Regulations and Government
Working group to address Grand Canyon noise issue
In 1987 the National Parks Overflights Act mandated substantial restoration of “natural quiet” at Grand Canyon National Park.

In 1987 the National Parks Overflights Act mandated substantial restoration of “natural quiet” at Grand Canyon National Park. Seventeen years later, the FAA and the National Park Service (NPS) agreed to resolve the overflight noise issues together. In the spring of last year they concluded that they might find a widely acceptable solution if they involved stakeholders, broadly defined as individuals and organizations with business, ideological or personal interest in the Grand Canyon.

The two agencies engaged Lucy Moore Associates of Santa Fe, N.M., to survey those stakeholders to determine whether a public collaborative process could produce an overflight noise solution. The survey agency asked a broad range of respondents for ideas about how such a process might work.

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