While I agree it would be a bit over the top for the EPA to regulate noise levels, the EPA is a necessity of the USA. Environmental Protection Agency - think about that phrase. Do you not want that? Do you want our environment to go to shit so that in the near future we can have wars over clean water? Do you want to have to find new, habitable land since our own is so trashed? Do you want our children and theirs to breathe putrid, polluted air? Are you so selfish you don't care in what conditions our future generations will live? We need the EPA; to abolish it would be to abolish humanity. If you answered no to any of these questions, the EPA should be something you care to keep.

The EPA is unconstitutional and any action by this organization should be ignored.

A better plan would be to shut down the EPA entirely!

No more govt interference, don't move near airports. Why do we think that things we'd like need to be forced on others.

Sounds like the old story of buying cheap land next to rail line. Really quiet until the train makes its run. This should/would be a city/state project. I believe if you buy a home next to a airport, noise is what you want. If you build a nice home next to a dairy, it's your bad. But if you live in a house and a asphalt company moves in next door. By all means, time to complain. May I say then…get your Federal outreach out of my back yard. And allowing the EPA to intervene is like pumping heavy metal mining sludge into your swimming pool.

I generally support the EPA, but it is the ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency. Unless noise is harming the environment, noise pollution is not within its purview.

I like what Countable member Jim2423 said: "The airports were build on the outskirts of cities to begin with. You knew or should have been told you are renting or buying a home within the flight path. Just like buying or renting a home near a dairy, you know it is going to stink." I also concur with everyone who believes that the EPA has gotten too big (and powerful) for its britches! Too many have had their Constitutional rights trampled on by this agency and, in fact, by the whole federal government, especially under the Obama Administration! "The best government is that which governs least." (Motto of United States Magazine and Democratic Review. First used in introductory essay by editor John L. O'Sullivan in the premier issue of October, 1837, p. 6)

The EPA needs to disappear

All we need is more regulation!

The EPA has to much power already!

If the FAA is currently responsible for this, then why not just hold them responsible for doing so? Why create another department under the EPA. It just baffles me that rather than hold the responsible party accountable, the answer is always to create duplication and spend more money.

For God sake regulate the EPA they're the ones making all the noise that's stifling American growth!

Another major overreach of the Federal Government to control minor issues that they have absolutely no jurisdiction over.

Practically, (1) there is no money for new departments, (2) there is no constitutional authority for the EPA to unilaterally declare itself in charge of noise, and (3) there is no constitutional authority for the EPA in the first place. Philosophically, there is only a legitimate claim against pollution - noise or otherwise - insofar as a person, business, or organization can show material damages, and damages can already be pursued in court, ergo the entire EPA is simply redundant and therefore unnecessary.

Is this a legitimate bill?

First, get rid of the EPA. If that doesn't happen, then the EPA should stick to what they claim to know, the Environmental.

The EPA has gotten entirely too powerful. They have regulated most of our businesses to death which is one reason many businesses are leaving the US. Give them less not more power.

EPA seems like the wrong agency.