A position in MDOT’s Bureau of Bridges and Structures has primary responsibility for public complaints. MDOT will record and respond to complaints about traffic noise; however, there is not a specific program to address individual public complaints about traffic noise, nor is there a State or Federal program that provides funding in response to public complaints. No noise abatement activities will result. The EPA Office of Noise Abatement and Control once existed to address the issue, but the program's funding was eliminated in 1981.
The Type II program can address those residential areas established before the highway and meet the requirements set in the MDOT noise policy. (Note: MDOT's Type II program was suspended December 2007 and remains suspended.)