Title: Air Traffic Noise and Pollution Expert Consensus Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Air Traffic Noise and Pollution Expert Consensus Act of 2017
This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration to enter into an arrangement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine and report on the various health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3938 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3938

 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
  enter into appropriate arrangements with the National Academies of 
  Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide for a report on the 
   health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 4, 2017

Mr. Lynch (for himself, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Norton, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Polis, 
    Mr. Khanna, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Raskin, Miss Rice of New York, Mr. 
  Panetta, Ms. Speier, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Lowenthal) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
  enter into appropriate arrangements with the National Academies of 
  Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide for a report on the 
   health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Air Traffic Noise and Pollution 
Expert Consensus Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. HEALTH IMPACTS OF AIR TRAFFIC NOISE AND POLLUTION.

    (a) Study.--The Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration shall enter into appropriate arrangements with the 
Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, 
Engineering, and Medicine under which the Division will--
            (1) not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, convene a committee of experts in health and 
        environmental science to examine the various health impacts of 
        air traffic noise and pollution; and
            (2) issue a corresponding expert consensus report that sets 
        forth current scientific knowledge relating to the various 
        health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution.
    (b) Report.--Upon completion, the Division shall transmit the 
report to--
            (1) the Administrator;
            (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
            (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
        Agency;
            (4) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and 
        the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House 
        of Representatives; and
            (5) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
        and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
        of the Senate.
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