical environmental reserve projects have four phases that align with the accounting of
environmental liability recognition benchmarks. They are:
(1)    Remedial investigation and feasibility study (including EE/CA) ;
(2)    Design of the remedy (cleanup);
(3)    Remedy (cleanup) implementation; and,
(4)    Operations and maintenance.
The Commission previously provided authorization for the first phase of the work in the
2005 ASAOC. The remaining three phases will be authorized in the 2010 ASAOC,
which we expect to bring to Commission in November 2010. However, due to the
lengthy procurement process required, we are initiating consultant procurement at this
time in order to have a consultant in place once the 2010 ASAOC is finalized.
PROJECT JUSTIFICATION:
The overall goal of the T-117 cleanup is to significantly reduce or eliminate the exposure
of ecological and human receptors to sediment and soil contamination and thereby reduce
or eliminate adverse effects on resources in the Early Action Area (EAA.) Subsequently,

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the cleanup will allow a full range of future site uses, including industrial/commercial
operations, public access and habitat restoration.
PROJECT STATEMENT AND OBJECTIVES:
Project Statement: 
Comply with the SOW of the Pending 2010 ASAOC (eta November 2010) to perform
planning, detailed pre-design analysis, design agency reporting and permitting and
construction support, and operations and maintenance of the selected alternative as
presented in the Final EE/CA and EPA's Action Memorandum. This procurement for
design and support activities does not include consultant and contractor services for the
actual construction of the remedy, or long-term monitoring.
Project Objectives: 
The T-117 Project Objectives are:
Perform the required remedial design, construction support, and operation, and one
year of maintenance activities as required by the 2005 and 2010 ASAOC's, but not
including the actual construction of the remedy or long-term monitoring.
Perform the above work in accordance with EPA Statement of Work and Schedule
(i.e., attachments to the 2005 and Pending 2010 ASAOC's).
Manage and perform the work in accordance with local, state, and federal cleanup
laws and regulations, with project controls and contract systems in place.
Maximize cost recovery opportunities.
Identify and consider community values and concerns, as part of a formal Public
Participation Plan.
PROPOSED SCOPE OF WORK AND SCHEDULE:
Scope of Work: 
The scope of the anticipated design contract includes the following:
Environmental Review and Preliminary Design
Design Development and Documentation
Design Support, Data Gaps, and EE/CA Compliance Services
Permitting Support
Construction Support and Performance Monitoring
Prepare a Compliance Monitoring Plan (CMP)
First Year Operations and Monitoring
Project Management, Controls, and Administration Support

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Schedule: 
This procurement process for project support is expected to be concluded by the end of
November 2010.
The work pertaining to this authorization (T-117 EE/CA design and construction support)
is intended to begin around December 2010 and continue until around the end of 2014
(after completion of one year of operations and maintenance). However, design work
will not begin until the EE/CA is finalized, and the Port is actively negotiating the
pending 2010 ASAOC. A separate request for Commission authorization to advertise and
execute construction contract(s) for conducting the actual cleanup will be sought near the
end of the design-phase when construction documents are completed and ready to
advertise for bids.
The Port will secure long-term monitoring services under a separate procurement.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: 
Budget/Authorization Summary: 
This site was included in the Commission's 2010 environmental reserve spending
authorization, approved on November 30, 2009. Any additional environmental reserve
funds that may be required as the project moves forward will be reported annually to the
Commission via routine environmental reserve reports and spending authorization
requests.
Cost Estimate: 
The costs for these professional services are estimated to be a total of $2,300,000. This
estimate is based on the current preferred alternative, but may change depending on
EPA's selected alternative (presented in the Action Memorandum, expected by
September 30, 2010) and the terms and schedule laid out in the Pending 2010 ASAOC.
Source of Funds: 
All costs will be paid from environmental reserves and charged to non-operating expense
in accordance with Port Policy AC-9. The Port's Tax Levy will pay the costs for the
environmental reserves and associated environmental cleanup project that are not covered
by grants or other cost recovery measures (see below).
In 2008, the Commission authorized a settlement agreement with the Malarkey Parties,
the Duwamish Parties, the City of Seattle and King County regarding T-117, which
resolved litigation related to past and future claims for T-117 cleanup costs between all
parties. The proceeds from this settlement will be a primary source of funds for this

