HB 2497-S - DIGEST
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Authorizes a port district operating an airport serving more than nine hundred scheduled jet aircraft flights per day to undertake any of the programs, or combinations of programs, authorized by chapter 53.54 RCW (aircraft noise abatement), for the purpose of alleviating and abating the impact of jet aircraft noise on areas surrounding the airport.

Prohibits the port district from undertaking any of the programs in an area which is: (1) More than twelve miles beyond the paved end of a runway;

(2) More than two miles from the centerline of a runway or from an imaginary runway centerline extending twelve miles from the paved end of the runway; or

(3) Outside of the area contained by a parabola where the parabola is located at the terminal end of each runway.