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Noise Pollution: Federal Program to Control It Has Been Slow and Ineffective

CED-77-42 Published: Mar 07, 1977. Publicly Released: Mar 07, 1977.
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Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made some progress in fulfilling the requirements of the Noise Control Act of 1972, implementation of many of the Act's provisions has been slow and sometimes ineffective.

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