Bill Text: IL HJR0110 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges more money to be allocated from the Federal Aviation Administration Passenger Facility Charge for the purpose of community airport noise mitigation and community airport air quality monitoring and toxic emissions reduction.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HJR0110 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HJR0110-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The Federal Aviation Administration currently | ||||||
3 | charges and collects moneys from the Passenger Facility Charge; | ||||||
4 | and
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5 | WHEREAS, The moneys raised from this source is used for a | ||||||
6 | variety of essential public causes, including safety | ||||||
7 | enhancements, security enhancements, capacity enhancements, | ||||||
8 | and noise reduction; however, current inadequate public | ||||||
9 | support for environmental mitigation of the costs imposed on | ||||||
10 | neighboring residents and property owners from the operations | ||||||
11 | of aircraft demands redress; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Passenger Facility charge noise reduction is part | ||||||
13 | of an overall program of essential steps toward environmental | ||||||
14 | mitigation that includes, but is not limited to, the monitoring | ||||||
15 | of and reduction of noise pollution from aircraft operations, | ||||||
16 | particularly during nighttime hours, and the monitoring of and | ||||||
17 | reduction of toxic air emissions from aircraft onto communities | ||||||
18 | that live underneath airport airspace; therefore, be it
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19 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
20 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE | ||||||
21 | CONCURRING HEREIN, that it is the sense of the Illinois House | ||||||
22 | and Senate that more money from the Federal Aviation |
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1 | Administration Passenger Facility Charge should be allocated | ||||||
2 | to community airport noise mitigation and community airport air | ||||||
3 | quality monitoring and toxic emissions reduction; and be it | ||||||
4 | further
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5 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
6 | presented to Elaine Chao, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, | ||||||
7 | to the Speaker and Minority Leader of the United States House | ||||||
8 | of Representatives, to the Majority and Minority Leaders of the | ||||||
9 | United States Senate, and to the Illinois delegation in | ||||||
10 | Congress.
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