[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 557 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 557

 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
    modify the Expanded East Coast Plan for the purpose of reducing 
aviation noise in the States of New York and New Jersey, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 1993

Mr. Zimmer (for himself, Mr. Gallo, and Mr. Torricelli) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Public Works and 
                             Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
    modify the Expanded East Coast Plan for the purpose of reducing 
aviation noise in the States of New York and New Jersey, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expanded East Coast Plan Rollback 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF AVIATION NOISE IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY.

    (a) Modifications to Expanded East Coast Plan.--Not later than 
eighteen months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall modify the 
Expanded East Coast Plan for the purpose of reducing aviation noise in 
the States of New York and New Jersey and begin implementation of such 
modifications.
    (b) Use of Ocean Routes.--In modifying the Expanded East Coast Plan 
pursuant to subsection (a), the Administrator shall to the greatest 
extent practicable reroute aircraft using air routes over the States of 
New York and New Jersey to air routes over the Atlantic Ocean and, in 
cases in which such rerouting is not practicable, reroute such aircraft 
to the air routes used before adoption of the Expanded East Coast Plan.
    (c) Supplemental EIS.--The Administrator shall issue a supplemental 
environmental impact statement pursuant to the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 to include the effects of modifications to the 
Expanded East Coast Plan made pursuant to this section.
    (d) Report to Congress.--Not later than eighteen months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall transmit to 
Congress a report containing a description of modifications to the 
Expanded East Coast Plan made pursuant to this section.

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