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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7550 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7550

To require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a mechanism to 
make helicopter noise complaint data accessible to the Federal Aviation 
                            Administration.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2024

  Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Beyer, Mr. 
    Trone, and Mr. Raskin) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL

 
To require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a mechanism to 
make helicopter noise complaint data accessible to the Federal Aviation 
                            Administration.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Washington, DC, Area Helicopter 
Noise Information Exchange Act''.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION SHARING REQUIREMENT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, acting through 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, shall 
establish a mechanism to make helicopter noise complaint data 
accessible to the Federal Aviation Administration, to helicopter 
operators operating in the Washington, DC, area, and to the public on a 
website of the Administration, based on the recommendation of the 
Government Accountability Office in the report published on January 7, 
2021, titled ``Aircraft Noise: Better Information Sharing Could Improve 
Responses to Washington, DC, Area Helicopter Noise Concerns''.
    (b) Cooperation.--Any helicopter operator operating in the 
Washington, DC, area shall provide helicopter noise complaint data to 
the Federal Aviation Administration through the mechanism established 
under subsection (a).
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Helicopter noise complaint data.--The term ``helicopter 
        noise complaint data''--
                    (A) means general data relating to a complaint made 
                by an individual about helicopter noise in the 
                Washington, DC, area and may include--
                            (i) the location and description of the 
                        event that is the subject of the complaint;
                            (ii) the start and end time of such event;
                            (iii) a description of the aircraft that is 
                        the subject of the complaint; and
                            (iv) the airport name associated with such 
                        event; and
                    (B) does not include the personally identifiable 
                information of the individual who submitted the 
                complaint.
            (2) Washington, dc, area.--The term ``Washington, DC, 
        area'' means the area inside of a 30-mile radius surrounding 
        Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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