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Environmental Protection	Washington DC 20460
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GARBAGE TRUCK	The wording of* the U.S. Environmental Protection
NOISE REGULATIONS
AMENDED	Agency's garbage truck noise regulation has been re-
vised.. Three technical amendments clarify or
correct portions of the. 1979 regulation, as follows:
(1)	The regulation called (in Section 205.205.
11) for manufacturers to place a label on each
vehicle stating that it is warranted not to exceed
the EPA noise standard. The amendment removes any
reference to warranties. The amended regulation,in-'
stead, wi 11 require a label saying that the vehicle
is subject to the federal noise: emission regulation.
(2)	The regulation (in Section 205.204(b))
prescribed the grading for drainage of the paved test
site to be used in: testing garbage truck noise.. Some
companies found the wording ambiguous. They mis-
interpreted the language to mean that the site could
not deviate from the horizontal by more than the
tolerance stated in the regulation. The agency's
intent was, and is, that the test site may not
deviate from a true plane by more than the tolerance.
The key sentence in the new wording reads: "The test
site reflecting plane may be graded with a constant
slope to permit drainage."
(3)	The regulation in Section 205.204 (c), Test
Procedures, due to a typographical error, failed to
state fully the type of sound level meter required
for testing. The amendments revise the regulation to
state that a Type 1 sound level meter is required.
The amendments were published in the Federal Register
on October 3, 1980.

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