This Act directs the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator to make arrangements with the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Division must, within 30 days after enactment, convene a committee of experts in health and environmental science to examine the health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution. The committee must issue an expert consensus report that describes current scientific knowledge about those health impacts. When the report is finished, the Division must send it to the FAA Administrator, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Senate Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
The bill asks for an independent expert study and a written report on how air traffic noise and pollution affect health. The study must start quickly (the committee must be convened within 30 days of enactment). The bill itself does not change rules, require new regulations, or create new benefits or fees. It only directs that a report be produced and sent to certain federal officials and congressional committees.
No publicly available information on the bill text shows how much the study will cost, how it will be funded, or which agency will pay for it.
No publicly available information in the bill text describes the sponsors' stated reasons or arguments in favor of the Act.
No publicly available information in the bill text describes objections or arguments against the Act.