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	Restoration Activities - Commencement Bay Tacoma, Washington Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Commencement Bay natural resource trustees have developed a baywide restoration plan and are designing and building a series of habitat restoration projects using funds, property, and inkind services obtained through damage claim settlements.
		The trustees' restoration planning began with and was built upon the Commencement Bay Cumulative Impact Study (May/June 1993), which was developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
		That study analyzed the impact of dredge-and-fill activities on the bay's aquatic resources and identified restoration and mitigation options.
	www.darp.noaa.gov /northwest/cbay/restore.html (405 words)

	Commencement Bay Tacoma, Washington Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Planning - Northwest Region - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Overview: Commencement Bay is the harbor for Tacoma, Washington, located at the southern end of Puget Sound.
		The nearshore area and waterways of Commencement Bay are used extensively as rearing and feeding habitat by numerous marine species, and the bay serves as a migratory pathway for salmonids.
		NOAA's concerns about the Commencement Bay area involve the adverse effects to its trust resources caused by the release of hazardous substances in the bay and its waterways, and subsequent contamination of sediments on the bottom of the bay.
	www.darp.noaa.gov /northwest/cbay (525 words)

	Commencement Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Commencement Bay (CVE-105) was launched 9 May 1944 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Wash.; sponsored by Mrs.
		Commencement Bay reported at Seattle 1 February 1945 for duty as a training ship in Puget Sound until 2 October.
		During this time she trained 545 officers and 5,053 men of precommissioning crews for sister escort carriers, and qualified 249 pilots of eight air groups in carrier takeoffs and landings.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c11/commencement_bay.htm (170 words)

	NWsource: Outdoors: Paddling: Commencement Bay
		Planning Considerations: As Commencement Bay is a port of commerce, always stay alert to other watercraft and their movements.
		North Side of Commencement Bay: The launches closest to the docks and industrial points of interest in the waterways are an unimproved wayside and a marina just northwest of the entrance to Hylebos Waterway on Marine View Drive.
		Browns Point: Farther west along the north shore of Commencement Bay is Browns Point, an appropriate launch for a loop tour of the entire bay and the closest access from north of Tacoma.
	www.nwsource.com /outdoors/scr/of_detail.cfm?category=Paddling&rt=58 (1107 words)

	UW-Green Bay, News Archive, May 2004
		UW-Green Bay is being assisted in the planning process by staff from the UW System Office of Capital Planning and Budget and from the Division of State Facilities.
		The UW-Green Bay chapter of the 81-year-old organization was established in 1992 as the 299th chapter in the nation.
		GREEN BAY - If the weather on Saturday, May 15 does not allow for the traditional outdoor commencement, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay would hold two graduation ceremonies in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr. Half of the graduates would receive their diplomas at each ceremony.
	www.uwgb.edu /univcomm/news/archive/2004may.htm (9046 words)

	Commencement Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Commencement Bay is located along the southern portion of the Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
		Tideflats, deltas and estuarine habitats within Commencement Bay have been heavily impacted due to anthropogenic uses including dumping, dredging and industrial growth (Figure 1).
		For this report, we have examined eight sites within the Commencement Bay to compare their chemical, physical and biological properties with the locations from which they were extracted.
	courses.washington.edu /uwtocean/webg5 (199 words)

	DJC.COM: Duwamish cleanup can benefit from work in Tacoma, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats (CB/NT) consists of 10-12 square miles of shallow water, shoreline and adjacent land, most of which is developed and industrialized.
		The Commencement Bay Natural Resource Trustees have developed a Bay-wide restoration plan and are designing and building a series of habitat restoration projects utilizing funds, property, and in-kind services obtained as a result of settlements of natural resource damage claims.
		The Commencement Bay Trustees selected Squally Beach as a habitat restoration site because it was in a relatively unimpacted area of the heavily industrialized Tacoma tideflats.
	www.djc.com /news/enviro/11117863.html (1458 words)

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		One of those sites was a portion of Commencement Bay, part of Puget Sound in Washington State, which EPA listed as "Commencement Bay Near Shore/Tide Flats." After notice and comment, EPA promulgated the NPL as a final rule on September 8, 1983.
		In addition, a more general study of shoreline bay areas and waterways convinced EPA that pollution was reaching the Bay from a variety of other shoreline sources.
		EPA's investigations prior to the NPL listing confirmed that the site should include shallow bay areas, waterways, and shoreline, but without further study the agency could not identify all sources of pollution or the exact extent to which contamination had spread in the Commencement Bay area.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1990/sg900054.txt (2898 words)

	NOAA Restoration - Restoring Injured Habitats
		A major trans-Pacific port, the bay is home to chemical and concrete production and aluminum smelting plants, lumber mills, and oil storage facilities.
		As a result, almost all restoration in the area is designed to reclaim critical pieces of habitat for wildlife that depend on the bay for food and shelter.
		Commencement Bay is just one example of NOAA's work to reverse habitat degradation and loss so that fish and wildlife populations can thrive once more.
	restoration.noaa.gov /htmls/RIH_case.html (970 words)

