Facts
X. is the owner of a villa and an outbuilding located near the Mutrux shooting range, which belongs to the Union Jurassienne shooting club. Since 1983, X. has taken various steps to obtain a limitation of the noise from the shooting. On January 5, 1999, the Department of Security and Environment approved a remediation plan for the shooting range, setting operating conditions aimed at reducing noise nuisance.
X. appealed against this decision to the Administrative Court of the Canton of Vaud, which dismissed his appeal. X. then filed an administrative law appeal with the Federal Tribunal, requesting the annulment of the decision and the referral of the case back to the cantonal department.
Considerations
The Federal Tribunal dismissed the appeal. It considered that the shooting range, as a noisy installation, was subject to the federal rules on noise protection and had to be remediated in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act (LPE) and the Noise Protection Ordinance (OPB).
The Federal Tribunal examined the various grievances of the appellant concerning the method of determining the noise level, the measurements carried out and the calculations made. It concluded that the cantonal authorities had correctly applied the…