Which act required the FAA to study the social, economic, and health effects of airport noise?

• A. The Airport and Airway Safety, Capacity, Noise Improvement, and Intermodal Transportation Act
• B. The Noise Reduction Act
• C. The Environmental Noise Act
• D. The Aviation Noise Wellness Act

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is understanding which law gave the FAA a formal obligation to examine how airport noise affects people and communities. The act in question specifically expands the FAA’s role to study social, economic, and health effects of noise around airports and to use what it finds to guide noise- and capacity-related decisions. This means the FAA would evaluate how noise influences quality of life, property values, local economies, and public health, and then base mitigation and planning efforts on those findings.

That’s why this option is the best fit: it explicitly includes studying the broad impacts of airport noise and using those insights to inform policy and noise improvement measures. The other acts address different topics or noise policy in a more general sense, and they do not carry the same explicit mandate to study the social, economic, and health effects of airport noise in the way described.