Full Text of HB5741 95th General Assembly
HB5741 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB5741
Introduced , by Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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620 ILCS 35/5 |
from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 755 |
620 ILCS 35/10 |
from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 760 |
620 ILCS 35/15 |
from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 765 |
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Amends the Permanent Noise Monitoring Act. Provides that responsibility for ensuring that each airport has an operable permanent noise monitoring system lies with the airport sponsor, defined as any municipality that can own and operate an airport, rather than with the Division of Aeronautics of the Illinois
Department of Transportation. Provides that the airport sponsor shall be responsible for the operation of each system and for the design and construction of any new system. Provides that, beginning in 2009, the airport sponsor (rather than the division) shall be responsible for preparing and making available to the public, twice each year, a permanent noise monitoring report. Provides that, beginning in 2009, the division shall be provided with a copy of each report. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Permanent Noise Monitoring Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Sections 5, 10, and 15 as follows:
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| (620 ILCS 35/5) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 755)
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| Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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| (a) "Airport" means an airport, as defined in Section 6 of | 9 |
| the Illinois
Aeronautics Act, that has more than 500,000 | 10 |
| aircraft operations (take-offs
and landings) per year. | 11 |
| (a-1) "Airport sponsor" means any municipality, as defined | 12 |
| in Section 20 of the Illinois
Aeronautics Act, that can own and | 13 |
| operate an airport.
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| (b) "Permanent noise monitoring system" or "system" means a | 15 |
| system that
includes at least:
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| (1) automated noise monitors capable of recording | 17 |
| noise levels 24
hours per day 365 days per year; and
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| (2) computer equipment sufficient to process the data | 19 |
| from each noise
monitor so that permanent noise monitoring | 20 |
| reports in accordance with
Section 15 of this Act can be | 21 |
| generated.
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| (c) "Division" means the Division of Aeronautics of the | 23 |
| Illinois
Department of Transportation.
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| (d) "Ldn" means day-night average sound level. "Day-night | 2 |
| average sound
level" has the meaning ascribed to it in Section | 3 |
| 150.7 of Part 150
of Title 14 of the Code of Federal | 4 |
| Regulations.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-808.)
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| (620 ILCS 35/10) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 760)
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| Sec. 10. Establishment of permanent noise monitoring | 8 |
| systems. No
later than December 31, 2008 1992 , each airport | 9 |
| shall have an operable permanent
noise monitoring system. The | 10 |
| system shall be designed, constructed, and
operated by the | 11 |
| airport sponsor Division . The airport sponsor shall be | 12 |
| responsible for the construction or the design and construction | 13 |
| of any system not constructed or designed and constructed as of | 14 |
| the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General | 15 |
| Assembly. The cost of the systems and of the permanent
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| monitoring reports under Section 15 of this Act shall be borne
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| by the airport sponsor State of Illinois .
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| (Source: P.A. 87-808.)
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| (620 ILCS 35/15) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 765)
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| Sec. 15. Permanent noise monitoring reports. Beginning in | 21 |
| 1993 and through 2008 , the
Division shall, on June 30th and | 22 |
| December 31st of each
year, prepare a permanent noise | 23 |
| monitoring report and make the
report available to the public. | 24 |
| Beginning in 2009, the
airport sponsor shall, on June 30th and |
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| December 31st of each
year, prepare a permanent noise | 2 |
| monitoring report and make the
report available to the public. | 3 |
| Copies of the report shall be
submitted to: the Office of the | 4 |
| Governor; the Office of the President of
the Senate; the Office | 5 |
| of the Senate Minority Leader; the Office of the
Speaker of the | 6 |
| House; the Office of the House Minority Leader; the United
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| States Environmental Protection Agency, Region V; and the | 8 |
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Environmental Protection Agency. Beginning in 2009, a | 9 |
| copy of the report shall also be submitted to the division. The | 10 |
| permanent noise monitoring report
shall contain all of the | 11 |
| following:
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| (a) Copies of the actual data collected by each permanent | 13 |
| noise monitor
in the system.
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| (b) A summary of the data collected by each permanent noise | 15 |
| monitor in
the system, showing the data organized by:
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| (1) day of the week;
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| (2) time of day;
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| (3) week of the year;
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| (4) type of aircraft; and
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| (5) the single highest noise event recorded at each | 21 |
| monitor.
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| (c) Noise contour maps showing the 65 Ldn, 70 Ldn and 75 | 23 |
| Ldn zones
around the airport.
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| (d) Noise contour maps showing the 65 decibel (dBA), 70 | 25 |
| dBA, and 75
dBA zones around the airport for:
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| (1) 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.;
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| (2) 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.; and
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| (3) types of aircraft.
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| (e) The noise contour maps produced under subsections (c) | 4 |
| and (d)
shall also indicate:
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| (1) residential areas (single and multi-family);
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| (2) schools;
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| (3) hospitals and nursing homes;
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| (4) recreational areas, including but not limited to | 9 |
| parks and
forest preserves;
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| (5) commercial areas;
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| (6) industrial areas;
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| (7) the boundary of the airport;
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| (8) the number of residences (single and multi-family) | 14 |
| within each
contour;
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| (9) the number of residents within each contour;
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| (10) the number of schools within each contour; and
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| (11) the number of school students within each contour.
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| (f) Through 2008, a A certification by the Division that | 19 |
| the system was in proper
working order during the period or, if | 20 |
| it was not, a specific description
of any and all problems with | 21 |
| the System during the period. | 22 |
| (g) Beginning in 2009, a certification by the airport | 23 |
| sponsor that the system was in proper
working order during the | 24 |
| period or, if it was not, a specific description
of any and all | 25 |
| problems with the system during the period.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-808.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 2 |
| becoming law.
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