FD 35952 · GREAT LAKES BASIN TRANSPORTATION, INC.-RAIL CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION-IN ROCK COUNTY, WISC., WINNEBAGO, OGLE, LEE, LASALLE, GRUNDY, AND KANKAKEE COUNTIES, ILL., AND LAKE AND PORTER COUNTIES, IND.

Comment EI-22390

Received or sent 2 May 2016 (printed as 5/2/2016)

Loud, persistent noise IS pollution. It causes sleep deprivation, disrupts circadian rhythms in animals and induces neurotic behavior in humans. The impact of being exposed to the noise from 110 trains a day is absolutely aural pollution.

Submitted by: Carla Brownlee · Sheridan, IL

The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.

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