	Conservation
		The Commencement Bay Cleanup Action Committee has been working on a restoration plan for the mouth of the creek, but currently has no funding to implement the plan.
		The head of the Middle Waterway adjacent to 11th Street East in one of the original mudflats of Commencement Bay is an intertidal area providing resting areas for migrating salmon, foraging areas for birds and small mammals, and tidal zone habitat for crabs and other shellfish.
		This clean sediment is deposited in the bay and a new delta area is forming at the mouth of the river.
	www.healthybay.org /Conservation.aspx?sm=Priorities (835 words)

	BAY AREA / Commencement speakers assailed / Conservative Catholics lobby schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mayor Gavin Newsom, scheduled to address graduates of the University of San Francisco's undergraduate school of business, is among 15 commencement speakers at Roman Catholic colleges nationwide who have been targeted for protest by a conservative Catholic group for being in conflict with church teachings on abortion, same-sex marriage or the death penalty.
		"To honor him at a commencement ceremony publicly after the battle we went through, whether it is intended or not, it is going to be seen as an act of defiance to the church," Reilly said.
		However, the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Ind., rescinded its invitation to former ABC News medical reporter Nancy Snyderman to give its commencement speech, after a bishop expressed concern about a 1997 interview in which she appeared to advocate that a woman pregnant with septuplets have some of the fetuses aborted.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/11/BAGUB6JA4U1.DTL (702 words)

	Commencement Bay Restoration: Jordan Site Planning
		This means that when the tide rises in Commencement Bay, it pushes a wedge of salt water all the way to the Jordan Site, mixing with the freshwater from the creek.
		The Commencement Bay Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Trustees, under the leadership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), intends to use the Property for stream habitat restoration to be conducted under the Commencement Bay Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Program.
		Citizens for a Healthy Bay - volunteer organization for environmental advocacy, restoration, education, public involvement, and stewardship in Commencement Bay.
	www.ridolfi.com /jordan (1923 words)

	Class Ring - Commencement Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Citizens for a Healthy Bay engages citizens to clean up, protect and restore Commencement Bay, surrounding waters and habitat.
		Commencement Bay Bed and Breakfast, Tacoma, Washington on 1st...
		Commencement Bay Bed and Breakfast, Tacoma, Washington on 1st Traveler's Choice Travel and Lodging Directory of Bed and Breakfast, Country Inns, and
	www.total-class-ring-resources.info /commencementbay (152 words)

	Toxic metals in Commencement Bay drop by 90 percent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Ecology’s study, Metals Concentrations in Commencement Bay Waterways During 1997-1998, concentrations of the toxic metals arsenic, zinc, copper and lead are better than federal clean-water standards.
		As the EPA makes progress on the contaminated sediments underneath the bay, additional improvements are expected, he said.
		Compared with 1984, today’s level of arsenic is reduced by 94 percent, zinc by 73 percent, copper by 92 percent and lead by 97 percent.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /news/1999news/99-047.html (540 words)

	WDFW -- From the Director: Commencement Bay Ceremony
		This is a day to celebrate successes in the restoration of the Commencement Bay environment.
		Commencement Bay, of course, is not an isolated example.
		Today, here at Commencement Bay, we are celebrating our success in beginning to restore some of these necessary types of intertidal areas.
	wdfw.wa.gov /depinfo/director/oct1100a.htm (629 words)

	Smith (WA09) - Press Release - Smith Says Commencement Bay Cleanup Critical To Region's Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At a forum to discuss cleanup and habitat restoration in the Commencement Bay Superfund site on August 29th, host Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith pledged his support to the Commencement Bay cleanup, saying that quick and thorough cleanup was critical to the region's future.
		Sponsoring the event was the Commencement Bay Cleanup Action Committee, an organization made up of representatives from local businesses, the City, the Port, and citizen groups.
		"The cleanup of Commencement Bay under Superfund is one of the biggest issues facing the Port and the community," said Smith.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/wa09_smith/970904pr.html (274 words)

	Commencement Bay Trustees and Partners Celebrate Habitat Restoration Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition to NOAA, the Natural Resource Trustees for Commencement Bay are the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the State of Washington through its departments of Ecology, Natural Resources, and Fish and Wildlife, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.
		Middle Waterway: Nearly two acres of intertidal marsh and riparian buffer along one of the few remaining original mudflats within Commencement Bay is re-established by the excavation and regrading of the southwest shore of the waterway.
		Commencement Bay, the harbor for Tacoma, is a deep-water embayment at the southern end of Puget Sound.
	www.nwr.noaa.gov /1press/cbrelfnl.htm (673 words)

	Cleaning up Commencement Bay Contaminated Soils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Workers are building a specialized treatment plant adjacent to the Pioneer Chlor Alkali Co. And the Port of Tacoma is getting ready to convert its Blair Slip 1 into a repository for sediments from both the Hylebos and Middle waterways.
		EPA added the Olympic View hot spot to its Commencement Bay Superfund list after federal officials found out about the dioxin.
		Last year, the city paid a $50,000 federal penalty because city officials had failed to disclose that the toxin was on the site.
	www.remtech1.com /commencement_bay_cleanup.htm (635 words)

