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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 690

WHEREAS, The City of Park Ridge has participated with the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission and Technical Committee (ONCC) and Citizens Against Plane Pollution (CAPP) on a continued basis in support of their mission statement; and

WHEREAS, The impacted families of CAPP, a volunteer group of families seeking solutions to the nighttime low-level cargo flights at O'Hare International Airport, have seen a continued steady rise in complaints against the backdrop of nighttime take-offs and jet aircraft noise with a grand total of well over 24,000 for the year 2011; and

WHEREAS, The City of Park Ridge lays underneath the key nighttime air routes that converge over the community; this includes 5 glide paths, 2 major take-off plates, air routes, all used after 10 p.m.; and

WHEREAS, The City of Park Ridge seeks a solution to the nighttime sleep interruptions during the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., including the shoulder hours as well; and

WHEREAS, The Nextgen Program is currently being applied at O'Hare International Airport, where flights that used to be 5 miles spaced apart will soon be only a 3-mile separation, times 6 east-to-west approach patterns for all inbound flights; and

WHEREAS, The City of Park Ridge is experiencing higher levels of jet noise, especially during the phase 1 nighttime flight operations; and

WHEREAS, The current fly quiet program needs to be re-evaluated for the purposes of instilling and sharing the primary purpose of flight and community partnership at O'Hare International Airport with all of the collar communities; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the Federal Aviation Administration and O'Hare International Airport authorities to decrease jet noise over the collar communities by establishing a full-time fly quiet program and urge the creation and passage of a federal homeowner's aviation fly quiet act; and be it further

RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be delivered to the Commissioner of O'Hare International Airport, the Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and to each member of the Illinois congressional delegation.