---
kind: "section"
citation: "23 C.F.R. § 772.19"
title: "23"
number: "772.19"
heading: "Construction noise."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/23/772.19"
---

# §772.19. Construction noise.


For all Type I and II projects, a highway agency shall:

- (a) Identify land uses or activities that may be affected by noise from construction of the project. The identification is to be performed during the project development studies.
- (b) Determine the measures that are needed in the plans and specifications to minimize or eliminate adverse construction noise impacts to the community. This determination shall include a weighing of the benefits achieved and the overall adverse social, economic, and environmental effects and costs of the abatement measures.
- (c) **Incorporate the needed abatement measures in the plans and specifications.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 109(h) and (i); 42 U.S.C. 4331, 4332; sec. 339(b), Pub. L. 104-59, 109 Stat. 568, 605; 49 CFR 1.48(b).

### Source

Source: 75 FR 39834, July 13, 2010, unless otherwise noted.