Previous Attempts to Develop, Implement and Enforce a U.S. Noise Policy

摘要

The change from propeller aircraft to jet engines in the 1950's provided much of the impetus for development of national (federal) noise policies regarding noise from aircraft and other environmental noise sources in the U.S. Through the 1970's and early 1980's, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other national organizations participated in the development of a series of federal noise regulations and guidelines. This paper will briefly review the overall noise policy approach implemented in the U.S. during this period of time. It will briefly describe the major noise policy documents produced in the U.S., including both emission regulations and immission guidelines, and will provide an informal assessment of the effectiveness of these documents. A distinction will be made between the usefulness of the concepts developed in the U.S. and how well they were enforced over time. Both the strengths and weaknesses of the historical U.S. noise policy approach will be described in an effort to learn from past experiences in developing concepts for a new national unified noise control policy.