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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5107 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a program at San 

Francisco International Airport for purposes of soundproofing residential 

buildings in surrounding communities. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 14, 2019 

Ms. SPEIER (for herself, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. PANETTA, and Mr. RASKIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a program at San Francisco International Airport for purposes of soundproofing residential buildings in surrounding communities. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Serious Noise Reduc5 tion Efforts Act of 2019’’ or the ‘‘SNORE Act of 2019’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROGRAM FOR NOISE MITIGATION NEAR SAN FRAN2 CISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. 

3 (a) RESIDENTIAL NOISE MITIGATION NEAR SAN

4 FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.—Section 47504 of 

5 title 49, United States Code, is amended— 

6 (1) in subsection (a)(2)— 

7 (A) in subparagraph (D) by striking ‘‘and’’ 

8 at the end; 

9 (B) in subparagraph (E) by striking the 

10 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

11 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

12 ‘‘(F) installing residential noise dampening 

13 windows, residential noise insulation, and other 

14 residential improvements to reduce or to miti15 gate the noise impacts of the operation of San 

16 Francisco International Airport.’’; 

17 (2) in subsection (c)(2)— 

18 (A) in subparagraph (E) by striking ‘‘and’’ 

19 at the end; 

20 (B) in subparagraph (F) by striking the 

21 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

22 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

23 ‘‘(G) for a program of residential noise mitiga24 tion and soundproofing for residential buildings near 

25 San Francisco International Airport.’’; and 

26 (3) by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(f) RESIDENTIAL NOISE MITIGATION NEAR SAN

2 FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.— 

3 ‘‘(1) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—Notwith4 standing any other provision of law, the Secretary 

5 shall approve, and may incur obligations for, a pro6 gram submitted under subsection (a) that requires 

7 the expenditure of funds made available under sec8 tion 48103 for mitigation of aircraft noise less than 

9 65 DNL if— 

10 ‘‘(A) such program is submitted and oper11 ated by San Francisco International Airport; 

12 and 

13 ‘‘(B) in any 2 consecutive or nonconsecu14 tive months in a fiscal year, a total of 10 or 

15 more measurements of 75 dBA or greater (on 

16 a noise monitor operated or approved by San 

17 Francisco International Airport) are taken 

18 within a single city or county between the hours 

19 of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. due to San Francisco 

20 International Airport operations, including air21 craft arriving or departing the airport. 

22 ‘‘(2) PROGRAM CONTENTS.—The program de23 scribed in paragraph (1) shall propose to soundproof 

24 at least 200 residential buildings per fiscal year. 

25 Residential buildings proposed for aircraft noise 


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1 mitigation shall be within any noise-affected location 

2 and the noise mitigation may be performed on a res3 idence whether or not it is within the 65 DNL con4 tour. 

5 ‘‘(3) FUNDING.— 

6 ‘‘(A) ELIGIBLE FUNDS.—The San Fran7 cisco International Airport may use Federal 

8 funds, revenue from passenger facility charges 

9 authorized under section 40117, and other rev10 enue generated by the airport to carry out ac11 tivities under the program without regard to 

12 any restrictions on the use of such funds under 

13 sections 40177 and 47133. 

14 ‘‘(B) REMITTANCE OF FUNDS.—As a con15 dition of approval of any Federal grants award16 ed to San Francisco International Airport after 

17 fiscal year 2021, the Airport shall agree that in 

18 any fiscal year in which a program is submitted 

19 by San Francisco International Airport under 

20 paragraph (1) that does not propose noise miti21 gation of 200 or more homes, the Airport shall 

22 remit to each noise-affected location an amount 

23 equal to 10 times the amount of funding pro24 vided to the noise-affected location under the 

25 Community Development Block Grant Program 


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1 under title I of the Housing and Community 

2 Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et 

3 seq.) for the previous fiscal year. 

4 ‘‘(C) USE OF REMITTED FUNDS.—An air5 port disbursing funds to a city or county under 

6 this program shall obtain written assurance 

7 from the city or county that the funds shall be 

8 expended for purposes of noise mitigation and 

9 that the funds shall be spent not later than 2 

10 fiscal years after the disbursement of funds to 

11 the city or county. 

12 ‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

13 ‘‘(A) NOISE-AFFECTED LOCATION.—The 

14 term ‘noise-affected location’ means any city or 

15 county in which ten or more measurements de16 scribed in paragraph (1)(B) were taken during 

17 the previous fiscal year. 

18 ‘‘(B) NOISE MITIGATION.—The term ‘noise 

19 mitigation’ means soundproofing and noise 

20 dampening, including the installation of noise 

21 dampening windows, residential noise insula22 tion, and other residential improvements that 

23 reduce the impact of noise. 


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1 ‘‘(C) RESIDENTIAL BUILDING.—The term 

2 ‘residential building’ means a single family 

3 housing unit or a multifamily housing unit.’’. 

4 (b) REVENUE DIVERSION EXCEPTION.—Section 

5 47107 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 

6 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through 

7 (5) as paragraphs (4) through (6), respectively; and 

8 (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol9 lowing: 

10 ‘‘(3) REVENUE DIVERSION EXCEPTION.—The 

11 use of revenue generated by San Francisco Inter12 national Airport shall not be considered a diversion 

13 as set forth in this or any other section if such rev14 enue is used for purposes of conducting a program 

15 of residential noise mitigation as described in section 

16 47504(f).’’. 

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