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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 3084

PUBLIC LAW 95-609—NOV. 8, 1978

42 USC 6984.

(v) Section 8004(a)(1) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by striking out "discarded material" and inserting "solid waste" in lieu thereof. Aircraft noise SEC. 8. (a) The Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator effects, joint of the Environmental Protection Agency shall jointly study the airstudy, craft noise effects from an airport on communities located in a State 49 USC 1431 other than the State in which the airport is located. The criteria to °°*®be used in selecting the airport to be studied shall include: (1) the airport shall be operated by a State, a unit of general purpose local government of a State, or a special purpose entity ' I constituted for the purpose of operating an airport, and (2) the airport shall have a point on the airport boundary ••"••^ '•' within one nautical mile from a State boundary, and (3) the airport shall have had in excess of sixty thousand . scheduled air carrier departures during the preceding calendar year, (b) The study shall be conducted in cooperation with the airport operator, appropriate Federal, State, and local officials, and the appropriate Metropolitan Planning Organization. Report to (c) The Secretary and the Administrator shall prepare and submit Congress. to Congress a report within nine months of the conclusion of the study, but no later than twenty-four months after enactment of this section. Approved November 8, 1978.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 95-1171 accompanying H.R. 12647 (Comm. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce). SENATE REPORT No. 95-875 (Comm. on Environment and Public Works). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 124 (1978): July 19, considered and passed Senate. Oct. 10, H.R. 12647 considered and passed House, passage vacated, and S. 3083, amended, passed in lieu. Oct. 13, Senate concurred in House amendments.