AN ACT Relating to port districts; authorizing port districts operating an airport to undertake programs to control and abate aircraft noise; and adding a new chapter to Title 53 RCW. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: NEW SECTION. Section 1. A port district operating an airport serving more than twenty scheduled jet aircraft flights per day may undertake any of the programs or combinations of such programs, as authorized by this chapter, for the purpose of alleviating and abating the impact of jet aircraft noise on areas surrounding such airport. NEW SECTION. 'Sec. 2. Prior to initiating programs as authorized in this chapter the port commission shall undertake the investigation and monitoring of aircraft noise impact to determine the nature and extent of the impact. The port commission shall adopt a program of noise impact abatement based upon the investigations and as amended periodically to conform to needs demonstrated by the monitoring programs: PROVIDED, That in no case may the port district undertake any of the programs of this chapter in an area which is more than three miles beyond the paved and of any runway or more than fifteen hundred feet from the centerline of any runway or from an imaginary runway centerline extending three miles from the paved end of such runway: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the area within 2500 feet of the center of the end point of any runway may be included. Such areas as determined above, shall be known as "impacted…Open full document
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State of Washington legislation in support of the original FAA laws on noise mitigation. This gives Port Districts authority to
1. Purchase lands/homes which are deemed to be too noisy to mitigate.
2. Provide a sound insulation program for affected homes.