Item No. 6i_supp
Meeting Date: January 28, 2020
Draft Federal Legislative Agenda for 2020
Briefing to Port of Seattle Commission
January 28, 2020
Ryan McFarland, Federal Government Relations Manager, Port of Seattle
Eric Schinfeld, Sr. Manager, Federal Government Relations, Port of Seattle



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Overview
Priority Agenda Items  Port-wide, Aviation & Maritime
Additional Issues
Supporting or Engaging
Monitoring
Next steps
Seek Commission adoption
Share priorities with federal stakeholders, and begin implementation


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Priority Agenda Items  Port-wide
Welcoming and Competitive Immigration & Trade Policies:
Immigration policies that ensure Port success as well as welcoming of local immigrants and refugees
Productive, strategic engagement on trade, ensuring tariffs and quotas are targeted and a last resort;
prioritize trade promotion and infrastructure with tariff collection revenues.
Comprehensive Solutions to Address the Climate Crisis:
Comprehensive proposals for sector-specific and economy-wide solutions to address the climate crisis,
reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other harmful toxic pollutants, provide flexibility to
respond to changing market conditions and technological advances, and put the United States on the
path to a clean and prosperous economy.


Top Port Priorities  Italics represent new items for 2020
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Priority Agenda Items  Aviation
Sufficient Infrastructure Funding and Flexibility:
Raise the federal PFC cap, maintaining Commission oversight
Efficient and Safe Airport Operations:
Partner with CBP to ensure success of the International Arrivals Facility (staffing, ORAT)
Partner with TSA to reduce wait times (staffing, canines and technology)
Increased Airport Community Focus:
FAA Reauthorization priorities identified by StART: evaluation of the 65 DNL noise standard; study of
overflight noise/human health; and proposed environmental mitigation pilot program.
StART federal priorities: Smith ultra-fine particulates bill, Lynch aircraft expert consensus act, Smith
secondary noise mitigation investments bill, alternatives to commercial airplane travel.
Expanded Sustainable Aviation Fuels Deployment:
Use of airport & federal grant revenue for benefits of fuel switching
Federal incentives for research, as well as feedstock processing and fuel production facilities
Top Port Priorities  Italics represent new items for 2020
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Priority Agenda Items  Maritime
Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) Reform:
Reform the HMT to not disadvantage US ports and provide greater equity for donor ports
Secure the "donor port" HMT rebate program
Fishing Fleet Modernization:
Reform NOAA's Fisheries Finance Program (FFP)
for fishing vessels
Increase the FFP loan authority
Seattle and Tacoma Harbor Deepening:
Obtain funding for design for deepening federal channels serving T-18, T-30 and T-5 in
Seattle and support Tacoma feasibility study.

Top Port Priorities
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Priority Agenda Items  Maritime (cont'd)
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks Funding:
Advocate for funding for continued federal operation and maintenance of the locks
National Freight Policy and Funding:
Support funding for a strengthened national multimodal freight
strategy and related grant programs, including TIGER/BUILD.
Support sustainable revenue source for freight.
Safe and Efficient Cargo and Passenger Screening:
Advocate for adequate CBP staffing levels
Ensure the federal responsibility for funding CBP services,
equipment and facility development
Puget Sound Restoration:
Support federal resources for Puget Sound restoration
Regulatory reform to speed habitat site development
Support federal engagement in orca recovery
Support funding for maritime innovation
Top Port Priorities  Italics represent new items for 2020
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Additional Priority Issue Areas: Port-wide
Welcoming and Competitive Immigration & Trade Policies:
Trade policies that open new markets and level playing fields, while
protecting workers and the environment
Permanent protections for DACA-eligible residents
Partnerships to welcome immigrants and refugees to the Port
Standardized federal regulations on biometric technology/data
Sufficient Infrastructure Funding and Flexibility:
Increased aviation, maritime and freight-mobility funding through
appropriations or comprehensive investment legislation
Increased Community Focus:
Improve human trafficking prevention and intervention efforts
Support and Engage  Italics represent new items for 2020
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Additional Priority Issue Areas: Aviation
Sufficient Infrastructure Funding and Flexibility:
Federal and Congressional support for current and future airport capital projects
Efficient and Safe Airport Operations:
CBP staffing appropriations and TSA law enforcement grant funding
Increased Seattle-based flights into DCA
Increased funding for UAS detection/mitigation;
increased local law enforcement authority
Expedited airfield management program deployment
Increased Community Focus:
Alternatives to fluorinated fire-fighting foams
Expanded Sustainable Aviation Fuels Deployment:
Pursue policies through the annual National Defense
Authorization Act that leverage the U.S. Department of Defense as a key partner in sustainable
aviation fuels research and implementation.
Support and Engage  Italics represent new items for 2020
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Additional Priority Issue Areas: Maritime
Emissions Reductions, DERA and alternative fuels:
Support funding for the EPA DERA program and programs that support alternative fuel use at
seaports and encourage efforts at the IMO to reduce vessel emissions
Pebble Mine at Bristol Bay and Offshore Drilling
Oppose mining activity in the Bristol Bay watershed that put fisheries at risk.
Oppose offshore oil and gas drilling in both state and federal waters off the coastline of
Washington state.
Jones Act and Domestic Cargo:
Support the Jones Act with limited flexibility to grant waivers
Advocate for funding and policies that support the Port's domestic cargo activity

Support and Engage  Italics represent new items for 2020
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Additional Issues to Monitor
Port-wide
Welcoming and Competitive Immigration & Trade Policies:
Real ID implementation
Foreign tourism promotion
Census 2020
Community Focus:
Environmental, economic & workforce development funding & support
Local government priorities, such as housing and transportation
Aviation
Efficient and Safe Airport Operations:
PreCheck expansion and TSA innovation
Air Traffic Control system-wide investments
FAA Safety Management Systems improvement
Appropriate Urban Air Mobility policy and regulation
TSA reimbursements to airports for checkpoint-area janitorial services

Monitor  Italics represent new items for 2020
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Next Steps
January 28, 2020  Ask Commission for adoption in public session
February 2020  Meetings with Congressional offices to distribute agenda and share
priorities



Questions?
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