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4. Track initiatives to ensure cost-competitiveness for SAF through a variety of
methods that are not mutually exclusive, and as stated in the December 19, 2017,
motion, to include:
a. Work with airlines to support state and federal legislation establishing a cost-
effective low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) consistent with bills, executive
orders, policies, and regulations implemented in the states of California and
Oregon and the province of British Columbia; or similar provision that includes
options for aviation tax credits as well as tax credits for use of marine and on-
road renewable diesel.
b. Work with airlines to advocate to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
federal and state legislators, regulatory agencies, industry groups, and other
partners for use of airport revenues to offset costs of SAF through their co-
benefits to human health and the environment.
c. Work with airlines to advocate to the FAA for new grant programs, or to adjust
existing Voluntary Airport Low Emissions (VALE) grant programs to support SAF
through their co-benefits.
d. Seek mutual financial investments with the port and its partners.
5. Work with port staff and local, state, and federal decision-makers to develop a
comprehensive, coordinated series of events to engage interested stakeholders
along the value chain including but not limited to: farmers, financiers, bio-refiners,
logistics operators, as well as end-users such as Washington state ferries, cruise
lines, tug boat operators, other harbor craft, truck operators, fishing boats, the
United States Coast Guard, and the Department of Defense.
6. Work with Public Affairs to develop a strategic communications plan tailored to
the commission’s SAF goals that positions the Port of Seattle as a leader in the SAF
industry locally, nationally, and internationally.
7. Review and recommend sustainability certification standards for SAF.
C. Blue Carbon Policy Development, including:
1. Develop a blue carbon policy in collaboration with the University of Washington
for incorporation into the port’s aquatic habitat restoration work. Blue carbon is
the carbon stored and sequestered in coastal ecosystems such as wetlands,
seagrass meadows, or intertidal saltmarshes. These valuable ecosystems hold vast
carbon reservoirs; they sequester atmospheric CO
2
through primary production
and then deposit it in sediments.