Sec. 805. Environmental Review and Noise Certification
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Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall publish drone-specific environmental review guidance and implementation procedures and thereafter revise such guidance as appropriate to carry out the requirements of this section. Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator shall examine and integrate programmatic-level approaches to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ) (including regulations promulgated to carry out that Act) for the commercial drone industry to create an efficient process for preparing environmental reviews of reasonably foreseeable drone operations across a geographic region, for an individual operator’s network of drone operations within a defined geographic region, and for operations within and over commercial and industrial sites closed or restricted to the public.
The Administrator shall engage in ongoing consultations with the Council on Environmental Quality to identify actions that are appropriate for a categorical exclusion and shall incorporate such actions in FAA Order 1050.1F, as amended or revised, from time to time, as, and when, deemed appropriate. Upon the date of enactment of this section, and notwithstanding the requirements of section 44715 of title 49, United States Code, the Administrator shall waive the determination of compliance with part 36 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, for drone models seeking type and airworthiness certification, and shall not deny, withhold, or delay such certification due to the absence of a noise certification basis under such part, provided the FAA has developed appropriate noise measurement procedures for such drone models and the FAA has received the noise measurement results based on those procedures from the applicant.
The suspension provided in this subsection shall continue until such time as the Administrator publishes final noise certification standards for drones as amendments to part 36 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, or to another part of title 14 of such Code. Based on drone noise data the Administrator has received in the process of reviewing applications for type and airworthiness certification, in conducting environmental assessments of proposed drone operations under section 44807 of title 49, United States Code, and part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, and from other sources, including standards organizations, the Administrator shall propose generally applicable drone noise certification standards, not later than the date that is 36 months after the date of enactment of this section, and following notice and comment rulemaking procedures, and shall publish final noise certification standards not later than 24 months after the date on which the period for public comment on such proposed generally applicable noise certification standards ends.
In this section, the term drone has the meaning given the term unmanned aircraft in section 44801 of title 49, United States Code.
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