DOJ REMINDS APPEALS COURT ITMUST DEFER TO FAATECHNICAL DETERMINATIONS IN ROD

摘要

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit must defer to FAA’s technical determinations in its Record of Decision (ROD) approving the Southern California Metroplex Project, including FAA’s use of the controversial DNL noise metric to assess significant noise impact, the U.S. Department of Justice asserted in a May 15 brief to the Court. The brief was filed to refute legal challenges to FAA’s Sept. 2, 2016, ROD and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) approving extensive airspace changes made under the FAA’s SoCal Metroplex Project.