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The Olympian reports today that Weyerhaeuser could begin exporting logs from the Olympia port in July.
The notices are part of the company's request to the state for a stormwater-discharge permit, the paper reports.
Weyerhaeuser signed a five-year lease with the Port of Olympia in 2005 expecting to move from Tacoma to Olympia by spring 2006.
But the project has faced opposition and several environmental challenges.
Weyerhaeuser spokesman Frank Mendizabal cautioned that the date is arbitrary and said the Federal Way timber company cannot begin operations at the Port of Olympia without the permit.
Here's the rest of the story:
Mendizabal would not be specific about when barges or log trucks could begin arriving in Olympia or whether Weyerhaeuser will begin operations with new offices and vehicle-repair facilities. Those facilities have not been constructed. Last week, he told The Olympian that Weyerhaeuser hoped to begin operations in Olympia before the end of 2008.
When Weyerhaeuser signed its port lease, it projected $1.5 million in new annual port revenue, the transfer of 36 jobs from Tacoma to Olympia and the need for 17 to 23 additional longshore jobs at the port. Critics, some of whom have sued, accused the port, the city and Weyerhaeuser officials of doing insufficient review of environmental effects from the project, including the effects on traffic and air, water, noise and light pollution.
Arthur West, a frequent port and Weyerhaeuser critic, said the company's unwillingness to pin down a starting date for operations is among the reasons the move has generated opposition.
Port commissioners George Barner and Paul Telford said they had not been briefed on when Weyerhaeuser might arrive, and Kari Qvigstad, the port's marketing and business development director, said port officials have received no firm start date.
The company has taken control of a 24.5-acre operations site on port property and made its first rental payment to the port this month.
