[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2564 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2564

 To require the Secretary of Transportation to periodically report the 
 number of individuals in the United States who are exposed to certain 
           levels of aviation noise, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2023

  Mr. Lynch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Transportation to periodically report the 
 number of individuals in the United States who are exposed to certain 
           levels of aviation noise, 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 ``Noise Data Collection Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Not less frequently than annually, the Secretary 
of Transportation, acting through the Administrator of the Federal 
Aviation Administration, shall submit to Congress, including the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives, and make publicly available, a report describing, for 
each year for which the report is submitted, the estimated number of 
individuals in the United States exposed to aviation noise at each of 
the following day-night average sound levels:
            (1) 65 dBA.
            (2) 55 dBA.
            (3) 46 dBA.
    (b) Retroactive Reporting.--In the first report submitted under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall include an estimation of the number 
of individuals in the United States exposed to aviation noise at the 
levels described in such subsection for each year during the period 
beginning on January 1, 2010, and ending on the last day of the year 
preceding the year for which the first report is submitted.
    (c) Inclusion in Other Reports.--
            (1) In general.--For any covered report in which the 
        estimated number of individuals exposed to aviation noise at a 
        day-night average sound level of 65 dBA is reported, the 
        Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that such report 
        includes the estimated number of individuals exposed to 
        aviation noise at day-night average sound levels of 55 dBA and 
        46 dBA.
            (2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term ``covered 
        report'' means any report, publication, presentation, or 
        testimony submitted by, or presented on behalf of, the 
        Department of Transportation, including the Federal Aviation 
        Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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