On July 30, Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) reintroduced legislation that would reestablish the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC) and require it to study aircraft noise. The congresswoman introduced similar legislation in 2015, 2017, and 2019. None of those bills – nor other bills seeking to refund ONAC since it was defunded in 1983 in the Reagan administration – ever moved beyond the committees to which they were referred. Meng’s latest attempt to revive ONAC, the Quiet Communities Act of 2021 (H.R. 4892), would authorize ONAC to be funded at a level of $21 million for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
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