	Industrial Reporting, Inc. Article - Stimpson Mills Go to New Strapping Technology
		In a single line mill like the Commencement Bay plant, every piece of equipment has a vital part to play in the profitability of the overall operations, Collin said.
		The Commencement Bay mill is located almost at the exact center of Washington’s great Douglas fir and hemlock forests.
		Safety is a paramount concern at the Commencement Bay mill, according to Collin.
	www.timberlinemag.com /articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=875 (1641 words)

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		Excavation or re-grading of the 1.65 acres vacant upland property, located adjacent to and within the southwest shore of the Waterway should facilitate the establishment of intertidal marsh and riparian buffer bordering one of the few remaining original mudflats within Commencement Bay.
		The site is a natural fill of unconsolidated glacial till which slid off of the hillside above into Commencement Bay in 1938; the shape of the riparian point of land extending onto the beach is the result of this slide and subsequent wave erosion from the Bay.
		The emergent plant species will be similar to those found elsewhere in Commencement Bay and will utilize the freshwater component from Hylebos Creek.
	beta.darp.aspensys.com /northwest/cbay/mon-g.html (1358 words)

	Washington State Department of Natural Resources:
		This is part of a coordinated plan to rejuvenate the health of Commencement Bay, one of the largest ports on the west coast.
		Public and private Commencement Bay Natural Resource Damage Trustees are involved in the cleanup and restoration of the Bay, reestablishing a healthy ecosystem while retaining the commercial viability of the port and businesses in the area.
		In 1999, DNR withdrew the southern half of the waterway from leasing, in an effort to protect one of the last remaining mud flats in Commencement Bay.
	www.wa.gov /dnr/htdocs/adm/comm/nr03_067.htm (1038 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Commencement Bay, South Tacoma Field, Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
		The Commencement Bay, South Tacoma Field site occupies 260 acres of land located in the southwestern section of the city of Tacoma in Pierce County, Washington.
		The Commencement Bay, South Tacoma Field Superfund site occupies 260 acres of land located in the southwestern section of the city of Tacoma in Pierce County, Washington (Appendix - A, Figure 1).
		Later, the Commencement Bay site was divided into two separate sites, Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats and South Tacoma Channel.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/commence/cbay_p1.html (4674 words)

	Support
		Originally founded in 1990 to provide the community with a voice in the Commencement Bay Superfund cleanup, CHB remains a vocal participant in the cleanup process.
		Commencement Bay has already been radically altered by human activity.
		Nominees are accepted in five categories based on a demonstrated commitment to protecting and restoring Commencement Bay and Tacoma's surrounding environment.
	www.healthybay.org /Support.aspx (313 words)

	UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 35 No. 70
		Unless it rains, commencement will be held in the outdoor amphitheater north of the main entrance drive on the campus.
		As UW-Green Bay's first chancellor — and first employee — Weidner was instrumental in defining the mission, academic plan and campus of the new and innovative institution.
		Other UW campuses will be holding their commencements during the next week or two.
	www.uwgb.edu /univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive35/2004may13.htm (877 words)

	Boats allegedly sunk illegally in Commencement Bay
		A Commencement Bay marina owner is being investigated for illegally sending dozens of boats to watery graves -- some of them still loaded with fuel.
		News of the scuttled boats was troubling to environmentalists in light of the massive amount of work that has been done to restore Commencement Bay, which was declared a Superfund site because of industrial pollution.
		The boats ultimately will be hauled out of the bay to prevent additional fuel and oil from leaking out, officials said.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/163180_sunk04.html (546 words)

	COMMENCEMENT BAY SETTLEMENTS PAVE WAY FOR RESTORATION
		The Commencement Bay natural resource trustees include NOAA as the lead federal trustee; the U.S. Department of the Interior, including the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; the Washington Department of Ecology; the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.
		The goal of the projects is to restore, enhance and preserve habitat of importance to fish, other marine species, birds and wildlife affected by the release of hazardous substances to the Commencement Bay environment.
		Projects were selected to benefit a variety of habitats in areas identified by the trustees, responsible parties, local governments and members of the public through a bay-wide restoration planning process.
	www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov /pr96/oct96/noaa96-r903.html (593 words)

	Commencement Bay Bed & Breakfast in Tacoma, Washington, United States near Pt. Defiance Zoo , Washington State History ...
		Commencement Bay Bed & Breakfast in Tacoma, Washington, United States near Pt.
		Breathtaking bay and mountain views are everywhere--from guest rooms, the dining room, and the fireside livingroom area.
		All three rooms are quite large and each has different, comfortable decor with top quality queen-size beds, roomy closet or dresser space, and bedside reading lights.
	www.innsite.com /inns/A002001.html (336 words)

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	www.corrugated-2005-2006.com /19/commencement-bay-corrugated.html (264 words)

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