United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Press Office (A-107)
Washington DC 20460
HrEPA Environments
News
FOR RELEASE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1980
Sibbison (202) 755-0344
EPA SUPPORTS
INGLEWOOD AIR
NOISE PROGRAM
Barbara Blum, Deputy Administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, today
endorsed a plan by the city of Inglewood, California
to establish one of the most extensive airplane noise
reduction programs in the nation.
As now contemplated, Blum said, the program would call
for offering relocation opportunities to quieter
neighborhoods to the approximately 4,000 people of the
North Lockhaven area in Inglewood who live directly
under the flight paths of jet aircraft. The airplanes
are landing or taking off at Los Angeles International
Airport.
Present plans, said Blum, anticipate an expenditure of
$200 million for the relocation-redevelopment project
to be provided by industry, private organizations,
federal and local governments. She said EPA will
provide a $25,000 grant to help plan the project.
EPA's endorsement of the project represents part of
the agency's initiative under President Carter'?
urban noise program, announced last yegr. EPA will
work with other federal agencies under the auspices
of the interagency urban noise committee, headed by
EPA Administrator Douglas M. Costle, to facilitate
this project.
"Noise levels in the North Lockhaven area make the
normal processes of daily living all but impossible
to pursue," said Blum. "What was once a pleasant
place to live in has degenerated into a fear-ridden
community with a high crime rate.
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"The goal of the Inglewood program would be to help North Lockhaven
improve its economic future and to make it possible for the citizens
now living there to* obtain new and improved housing in a suitable
environment."
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