COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE HARLEY O. STAGGERS, West Virginia, Chairman TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts WILLIAM L. SPRINGER, Illinois JOHN JARMAN, Oklahoma JOHN E. MOSS, California JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida LIONEL VAN DEERLIN, California J. J. PICKLE, Texas FRED B. ROONEY, Pennsylvania DAVID E. SATTERFIELD III, Virginia W. S. (BILL) STUCKEY, JR., Georgia SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Ohio ANCHER NELSEN, Minnesota FLETCHER THOMPSON, Georgia JOHN Y. MCCOLLISTER, Nebraska 92D CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session { REPORT No. 92-842 NOISE CONTROL ACT OF 1972 FEBRUARY 19, 1972.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. STAGGERS, from the Committee on Interstate and REPORT [To accompany H.R. 11021] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 11021) to control the emission of noise detrimental to the human environment, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof a substitute which appears in the reported bill in italic type. (The amendment as it appears in the reported bill, H.R. 11021, follows p. 39 of this report.) Purpose SUMMARY OF LEGISLATION The objective of the Noise Control Act of 1972, "... to promote an environment for all Americans free from noise that jeopardizes their health or welfare ." (sec. 2(b)) is to be achieved in the following manner: Coordination of Federal noise control and research activities (1) by requiring all Federal agencies to promote this objective in carrying out the programs under their control (sec. 4(a)); (2) by requiring the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate the programs of all Federal agencies relating to noise research and noise control (sec. 4(b)(1)); (3) by requiring each Federal agency (except the Federal Aviation Administration to which special provisions apply) to consult with the Administrator when prescribing regulations respecting noise, and by authorizing the Administrator to request any such agency to review noise control regulations when he has reason to believe that such regulations do not protect the public health and welfare to the extent he believes to be required and feasible (sec. 4(b)(2)); (4) by requiring the Administrator to report from time to time on the status and progress of Federal noise research and control activities (sec. 4(b) (3)); Identification of major noise sources and publication of noise control information (5) by requiring the Administrator to develop and publish noise criteria identifying the effects on health and welfare of differing quantities and qualities of noise (sec. 5(a)); (6) by requiring the Administrator to identify, and publish a compilation of products which constitute major noise sources (sec. 5(b)); Noise emission standards for new products (7) by requiring the Administrator to establish noise emission standards for new products in the following four categories, if they have been identified as major noise sources, and if noise emission standards are feasible: I. Construction equipment II. Transportation equipment III. Motors or engines, or equipment of which motors and engines are integral parts IV. Electrical or electronic equipment and by providing detailed time schedules for the establishment of such standards (sec. 6(a)); (8) by authorizing the Administrator to establish noise emission standards for other new products for which such standards are feasible and requisite to protect the public health and welfare (sec. 6(b)); State and local noise control of use of any product (9) by leaving intact State or local authority to control the use, operation or movement of any product (sec. 6(d)); (2) |