The President can exempt federal facilities from noise requirements only for paramount national interest

Evidence

The President compliance exmay exempt any single activity or facility, including noise emission d^ntiaravrthofity. sources or classes thereof, of any department, agency, or instrumentality in the executive branch from compliance with any such requirement if he determines it to be in the paramount interest of the United States to do so; except that no exemption, other than for those products referred to in section 3(3) (B) of this Act, may be granted from the requirements of sections 6, 17, and 18 of this Act. No such exemption shall be granted due to lack of appropriation unless the ;. President shall have specifically requested such appropriation as a part of the budgetary process and the Congress shall have failed to make available such requested appropriation. — United States Congress (Pub. L. No. 92-574, 86 Stat. 1234), Noise Control Act of 1972, 25

Categorization

• DEFINE: This exemption clause carves out the sovereign/executive exception to the federal self-compliance duty in a way that the ONAC funding fight exploits.
• XREF: The ‘paramount interest’ waiver echoes national-security exemptions across environmental statutes — relevant to how military bases and federal noise sources evade environmental law. — connects to: States retain authority to regulate noise through use restrictions beyond product emission limits — United States Congress (Pub. L. No. 92-574, 86 Stat. 1234), Noise Control Act of 1972, 76; All federal agencies are directed to further the noise policy declared in the Act — United States Congress (Pub. L. No. 92-574, 86 Stat. 1234), Noise Control Act of 1972, 23