Public Comment on Maintaining Records and Submitting Reports on Weather Modification Activities

Cloud seeding was the primary weather modification activity that was widely conducted at the time with the goal of increasing rain, increasing snowpack, dissipating fog, or mitigating damage from hail, but Congress defined the scope of weather modification based on standard definitions of the weather to encompass “any activity performed with the intention of producing artificial changes in the com. [...] Here we review the broad categories of such activities, and the application of the Reporting Act’s definition of weather modification to each: Greenhouse Gas Removal (GHGR) Activities The most common of these is Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) activities, which seek to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. [...] These include the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the National Forest Management Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the River and Harbors. [...] (5) Improve compliance and enforcement The Reporting Act grants the Secretary of Commerce the power of subpoena to obtain information from people conducting weather modification activities, and imposes a fine of up to $10,000 for any person convicted of “knowingly and willingly” violating the reporting requirements of the Act. [...] While the preamble of the National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976 does state that “It is therefore declared to be the purpose of the Congress in this Act to develop a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy and a national program of weather modification research and development,” the actionable text of the law calls on the .