NOISE MONITOR ACT-SPONSOR

Amends the Permanent Noise Monitoring Act. Provides that responsibility for ensuring that each airport has an operable permanent noise monitoring system lies with the airport sponsor, defined as any municipality that can own and operate an airport, rather than with the Division of Aeronautics of the Illinois Department of Transportation. Provides that the airport sponsor shall be responsible for the operation of each system and for the design and construction of any new system. Provides that, beginning in 2009, the airport sponsor (rather than the Division) shall be responsible for preparing and making available to the public, twice each year, a permanent noise monitoring report. Provides that, beginning in 2009, the Division shall be provided with a copy of each report. Effective immediately.