ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION No. 185

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 4, 1997

 

 

By Assemblyman TALARICO and Asemblywoman HECK

 

 

An Assembly Resolution memorializing the Congress of the United States and the Federal Aviation Administration to take steps to control noise and expansion at Teterboro Airport.

 

Whereas, Teterboro Airport is located in the boroughs of Teterboro and Moonachie in Bergen County, New Jersey, a heavily populated residential and commercial area; and

Whereas, Teterboro Airport is designated as one of the reliever airports for Newark International Airport's scheduled airline service and also functions as a major business aviation center for corporate and private aviation operations; and

Whereas, In recent years the character of Teterboro Airport has changed from an airport which has had a limited number of larger jet aircraft and corporate jet activity to one in which a greater number of larger jets are permitted to operate at the airport and where corporate jet activity operates at a high level; and

Whereas, Plans are being discussed to expand corporate jet activity at Teterboro Airport by using it as a reliever airport for Newark International Airport's corporate jet traffic; and

Whereas, The confluence of airline traffic from Newark International Airport, Teterboro Airport, LaGuardia and Kennedy Airports over the residential communities of northern New Jersey, such as the communities of Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Lodi, Moonachie, South Hackensack and Wood-Ridge in the Teterboro area, creates an intolerable level of aircraft noise for residents of these communities which adversely affects their physical and mental health and well-being, and lowers the property values of their residences; and

Whereas, It is in the public interest for steps to be taken to control the level of aviation noise caused by excessive aircraft traffic at Teterboro Airport and prevent the expansion of further corporate jet activity at that facility; now, therefore;

 

    Be It Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:


    1. The Congress of the United States and the Federal Aviation Administration are respectfully memorialized to take appropriate steps to control the level of aviation noise at Teterboro Airport in Bergen County, New Jersey, and to prevent the expansion of further corporate jet activity at that facility.

 

    2. Duly authenticated copies of this resolution, signed by the Speaker of the General Assembly and attested by the Clerk thereof, shall be transmitted to the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, every member of Congress from this State and the Director of the Federal Aviation Administration.

 

STATEMENT

 

    The purpose of this resolution is to memorialize the Congress of the United States and the Federal Aviation Administration to take appropriate steps to control the level of aviation noise at Teterboro Airport in Bergen County, New Jersey, and to prevent the expansion of corporate jet activity at that facility.

 

 

                             

 

Memorializes Congress and FAA to take steps to control noise at Teterboro Airport.