What's happening
This bill requires New York airports to use a standardized metric, the Community Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL), for airport noise studies and reporting.
Why it matters
Requires all New York airports to adopt a single, standardized noise metric (CNEL) for noise mapping and compatibility planning,. ensuring data consistency across the state and enabling better public understanding and comparison of airport noise impacts.
Acknowledges and addresses the heightened health risks of airport noise,. including stress-related conditions, sleep disruption, and cognitive impairment, by mandating use of a metric that specifically penalizes noise during sensitive evening and nighttime hours.
Aligns state requirements with both federal standards and international health recommendations,. potentially making it easier for communities to advocate for mitigation and for policymakers to justify stricter noise controls based on recognized public health guidelines.
Specifies the technical formula for calculating CNEL,. which could improve transparency and accountability in how noise contours and exposure maps are created, reducing the chance for airports to use less protective or inconsistent methodologies.
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Who cares
New York airport operators
The bill would require all airport noise-study contour maps, including noise exposure maps and noise compatibility programs, to use the community noise equivalent level metric.
Residents near airports
The required metric would give greater weight to evening and nighttime noise to reflect lower tolerance during those hours.
Airport noise-study consultants
The bill would prescribe the formula and daytime, evening and nighttime periods used to calculate noise levels for contour maps.
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Standardize Airport Noise Measurement
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Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 40
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Standardize Airport Noise Studies
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Anna Kaplan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3063
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to airport noise studies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Article 13 of the public health law is amended by adding a new title 14 to read as follows:
TITLE XIV
AIRPORT NOISE STUDIES Section 1389-hh. Legislative findings and purposes.
1389-ii. Definitions.
1389-jj. Airport noise studies.
§ 1389-hh. Legislative findings and purposes. 1. The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that noise pollution causes a variety of adverse human health impacts, many of which are related to noise induced stress including hearing loss, hypertension, tachycardia, increased cortisol release, sleep disruption, and cognitive impairment.
2. The legislature further finds and recognizes that the federal environmental protection agency and the World Health Organization have recommended a fifty-five day-night average sound level (DNL) noise exposure level to protect the public from adverse human health impacts.
3. The legislature further finds and recognizes that the federal aviation administration accepts as a metric for determining noise impacts the community noise equivalent level (CNEL).
4. The legislature further finds that the community noise equivalent level (CNEL) includes a penalty for increased sensitivity to noise occurring during evening hours which are set aside for family and student study time.
5. For these purposes, there shall be established a uniform metric for measuring noise impacts that will be used by airports in New York state
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03974-01-9
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for the purpose of noise exposure maps (NEMs) and noise compatibility programs (NCPs).
§ 1389-ii. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following definitions shall apply:
1. "Community noise equivalent level" (CNEL) means, in decibels, the average daytime noise level during a twenty-four hour period, adjusted to account for the lower tolerance of noise during evening and nighttime periods in relation to daytime periods.
2. "Hourly noise level daytime" (HNLD) means, in decibels, the hourly noise levels for the hours of 0700-1900.
3. "Hourly noise level evening" (HNLE) means, in decibels, the hourly noise levels for the hours of 1900-2200.
4. "Hourly noise level nighttime" (HNLN) means, in decibels, the hourly noise levels for the hours of 2200-0700.
§ 1389-jj. Airport noise studies. 1. For the purpose of airport noise studies, all contour maps shall be completed using the community noise equivalent level. This shall include, but shall not be limited to, federal aviation regulation part one hundred fifty studies, airport noise exposure maps (NEMs), and airport noise compatibility programs (NCPs).
2. The community noise equivalent level (CNEL) shall be calculated by the following: CNEL = 10 log (1/24) ({sigma} antilog (HNLD/10) + 3 {sigma} antilog (HNLE/10) + 10 {sigma} antilog (HNLN/10)).
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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