Full Text of HJR0020 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The neighbors of O'Hare International Airport | 3 | | understand the importance of this airport to Illinois' economy | 4 | | and its supply of good jobs; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, The neighbors of O'Hare want to take an active and | 6 | | friendly role in helping the airport deal actively with its | 7 | | many noise problems; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Among the sponsors of this resolution are | 9 | | individuals who have talked with representatives of the City of | 10 | | Chicago and who appreciate the work that the Chicago Department | 11 | | of Aviation is doing to improve the technology that it is | 12 | | investing on gathering noise pollution data and improving data | 13 | | communications and database technology to consolidate and | 14 | | store this data; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, This is not the first time that Chicago has | 16 | | reached out to its "noise neighbors"; as part of its long-term | 17 | | expansion plans, Chicago and many of O'Hare International | 18 | | Airport's principal airlines have maintained multi-year | 19 | | voluntary noise abatement flight procedures, instituted in | 20 | | 1997 and continuously revised since then as the "O'Hare | 21 | | International Airport Fly Quiet Program"; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Compliance with the Fly Quiet Program is overseen | 2 | | by the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission, an | 3 | | intergovernmental agency that includes Cook County, 41 | 4 | | municipalities, and 16 school districts adjacent to and around | 5 | | O'Hare International Airport; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, The voluntary flight procedures included in the | 7 | | Fly Quiet Program include approved, voluntary, recommended | 8 | | aircraft pathways for safe commercial jet takeoffs from O'Hare | 9 | | International Airport, effective from 10 P.M. to 7 A.M.; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, The O'Hare Fly Quiet Program releases quarterly | 11 | | reports to measure compliance with the elements of the Program, | 12 | | including compliance by airlines and their pilots with approved | 13 | | runway departure flight paths; these reports show that, as of | 14 | | 2015, many aircraft departures currently deviate significantly | 15 | | from the approved "Fly Quiet" flight paths, thereby imposing | 16 | | noise pollution upon substantial areas of residences, schools, | 17 | | commercial and industrial structures, as well as property | 18 | | owners, whose properties are not sufficiently monitored for | 19 | | noise pollution and are not sufficiently mapped as impacted by | 20 | | aircraft noise; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, The Fly Quiet report published by the Chicago | 22 | | Department of Aviation and covering the fourth quarter of | 23 | | calendar year 2014 showed massive partial compliance and |
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| 1 | | noncompliance with Fly Quiet runway departure guidelines, with | 2 | | one runway departure point (22L) showing only 40% of aircraft | 3 | | departure flight paths being implemented so as to keep the | 4 | | aircraft within 0.5 nautical miles of the approved takeoff | 5 | | pathway, so that 60% of the planes during this time period, | 6 | | taking off from this runway location, applied engine power and | 7 | | climbed into the sky while the plane was located at least 0.5 | 8 | | nautical miles or more away from the approved pathway; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Above and beyond runway departure point 22L, other | 10 | | O'Hare International Airport runway departure points also | 11 | | showed significant patterns of partial compliance and | 12 | | non-compliance with Fly Quiet takeoff flight path guidelines in | 13 | | the fourth quarter of 2014; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Overall monitoring by the O'Hare Noise | 15 | | Compatibility Commission and others indicated that, in 2015, | 16 | | Fly Quiet voluntary guidelines were being adhered to in only | 17 | | 30% of total flights during nighttime hours; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, These examples of partial compliance and | 19 | | noncompliance impose substantial financial and quality-of-life | 20 | | burdens upon the neighbors of O'Hare International Airport, | 21 | | including individuals and businesses that understand the | 22 | | importance of the airport and want to be good neighbors; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The airlines that operate at Chicago O'Hare | 2 | | International Airport also have many other interrelationships | 3 | | with the City of Chicago, the Federal Aviation Administration | 4 | | within the United States Department of Transportation, and many | 5 | | other entities; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, These airlines include the use of a specified | 7 | | number of departure gates and related support facilities; | 8 | | access to these departure gates and these support facilities | 9 | | are essential assets for doing passenger and cargo business at | 10 | | O'Hare International Airport; access to support facilities is | 11 | | an essential asset for doing non-passenger cargo business at | 12 | | the same airport; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Whenever an airline changes hands, and under a | 14 | | wide variety of other circumstances, access to major airport | 15 | | departure gates and support facilities is closely looked at by | 16 | | the owner of the airport, the United States Department of | 17 | | Transportation, and many other stakeholders in the United | 18 | | States airline industry; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, The O'Hare International Airport Fly Quiet | 20 | | Program should be elevated to the rank of an independent, | 21 | | autonomous stakeholder in any future decisions made by O'Hare | 22 | | International Airport and its partners that will affect future | 23 | | allocations of airport departure gates and support facilities; |
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| 1 | | therefore, be it
| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 3 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE | 4 | | CONCURRING HEREIN, that we state the belief that O'Hare | 5 | | International Airport's noise monitoring technology should be | 6 | | coupled with artificial-intelligence software, including, but | 7 | | not limited to, software that gauges Community Noise Equivalent | 8 | | Level noise levels, to the maximum extent allowed by current | 9 | | technology in order to match the noises perceived by each | 10 | | station at each time to specific individual flight operations | 11 | | and the operations of individual airline firms and to gauge the | 12 | | compliance of each individual airline firm with the noise, | 13 | | time-of-day, and flight path guidelines set down in the Fly | 14 | | Quiet Program; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That we call for a measurable improvement in Fly | 16 | | Quiet compliance no later than January 1, 2017, with further | 17 | | improvements to follow; and be it further | 18 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the Aviation Department of the City | 19 | | of Chicago to select a trusted third party that represents the | 20 | | interests of O'Hare International Airport's noise neighbors | 21 | | and to share the information enumerated in this resolution with | 22 | | this third party; such information-sharing should be carried | 23 | | out in a manner that does not violate the intellectual |
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| 1 | | properties and executive status of secure information | 2 | | controlled by any significant stakeholders at the airport; and | 3 | | be it further | 4 | | RESOLVED, That, as a part of this information sharing, we | 5 | | urge the Aviation Department and the trusted third party to | 6 | | collaborate to develop a rank-ordered chart of each airline | 7 | | firm's compliance with the guidelines contained in the O'Hare | 8 | | International Airport Fly Quiet Program; the chart should be | 9 | | public information and should be revised and republished not | 10 | | less than every 3 months on the same basis as the reports | 11 | | currently submitted by the Fly Quiet Program to the public; and | 12 | | be it further | 13 | | RESOLVED, That these charts and the data from which these | 14 | | charts are generated should be given explicit and formal | 15 | | consideration as elements in any decisions made, subsequent to | 16 | | the start of the generation of this data and these charts, on | 17 | | the reallocation of departure gates and support facilities at | 18 | | O'Hare International Airport; and be it further | 19 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Secretary of the | 21 | | United States Department of Transportation Anthony Foxx, and | 22 | | the members of the Illinois congressional delegation.
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