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Air Traffic Noise and Pollution Expert Consensus Act of 2025
This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration to enter into an arrangement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine and report on the various health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution.
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Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] · D–MA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-21 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill would require the Federal Aviation Administration to arrange an expert review of how aircraft noise and pollution affect health. The National Academies’ Health and Medicine Division would bring together health and environmental scientists and produce a report describing current scientific knowledge. Federal agencies and congressional committees would receive the report.
The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall enter into appropriate arrangements with the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
convene a committee of experts in health and environmental science to examine the various health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution
issue a corresponding expert consensus report that sets forth current scientific knowledge relating to the various health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution.
Upon completion of the consensus report, the Division shall transmit the report to— (1) the Administrator; (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services; (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; (4) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives; and (5) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
Section 1 would name the legislation the Air Traffic Noise and Pollution Expert Consensus Act of 2025.
This Act may be cited as the Air Traffic Noise and Pollution Expert Consensus Act of 2025.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Administrator would have to arrange for the National Academies’ Health and Medicine Division to convene the expert committee within 30 days after enactment. That deadline concerns assembling the committee.
The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall enter into appropriate arrangements with the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine under which the Division will— (1) not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, convene a committee of experts in health and environmental science to examine the various health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution
The Division would have to issue an expert consensus report—a report presenting the experts’ shared assessment—describing current scientific knowledge about the health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution.
(2) issue a corresponding expert consensus report that sets forth current scientific knowledge relating to the various health impacts of air traffic noise and pollution.
Once the report is complete, the Division would have to send it to the heads of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, and Environmental Protection Agency, plus the four specified House and Senate committees.
Upon completion of the consensus report, the Division shall transmit the report to— (1) the Administrator; (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services; (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; (4) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives; and (5) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
The supplied actions snapshot, updated October 9, 2026, records introduction in the House and referrals to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and its Aviation Subcommittee on February 21, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2026-10-09T17:33:43Z. 2025-02-21: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation. 2025-02-21: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. 2025-02-21: Introduced in House
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