Aviation Noise Action Alert: Send Comments

How Has Aviation Noise Impacted You, Your Family, and Your Community? Offer Suggestions on Aviation Noise Mitigation Strategies.

August 17, 2023

The following message is from Quiet Communities (QC), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping communities reduce health and environmental harm from noise and pollution. The deadline for submitting comments on the Federal Register "Request for Comments on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Review of the Civil Aviation Noise Policy" is September 29, 2023. You can submit multiple comments but may want to preface later submissions by stating that they are in addition to your earlier comments.

To access the Federal Register Notice and view the more than 3,000 comments submitted by others click here.


TELL THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA) ABOUT YOUR LIVED EXPERIENCE WITH AVIATION NOISE

With the FAA under pressure to update its noise policies, it is extremely important for the FAA to hear your personal "lived experience" with aviation noise. The FAA has clearly stated that it will use the information it receives through public comments to inform its updated noise policy and metrics for determining "significant impact" and appropriate land use going forward.

Here are some components to consider including:

Provide detailed, information-rich comments. The FAA states that "a constructive, information-rich comment that clearly communicates and supports its claims is more likely to have an impact on regulatory decision making."

Characterize the problem

    • Types and number of flights (general aviation, commercial jets, helicopters, private jets, etc.)
    • Proximity to airport
    • Times of day of flights (day, night)
    • Frequency of flights (how many per day & how many per hour, esp. during the busiest times)
    • Altitude of flights (provide a range if known)
    • Experience of noise inside the home as well as outdoors
    • Concerns about emerging aircraft (e.g., drones, air taxis)

Describe the Impacts on you, your family, your neighborhood - PROVIDE SPECIFIC DETAILS

    • Sleep interruption and/or disruption
    • Physical and mental health and well-being
    • Emotional impacts
    • Work, learning, concentrating
    • Effects on children – their ability to learn, concentrate, play
    • Optional: Is the average annual sound level of 65 decibels (DNL 65) sufficient to protect you from the impacts you experience?

If you have tried to complain or get help:

    • What has been the response?
    • Was the response helpful?
    • How did it make you feel?

What would you like to see done to mitigate the problem?

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Conclude by stating that you hope and expect the FAA will adopt a new noise policy and new metrics that protect overflown communities and near-airport communities from harm based on the lived experience of people like you!

The DEADLINE to send your comment is September 29, 2023 at 11:59 PM ET.

To submit online, or by mail or fax:

    • Submit online: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FAA-2023-0855-0001
    • Mail to: Docket Operations, M–30; U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Room W12–140, West Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590–0001.
    • Fax to: Docket Operations at 202–493–2251
    • Make sure your submission includes Docket Number FAA–2023–0855

Thank you – Quiet American Skies, a program of Quiet Communities

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