AICA, GrotonAyer Buzz, and Keep It Down Up There’s Federal Register Comment on FAA Noise Portal – December 2021
Date: December 29, 2021
Description: Three community groups submitted a public comment in the Federal Register regarding the FAA’s Noise Portal. The overarching message of the comment letter is that the FAA’s proposed collection of information fails the OMB’s collection requirements.
On December 29, 2021 the Aviation-Impacted Communities Alliance (AICA), GrotonAyer Buzz, and Keep It Down Up There commented on the Federal Register Requests for Comments about:
Clearance of a Renewed Approval of Information Collection: FAA Aircraft Noise Complaint and Inquiry System (Noise Portal) – Docket Number FAA-2021-25944; OMB Control Number: 2120-0773; retrieved from govinfo.gov.
The overarching message of the comment letter is that the FAA’s proposed collection of information fails the OMB’s collection requirements. The comment letter provides details on 10 issues about the FAA’s inconsistent, confusing, inaccurate, insufficient, and overlapping processes for communicating noise concerns and the excessive burden to members of the public who use the Noise Portal collection system.
In addition, the letter asks the FAA to include, not summarize, the letter’s comments when it makes its Office of Management and Budget (OMB) request for renewal of the FAA Noise Portal data collection.
- FAA
- FAA Administrator Dickson January 24, 2020 letter to the Chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus (see pages 20-21 Sections 29, 30)
- FAA Noise Portal
- FAA’s Policy on Addressing Aircraft Noise Complaints and Inquiries from the Public (last updated 12/04/2019); retrieved from faa.gov
- FAA’s Combine Noise Reduction Efforts with Community Involvement
- FAA’s Aviation Noise Ombudsman
- FAA’s Noise Complaint Initiative (NCI) Overview presentation, Aviation Noise & Emissions Symposium (March 2, 2020); retrieved from ucdavis.edu
- FAA Noise Portal Overview Discussion with: LAX Community Noise Roundtable (September 15, 2021); retrieved from lawa.org
- Federal Register FAA Aircraft Noise Complaint and Inquiry System (Noise Portal)
- FAA (DOT) Notice and Request for Comments November 29, 2021; retrieved from govinfo.gov
- FAA (DOT) Notice and Request for Comments February 8, 2021; retrieved from govinfo.gov
- FAA (DOT) Notice and Request for Comments April 27, 2018; retrieved from govinfo.gov
- FAA’s Supporting Statement; retrieved from reginfo.gov
- Airlines for American (A4A) Comments to OIRA-OMB-FAA (Numbered Paragraph) Noise Portal-5-29-18; retrieved from reginfo.gov
- FAA response to comments received on “Clearance of New Approval of Information Collection: FAA Aircraft Noise Complaint and Inquiry System (FAA Noise Portal),” 83 Fed. Reg. 18,620-21 (April 27, 2018); retrieved from reginfo.gov
- FAA (DOT) Notice and Request for Comments November 2, 2017; retrieved from govinfo.gov