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NLC Resolution #48: Reduce the Economic, Noise and Health Impacts of Overflights on Cities from Implementation of NextGen’s Airspace Redesign

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NLC Resolution #48 calls on Congress and the FAA to reduce the noise, health, and economic burdens placed on residential communities resulting from the FAA's NextGen air traffic control system, which has concentrated flight paths at low altitudes over neighborhoods. The resolution highlights concerns such as stress-related illness, hearing loss, reduced property values, and inadequate environmental review, and urges the FAA to adopt better noise measurement standards and consider community noise impacts in supersonic jet rulemaking. It also supports increased NASA funding for research into quieter aircraft engines and airframes.

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National League of Cities (NLC) Resolution #48 urging Congress and the FAA to reduce economic, noise, and health impacts of NextGen airspace redesign and overflight concentration over residential areas. Cites FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, EPA Noise Control Act, Clean Air Act Title IV, and FAA NextGen implementation concentrating low-altitude flight paths over U.S. residential communities. Requests FAA ensure community noise concerns are addressed in supersonic jet rulemaking at Stage 5 noise levels at subsonic speeds, utilize alternative single-event noise metrics, accelerate NASA funding for aviation noise R&D targeting aircraft engines and airframes, and ensure full funding of FAA Reauthorization Act provisions.

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