Hf Cong Smith Aviation Impacted Communities Act Bill Text Smit WA 002 Xml

To require the Federal Aviation Administration to provide funding for noise mitigation, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SMITH of Washington introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on llllllllllllll A BILL To require the Federal Aviation Administration to provide funding for noise mitigation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Aviation-Impacted 4 Communities Act’’. 5 SEC. 2. NOISE MITIGATION FOR VERTICAL FENCELINE 6 COMMUNITIES. 7 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, aviation- 8 impacted communities that are not currently within the 9 VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:14 Jan 07, 2025 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 C:USERSKGHAUFFAPPDATAROAMINGSOFTQUADXMETAL11.0GENCSMITWA_00 January 7, 2025 (1:14 p.m.) G:M19SMITWASMITWA_002.XML g:VHLD10725D010725.052.xml (959105|1) DNL standard as measured by the Federal Aviation 1 Administration shall be eligible for the Airport Improve-2 ment Program noise mitigation program funds and for 3 grants under section 7, and shall also be granted status 4 under section 5 to establish community boards to address 5 airport noise in their communities. 6 SEC. 3. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES STUDY, FRAME-7 WORK, AND DIAGNOSTIC TOOL. 8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall enter 9 into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to 10 conduct a study that— 11 (1) summarizes the relevant literature and 12 studies done on aviation impacts worldwide; 13…

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