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project. Furthermore, under the terms of the settlement agreement, the City will pay 40%
of the costs incurred in the T-117 Sediments and Uplands. The City will pay 100% of the
costs of the cleanup in the Streets and Yards.
In addition, Port staff is pursuing grant funding from the Washington State Department of
Ecology for the design and construction work.
The approximate breakdown of the known source of funds for this phase of the T-117
Cleanup is:
City of Seattle cost sharing                  40%
Department of Ecology grant               30%
Other sources from settlement/Port costs          30%
ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND BUSINESS PLAN OBJECTIVES:
In addition to the numerous environmental and public health benefits, this cleanup action
will enhance future use of T-117 by reducing the possibility that future cleanup actions
will disrupt any tenant or future owner's activities.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:
This project will achieve the strategic objective of accomplishing cleanup of the Port's
property, while assuring that other responsible parties are paying their fair share.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND COMMUNITY BENEFITS:
Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA,) EPA reviews cleanup projects to ensure that they meet the substantive
requirements of federal and state laws and regulations that are applicable or relevant and
appropriate.
The project is located in the City of Seattle neighborhood of South Park, recognized as a
socially diverse and economically disadvantaged neighborhood with significant
environmental justice concerns. The T-117 site is located adjacent to single and multifamily
residences. Current, internal Port planning efforts are evaluating alternatives to
industrial or commercial uses, which includes some form of public access and aquatic
habitat restoration. Further, cleanup planning and design efforts will consider and
incorporate opportunities of materials reuse, recycling, and/or reduction. Finally, cleanup
implementation will include significant environmental controls and performance
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TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE:
State and federal laws require elimination of unacceptable levels of environmental risk
caused by the presence of contaminants in soil, groundwater and sediment. From the
perspective of the surrounding communities and the customers that we serve, the Port's
participation in site remediation is the hallmark of responsible environmental
stewardship.
ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS: 
Alternative 1: Wait to procure these services until the 2010 EPA Action Memorandum is
issued, or until the 2010 ASAOC is signed. The 2010 ASAOC will include project
schedules that must be adhered to or the Port could face enforcement action. Delay
arising from the Port's procurement process could result in missed deadlines and possibly
enforcement action.
Alternative 2: Procure only pre-design, planning, and communication support until a
cleanup alternative is selected and presented by EPA in the Pending 2010 ASAOC. This
alternative would require the Port to perform a second procurement for the design and
construction support work. This would result in a slack period where the Port is not
performing any design work and the Port may incur additional costs to go through a
second procurement process. In addition, it could result in a different consultant being
awarded the second phase of work. Consistency within and between the phases of work
is important in order to meet the exacting standards and deadlines in the Pending 2010
ASAOC.
Alternative 3: Procure all services for planning, pre-design, design, agency
reporting, construction support, development of operation and maintenance plans
and performance of first year of operation and maintenance. Starting the
procurement process now will result in signing a contract with the consultant
shortly before the pending 2010 ASAOC is signed. The Port can then move forward
on a timely basis to meet the provisions of the pending 2010 ASAOC with the
selected consultant. This is the recommended alternative. 
OTHER DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS REQUEST: 
2009 Public Participation Plan
2010 Draft EE/CA Document
2010 EE/CA Map Folio 
PREVIOUS COMMISSION ACTIONS OR BRIEFINGS: 
August 24, 1999 - Commission approved the purchase and sale agreement for the
acquisition of the Malarkey Asphalt Property at a cost of $176,400 and implementation of

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required environmental cleanup measures on adjoining Port property at a cost not to
exceed $800,000.
June 11, 2002 - Commission approved expenditure of $1,500,000 previously reserved for
aquatic sediment management and revision of the existing contract with Windward
Environmental, Inc to provide services required by the Environmental Protection
Agency's Order on Consent to continue work on the Lower Duwamish Sediments
Superfund site and the East Waterway Sediment Operable Unit of the Harbor Island
Superfund site.
August 24, 2004 - Commission approved execution of the Memorandum of Agreement
(Cost Allocation) between the Port and the City of Seattle for Malarkey Early Action
Area.
March 8, 2005 - Commission approved the project-wide authorization expenditure of
$8,102,200 for environmental cleanup action on Port properties during 2005.
October 11, 2005 - Commission approved execution of (1) Administrative Settlement
Agreement and Order on Consent for Removal Action T-117 Early Action Area; and, (2)
Administrative Settlement Agreement and Order on Consent for the T-117 Upland
Investigation.
December 8, 2005 - Commission approved the project-wide authorization expenditure of
$8,705,760 for environmental cleanup action on Port properties during 2006.
June 27, 2006 - Commission (1) approved execution of Administrative Settlement
Agreement and Order on Consent for Time Critical Removal Action in the T-117 Upland
Area; (2) directed staff to develop a work plan to expand the cleanup options in the T-117
Upland Area and (3) amended the 2006 project-wide authorization expenditure in the
amount of $6,000,000.
April 14, 2008 - Commission authorized the Chief Executive Officer to sign a
Memorandum of Agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
the Muckleshoot and Suquamish Tribes, the Washington Department of Ecology, and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Crediting Habitat Restoration Projects in and near the
Lower Duwamish Waterway relating to Future Settlement of Natural Resource Damages
Claims.
October 27, 2008 - Commission authorized the Chief Executive Officer to Sign a
Settlement Agreement with the Malarkey Parties, the Duwamish Parties, the City of
Seattle and King County regarding T-117 Site and Lower Duwamish Site Cleanup Costs,
and Natural Resource Damage Liability.