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Noise is playing an ever increasing role in our lives and seems a regret-table, but ultimately avoidable corollary of current technology. The trend toward the use of more labor-saving devices, sports and pleasure craft, high-wattage stereo and quadriphony, larger construction machinery, and the increasing numbers of ground vehicles and aircraft, has created a gradual acceptance of noise as a natural by-product of progress. Indeed, prior to 1972 the only major federal activity in the field of noise control legislation was a 1968 amendment to the Federal Aviation Act, whereby the FAA was directed to regulate civil aircraft noise during landings and takeoffs, and including sonic booms.
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Pereira, N.C. (1979). Introduction to Noise Pollution. In: Wang, L.K., Pereira, N.C. (eds) Air and Noise Pollution Control. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 1. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6236-7_9
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