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... IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE As the population of the United States and, indeed, the METRICS world increases and developing countries become more industrialized, problems of noise are likely to become The committee looked in detail at the state of the technolmore pervasive and lower the quality of life for everyone. ogy with regard to noise metrics and concluded that modern Efforts to manage noise exposures, to design quieter build- advances in our ability to collect, store, and analyze noise ings, products, equipment, and transportation vehicles, and data challenge us to reexamine current metrics that were to provide a regulatory environment that facilitates adequate, developed in the 1970s or earlier with the objective of develcost-effective, sustainable noise controls require our immedi- oping metrics better related to human response to noise.
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... EU member states have placed signifi- This report also examines the state of noise control encant emphasis on the need for noise emission standards and gineering education and concludes that the nation needs to have exercised waxing influence within the ISO, and to some educate specialists in the field and provide basic knowledge extent the IEC, on the development of international noise of the principles of noise control engineering to individuals emission standards. Meanwhile, U.S.
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... Nevertheless, public information, and engineering societies can contribute reduced noise levels will contribute to improved quality of information on noise reduction that is accessible to the pub life for many Americans, and the committee believes that lic. Citizens groups can also be a source of public informa the recommendations in this report, if implemented, will tion on noise.
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