ELR Citation: ELR 20526
No(s). 85-5272 (3d Cir. Jan 27, 1986)

The court holds that §17 of the Federal Noise Control Act preempts Delaware's stricter noise control statute and regulations regarding activities at an interstate railroad facility. Adopting the rationale of the district court decision, 15 ELR 20584, the court rules that the Noise Control Act preempts a state standard where the Environmental Protection Agency has adopted federal standards regulating railroad noise or, as in this case, where it has declined to prescribe a federal property line noise standard because it is unnecessary.

Counsel for Appellees
William E. Manning, David S. Swayze
Prickett, Jones, Elliott, Kristol & Schnee
P.O. Box 1328, Wilmington DE 19899
(302) 658-5102

Counsel for Appellants
F. Henry Habicht II, Lawrence R. Liebesman
Land and Natural Resources Division
Department of Justice, Washington DC 20530
(202) 633-2281

John J. Polk, Deputy Attorney General
Department of Justice, State Office Bldg., 820 N. French St., Wilmington DE 19801
(302) 571-2500

Before Higginbotham, Sloviter and Mansmann, JJ.