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December 30, 2020

Letter and Proposal to President-Elect Biden to “Restore $35M in Funding to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Noise Abatement and Control” (ONAC) – December 2020

Grassroots groups nationwide encouraged President-Elect Biden to include funding to restore the EPA’s’s Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) in his Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Proposal and presented his transition team with a proposal that describes the role the ONAC would take in regulating aviation noise. Letters also were sent to Secretary John Kerry, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Ed Markey, and Congressman Stephen Lynch asking that they give the proposal to President-Elect Biden’s transition team.
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June 2, 2020

Responses to the FAA’s April 2020 Noise Metrics Report Regarding DNL and 65 DNL Standard – June-September 2020

The FAA’s April 2020 Report to Congress on alternative noise metrics and the 65 DNL standard for airplane noise fails to fulfill the requirements of sections 173 and 188 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. Responses to the metrics report: Executive Summary, Technical Response, Questions to FAA Pertaining to the Metrics Report, a letter from the Quiet Skies Caucus (QSC) to FAA stating “The FAA’s report is unacceptable,” and a press release and letter from the QSC asking the FAA for formal responses to questions.
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