Noise Oversight and Information for Safe Environments Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6927 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6927

  To amend the Noise Control Act of 1972 to establish a deadline for 
               revising or supplementing noise criteria.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 23, 2025

 Mr. Menendez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Noise Control Act of 1972 to establish a deadline for 
               revising or supplementing noise criteria.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Noise Oversight and Information for 
Safe Environments Act''.

SEC. 2. REVISION OR SUPPLEMENTATION OF CRITERIA RELATED TO NOISE.

    Section 5 of the Noise Control Act of 1972 (42 U.S.C. 4904) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``criteria or'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Review, Revision, and Supplementation of Criteria.--Not later 
than the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of the Noise 
Oversight and Information for Safe Environments Act, and not less 
frequently than once every 10 years thereafter, the Administrator shall 
review the criteria published or revised under this section to 
determine whether it is necessary to revise or supplement such 
criteria. If the Administrator determines it is necessary to revise or 
supplement such criteria, the Administrator shall make such revision or 
supplementation in accordance with subsection (d).''.
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