Title 49 — TransportationRelease 119-73not60

§47502 Noise Measurement and Exposure Systems and Identifying Land Use Compatible with Noise Exposure

Title 49 › Subtitle SUBTITLE VII— AVIATION PROGRAMS › Part B— AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AND NOISE › Chapter 475— NOISE › Subchapter I— NOISE ABATEMENT › § 47502

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Transportation must talk with the EPA Administrator and other federal, state, and interstate agencies and then make rules. The rules must set one consistent way to measure airport noise that matches predicted noise to how people react and is used the same at airports and nearby areas, set one system to determine individual noise exposure (loudness, how long, how often, and when), and identify what types of land use are normally compatible with different noise levels.

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Title 49, §47502

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After consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and United States Government, State, and interstate agencies that the Secretary of Transportation considers appropriate, the Secretary shall by regulation—

(1)establish a single system of measuring noise that—

(A)has a highly reliable relationship between projected noise exposure and surveyed reactions of individuals to noise; and

(B)is applied uniformly in measuring noise at airports and the surrounding area;

(2)establish a single system for determining the exposure of individuals to noise resulting from airport operations, including noise intensity, duration, frequency, and time of occurrence; and

(3)identify land uses normally compatible with various exposures of individuals to noise.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4750249 App.:2102.Feb. 18, 1980, Pub. L. 96–193, § 102, 94 Stat. 50. In this section, before clause (1), the words “Not later than the last day of the twelfth month which begins after February 18, 1980” are omitted as obsolete.

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49 U.S.C. § 47502

Title 49 — Transportation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60