Title 49 — TransportationRelease 119-73

§47505 Airport noise compatibility planning grants

Title 49 › Subtitle SUBTITLE VII— - AVIATION PROGRAMS › Part PART B— - AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AND NOISE › Chapter CHAPTER 475— - NOISE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - NOISE ABATEMENT › § 47505

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Transportation can give a grant to an airport sponsor to create the information needed to make and submit a noise exposure map (including paying to get the data) or to prepare a noise compatibility program. Grants can be paid from amounts under section 48103, and the U.S. government’s share of each grant is the same percentage the airport would be eligible for under sections 47109(a) and 47109(b).

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Title 49, §47505

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(a)The Secretary of Transportation may make a grant to a sponsor of an airport to develop, for planning purposes, information necessary to prepare and submit—

(1)a noise exposure map and related information under section 47503 of this title, including the cost of obtaining the information; or

(2)a noise compatibility program under section 47504 of this title.

(b)A grant under subsection (a) of this section may be made from amounts available under section 48103 of this title. The United States Government’s share of the grant is the percent for which a project for airport development at an airport would be eligible under section 47109(a) and (b) of this title.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4750549 App.:2103(b).Feb. 18, 1980, Pub. L. 96–193, § 103(b), 94 Stat. 51; restated Sept. 3, 1982, Pub. L. 97–248, § 524(b)(3), 96 Stat. 696. In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words “incur obligations to” are omitted as surplus.

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49 U.S.C. § 47505

Title 49 — Transportation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73