23 CFR § 772.1 - Purpose.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t23/s772.1"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "23 CFR § 772.1 - Purpose."
title_number: 23
title_name: "Highways"
section_number: "772.1"
section_name: "Purpose."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION"
subchapter_number: "H"
subchapter_name: "RIGHT-OF-WAY AND ENVIRONMENT"
part_number: "772"
part_name: "PROCEDURES FOR ABATEMENT OF HIGHWAY TRAFFIC NOISE AND CONSTRUCTION NOISE"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
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)."
regulatory_source: "75 FR 39834, July 13, 2010, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "772"
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# 772.1 Purpose.

To provide procedures for noise studies and noise abatement measures to help protect the public's health, welfare and livability, to supply noise abatement criteria, and to establish requirements for information to be given to local officials for use in the planning and design of highways approved pursuant to title 23 U.S.C.