Tinicum Twp. v. U.S. Dept of Transp. País/Territorio Estados Unidos de América Tipo de la corte Nacional - corte superior Fecha Mar 6, 2012 Fuente UNEP, InforMEA Nombre del tribunal United States Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit Juez Scirica, Ambro and Jordan. Número de referencia No. 11-1472 Idioma Inglés Materia Medio ambiente gen., Tierra y suelos Palabra clave Manejo de tierras Contaminación acústica Normas sobre ruido Ruido de vehículos Emisiones acústicas Ruido de las aeronaves Resumen The city of Philadelphia sought U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval in 2003 to expand its international airport. FAA designated the project as high priority and proceeded to perform an expedited environmental review under the Aviation Streamlining Approval Process Act. On multiple occasions during the draft environmental impact statement process, EPA submitted comments, some of which FAA adopted. The petitioners argued that the environmental review was inadequate under NEPA, pointing to comments submitted by EPA but not implemented by FAA. The petitioner, a township that borders the airport expansion area, accused FAA of violating the National Environmental Policy Act (NE PA) by failing to adopt EPA comments calling for additional data to be evaluated in the projects air-quality analysis. According to the three-judge panel, FAA appropriately considered all of EPAs comments and was within its authority to disagree with some of them. The court found that FAA gave the required “serious consideration and reasonable responses” to each of EPAs concerns and was under no obligation to “slavishly” follow EPAs comments. Texto completo COU-159404.pdf