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Airport Noise Management

erage exceeds 65 decibels (The noise, 1988, p. 9). That noise level is somewhat louder than normal conversation (which is 60 decibels), and much quieter than the average household vacuum cleaner (which is 80 decibels). Federal law mandates that all aircraft operating within the United States and all airports in the country meet these standards by 2000 (Pilling, 1991, p. 17). Individual airlines are permitted to stretch this deadline by an additional three years, if hardship can be demonstrated.

The Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) is charged with the responsibility to develop rules for implementing the federal noise abatement legislation in the United States. The FAA desires uniform noise abatement procedures across the nation. Implementation of the federal policy at the local level requires extensive interaction between the federal and local levels of government. An illustration of the necessary interaction of the different levels of government is provided by the situation in the Seattle, Washington area.

In 1990, the municipalities and community groups around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac), the airlines that operate at that airport, and the Port of Seattle (operator of the airport), with the cooperation of the local FAA office, developed a noise abatement plan for Sea-Tac. This plan provides for much quicker attainment of noise reduction goals than that provided for in the federal legislation, as well as lower permissible noise levels.

FAA headquarters objected to the Sea-Tac plan because it was stricter than the proposed national guidelines. Congress, when it was considering noise abatement legislation in November 1990, at first attempted to scuttle the Sea-Tac agreement at the behest of the airlines and the FAA who preferred the less stringent provisions being written into the federal law. Eventually, the congressional delegation from the State of Washington was successful in getting the Sea-Tac ...

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