FAA ISSUES NOTICE ON ITS CIVIL AVIATION NOISE POLICY; NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
June 23, 2023
On May 1, 2023, FAA issued a Notice requesting comments on four key considerations of its civil aviation noise policy. As background, FAA’s civil aviation noise policy sets forth how FAA analyzes, explains, and publicly presents changes in noise exposure from aviation activity for recreational and commercial fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, commercial space transportation vehicles, unmanned aircraft systems, and emerging technology vehicles. FAA is reviewing four key considerations relevant to the policy including: (1) determining how changes to its policy could better affect its decision-making process regarding how noise may impact things like community annoyance, economic impacts, and certain types of adverse health effects related to aviation noise exposure, (2) FAA’s standard noise metric that describes exposure to aircraft noise, and potential revisions to the choice of standard metric(s), (3) FAA’s definition of the threshold of significant noise exposure determine if the threshold is appropriate or should be revised, and (4) consideration of the level of aircraft noise exposure below which land uses are considered “normally compatible” with airport operations and noise mitigation measures to address adverse noise exposure in areas considered to be “normally compatible” with airport operations. FAA is also looking to find ways to improve how it analyzes, explains, and presents changes in exposure to civil aviation noise.
Interested parties are encouraged to submit comments on the four key considerations of FAA’s noise policy until July 31, 2023, in the relevant docket: FAA–2023–0855.
If you have any questions, please contact Evelyn Sahr (esahr@eckertseamans.com 202-659-6622) or Drew Derco (dderco@eckertseamans.com 202-659-6665).
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