Category : Legislation(147)
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2024-01-03HB2103
Port districts authorized to undertake programs for the abatement of aircraft noise,,, must additionally undertake a remedial mitigation program... Remedial mitigation programs must consist of... repair or replacement of failed mitigation equipment... The provision of air quality mitigation equipment to residential, recreational, or educational facilities that will measurably improve air quality... Programs to provide urban forests or green space within an impacted area... -
2023-10-24Property Tax Levy 2023 (and a few words about sex trafficking)
Commissioners, It’s with an increasingly heavy heart we take in your discussion of the Property Tax Levy every year now. Despite your claims to be the most progressive commission ever, the tax levy is evidence that your relationship with the cities under the flight path, especially fence line communities, is steadily becoming less equitable with -
2023-06-15HR 4178 Quiet Communities Act of 2023
118th CONGRESS BILLS-118hr4178ih To reestablish the Office of Noise Abatement and Control in the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sponsors Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Cárdenas, Ms. Chu, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Norton, Mr. Schiff, and Mr. Sarbanes) introduced the following bill; which -
FAA Reauthorization 2023: Community Use Of Airport Land
Like many agencies of the Federal Government, the law giving life to the FAA needs to be reauthorized periodically. The last bill was in 2018 and the current version will be passed this year. A reauthorization bill is something of a misnomer. The first page reauthorizes the agency; the remaining hundreds and hundreds of pages -
Cantwell, Cruz, Duckworth, Moran Introduce Bipartisan FAA Reauthorization
June 12, 2023 United States leadership in technology and innovation, along with a dynamic workforce, will define the future of aviation U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Aviation Subcommittee Chair Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced -
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Ultrafine particle monitoring (Seattle/Chinatown and Sea-Tac Airport) HDC2 11 12 42
Community Projects are a recent innovation in the State Legislature. Essentially, House members sponsor their own grants which are funded as capital projects. In this case, $340,000 is being allocated for two ultrafine particle monitors to be handed off to Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA). One will be in Chinatown, at the confluence of -
2023-05-02
California is attempting to regulate rail. We should do the same for aviation.
Last week the State of California put forward an audacious proposal to regulate emissions from railroads. And you should read it because to us, this the ball game for airport communities. Their plan is a bit like early marijuana law. As it stands, it cannot take effect without an Executive Order from the Biden Administration. -
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2023-04-17S.1167 – Sound Insulation Treatment Repair and Replacement Program Act
BILLS-118s1167is [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 1167 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1167 To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow additional funds to be provided under the airport improvement program for certain noise mitigation projects, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE