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                                  7701

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 4, 2010
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Introduced  by  Sen.  FOLEY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT in relation to a report by the department  of  transportation  on
  noise abatement procedures at certain heliports and airports

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The New York state department of transportation,  with  the
cooperation  of the heliports and airports described in this section, is
authorized and directed to submit a report on  the  status  of  aircraft
compliance  with  noise  abatement procedures at public use heliports in
the county of Suffolk, and public use airports in the county of  Suffolk
having  not more than two hundred twenty based aircraft according to the
2005 annual aviation inventory conducted by the department of  transpor-
tation  in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 14-a of section
14 of the transportation law. Such report  shall  include,  but  not  be
limited to:
  1.  a  description of noise abatement procedures at such heliports and
airports;
  2. a description of such heliports' and airports'  operations  and  an
assessment  of  aircraft  compliance  with noise abatement procedures at
such heliports and airports, including, where such information is avail-
able:
  (a) the number of aircraft landings and take-offs,  by  aircraft  type
and  time  of  day,  at  each such heliport and airport on a monthly and
annual basis;
  (b) the number of  incidents,  on  a  monthly  and  annual  basis,  of
aircraft in non-compliance with such noise abatement procedures; and
  (c)  the  number  of  aircraft in compliance with such noise abatement
procedures;
  3. the means by which such heliports and airports:
  (a) notify and inform aircraft owners and operators of noise abatement
procedures in place at such heliports and airports;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (b) monitor and encourage aircraft compliance with such  noise  abate-
ment procedures, including the results of such monitoring and compliance
efforts;
  (c)  provide outreach to the general public about heliport and airport
noise abatement procedures; and
  (d) respond to complaints by the public of aircraft  noise,  including
the number and type of complaints on a monthly and annual basis, and the
way in which such complaints were addressed; and
  4.  any recommendations of the department of transportation to address
noise abatement at such heliports and airports.
  The commissioner of transportation shall  submit  such  report  on  or
before  December 1, 2012 to the governor, the temporary president of the
senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of  the  senate  and
assembly transportation committees.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.