Item No. 8c Meeting Date: December 11, 2018 Federal Legislative Agenda for 2019 Port of Seattle Commission December 11, 2018 Eric Schinfeld, Sr. Manager, Federal Government Relations, Port of Seattle 1 Overview • Priority Agenda Items - Port-wide, Aviation & Maritime • Additional Issues - - • Supporting or Engaging Monitoring Next steps - Seek Commission adoption today - Engage Congress, Administration and key stakeholders to support and enact 2 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. Top Port Priorities 3 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: - Increased FAA engagement with local communities, including dedicated regional staffing for this purpose - Federal study of overflight noise on human health - Increased flexibility to address community needs • 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 2019 4 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 $50 million for 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 for Tacoma feasibility study. Top Port Priorities 5 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. • Terminal 5 Modernization Project: - Secure funding for the Terminal 5 Modernization Project • Safe and Efficient Cargo 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 Top Port Priorities 6 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 • 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 7 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 - Federal engagement on insider threat best practices based on the 8/10 unauthorized flight incident - In-flight sexual assault prevention efforts • Increased Community Focus: - FAA funding for replacement noise insulation packages - Federal ultra-fine particulate research - Alternatives to fluorinated fire-fighting foams • Expanded Sustainable Aviation Fuels Deployment: - Federal participation in the Port's Industry Day - US Department of Defense partnerships Support and Engage - Italics represent new items for 2019 8 Additional Priority Issue Areas: Maritime • Diesel Emissions Reductions, DERA and alternative fuels: - Support funding for the EPA DERA program and programs that support alternative fuel use at seaports • 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: - Support the Jones Act with limited flexibility to grant waivers Support and Engage 9 Additional Issues to Monitor Port-wide • Welcoming and Competitive Immigration & Trade Policies: - Real ID implementation - Foreign tourism promotion • Airport Communities Focus: - Environmental, economic & workforce development funding - 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 improvements - Research on the impact of TSO compensation on retention & net costs • Increased Community Focus: - Track evaluations of/alternatives for the 65 DNL noise mitigation standard - Increased federal innovation in addressing aircraft impacts Monitor - Italics represent new items for 2019 10 Next Steps • Today - • Ask Commission for adoption in public session Q1 2019 - - - Meetings with Congressional offices to distribute agenda and share priorities Build coalitions locally, statewide and nationally to implement Begin drafting key pieces of legislation and identifying legislative strategies & vehicles Questions? 11