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After the watershed passage of the United States Noise Control Act of 1972, [2] other local and state governments passed further regulations. A noise regulation [citation needed] restricts the amount of noise, the duration of noise and the source of noise. It usually places restrictions for certain times of the day. [3]
Ward v. Rock Against Racism, 491 U.S. 781 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case.. In an opinion by Justice Kennedy, the Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a New York City regulation that mandated the use of city-provided sound systems and technicians to control the volume of concerts in New York City's Central Park.
The regulations replaced the Noise at Work Regulations 1989 which had been introduced as a response to the 1986 European directive 86/188/EEC. [5] In 2001 the Swedish presidency of the EU put forward a proposal which would seek to replace the existing directive with a new one, 2003/10/EC. [ 5 ]
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It also put local governments on notice as to their responsibilities in land-use planning to address noise mitigation. This noise regulation framework comprised a broad data base detailing the extent of noise health effects. Congress ended funding of the federal noise control program in 1981, which curtailed development of further national ...
An effective model for noise control is the source, path, and receiver model by Bolt and Ingard. [9] Hazardous noise can be controlled by reducing the noise output at its source, minimizing the noise as it travels along a path to the listener, and providing equipment to the listener or receiver to attenuate the noise.