Bill Text: IL HR0960 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Commends the generation of new CNEL data as a way for the communities around O'Hare International Airport to better understand the impact of airport noise on their communities and quality of life. Commends the City of Chicago for supporting P.A. 99-202 and calls upon it to continue to take steps to implement the law and generate the data mandated by this Public Act. Calls upon the Federal Aviation Administration to assist the City of Chicago in the implementation of P.A. 99-202, including the siting, re-siting, and re-equipping of noise monitoring stations, and the generation and publication of data generated by these stations in conformity with CNEL professional standards. Re-affirms the noise contour maps that cover areas surrounding O'Hare Airport, and describes that the impacts of noise upon these communities, should be based upon the best and newest possible data and technology. Calls upon the FAA to use new CNEL data to revisit the existing noise contour maps that cover areas surrounding O'Hare Airport, and to promptly redraw these maps as new airport noise data is submitted.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2016-06-30 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. John C. D'Amico [HR0960 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0960-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The O'Hare Modernization Program, approved in | ||||||
3 | 2003, has generated serious noise issues
that affect the | ||||||
4 | quality of life and health of a significant number of household | ||||||
5 | residents living
adjacent to the airport, especially persons | ||||||
6 | who live directly east and west of the new parallel
runways | ||||||
7 | that now carry most of O'Hare's jet airplane traffic; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the | ||||||
9 | federal agency that regulates all aspects of
United States | ||||||
10 | commercial flight, granted permission to the City of Chicago | ||||||
11 | and O'Hare airport to carry
out its current expansion, and its | ||||||
12 | permission was based on: (a) noise projections generated
prior | ||||||
13 | to approval of the modernization plan, and (b) ongoing | ||||||
14 | monitoring of 0'Hare airport
noise through the use of | ||||||
15 | noise-monitoring technology that was adequate for that purpose
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16 | based upon 1990s standards; and
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17 | WHEREAS, During the years since the Illinois General | ||||||
18 | Assembly approved the 0'Hare Modernization
Program in 2003, the | ||||||
19 | City of Chicago has carried out noise monitoring in cooperation | ||||||
20 | with
the FAA based upon the technological standards and | ||||||
21 | practices that were in place at the start
of the modernization | ||||||
22 | program; and
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1 | WHEREAS, The "noise contour maps" generated by City of | ||||||
2 | Chicago/FAA data are public documents that
are used to measure | ||||||
3 | the impact of O'Hare noise on its neighbors and, in some cases, | ||||||
4 | to
allocate soundproofing aid to owners of residential, | ||||||
5 | educational, commercial, and industrial
properties, if they | ||||||
6 | are located within the "contours" of noise impact measured by | ||||||
7 | O'Hare
Modernization Program noise impact collection data; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Many of the constituents of the co-sponsors of | ||||||
9 | this resolution do not live within these
Modernization Program | ||||||
10 | noise contours, but tell us that they are severely and | ||||||
11 | negatively
affected by O'Hare Airport noise; and
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12 | WHEREAS, New technologies, distributed and made available | ||||||
13 | since 2003, have created a new standard,
the "Community Noise | ||||||
14 | Equivalent Level" or CNEL for short, which has significantly
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15 | changed and improved the way that technology can measure the | ||||||
16 | impact of airplane noise on human quality of life; and
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17 | WHEREAS, In response to Illinois constituent concerns, the | ||||||
18 | General Assembly, in the spring of 2015, enacted
P.A. 99-202, | ||||||
19 | amending the Permanent Noise Monitoring Act to mandate the use, | ||||||
20 | going
forward, of Community Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL) | ||||||
21 | technologies and noise
measurement data in the monitoring of | ||||||
22 | noise in and around O'Hare Airport; therefore, be it
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1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
2 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
3 | commend the generation of new CNEL data as a way for the | ||||||
4 | communities
around O'Hare International Airport to better | ||||||
5 | understand the impact of airport noise on
their communities and | ||||||
6 | quality of life; and be it further
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7 | RESOLVED, That we commend the City of Chicago for | ||||||
8 | supporting P.A. 99-202 and
call upon it to continue to take | ||||||
9 | steps to implement the law and generate the data
mandated by | ||||||
10 | this Public Act; and be it further
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11 | RESOLVED, That we call upon the Federal Aviation | ||||||
12 | Administration to assist the City of Chicago in
the | ||||||
13 | implementation of P.A. 99-202, including the siting, | ||||||
14 | re-siting, and re-equipping of
noise monitoring stations, and | ||||||
15 | the generation and publication of data generated by these
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16 | stations in conformity with CNEL professional standards; and be | ||||||
17 | it further
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18 | RESOLVED, That we re-affirm that the noise contour maps | ||||||
19 | that cover areas surrounding O'Hare
Airport, and describe the | ||||||
20 | impacts of noise upon these communities, should be based
upon | ||||||
21 | the best and newest possible data and technology; and be it | ||||||
22 | further
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1 | RESOLVED, That we call upon the FAA to use new CNEL data to | ||||||
2 | revisit the existing noise
contour maps that cover areas | ||||||
3 | surrounding O'Hare Airport, and to promptly redraw
these maps | ||||||
4 | as new airport noise data is submitted; and be it further
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5 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
6 | submitted to the Director of the Federal
Aviation | ||||||
7 | Administration and to the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
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