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Weather Modification
Sponsor Name
North American Interstate Weather Modification Council
Project Name
Fiscal Year 2008 Request
Title
Fiscal Year 2008 Request
Prepared For
NAIWMC
Prepared By
JM McClintock Consulting, Inc
Date
2/24/2007
Bill Number
HR2995 & S.517
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<br />I <br /> <br />hdped establish scientific credibility in weather moditication during its fitlccn years of <br />operation. At its conclusion six states were involved in the program. Since Ihat time, <br />opcraliunal application of weather modification technology has increased significantly while <br />research funding has Jagged. Considering its past history with AMP and its cxpcnisc in <br />atmospheric research. the NAIWMC believes NOAA is the most appropriate federal agency in <br />which 10 house a new coordinated national weather modification research program. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Co.\GRESSIO:\:\L AlnIIORI/.ATIO:\ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Section 206(b) of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 W,L. 102~250) <br />specifically authorized the Bureau of Reclamation 10 fund the WDMP. The specific provision is <br />as follows: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The St'crelary is lIIallori:ed 10 COIldu{'I a Pn'dpitaliof/ MOllagt'ml'n1 Technology Trmufi'r Progro/1/ 10 help <br />alle\'iule prohl('II/.I" clIIl.w,d hy pn'cil'ifufiIJf/ .-ariahilily and droughts in the WesI. a.f purt of a hulut/ad long-Ierm <br />W(llt'1" re.\'OlIrce.f dt'I'('/opmt'l/lal/d "'wllIgemt'lI1 program. I" con.mllafiof/ lI'ith Stale, Trilllll, olld !IN:alwatt'r, <br />hydropoll'('r, waler Ijllalil)' alld im'frt'amjlol1" imt'rt'sl.f, area.f shall !It' selt"o/edfor nmdudillg co.I'I-.f!wredjield <br />.\1l1tJi('.f cmt-.l/wred 011 a 50-50 h,u'j" to mlidalt' (lIId qlltmfi[1' th,' pOlenti,,1 for apl,ropriuI" precipiltJIion <br />malll.lgl'mel/1 technology to (llIgmt.", sfn'wn jloll's. l'alidatt'J It,,'hllologie.f J/ldll he Irtlll.'i)t'rred to Iwn-Ft'deral <br />il/len'.\f.\ jilr OP('Ttllimwl implell/entation_ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />WDMP research funding first came from Congress in FY 2002 with an allocation of $2 million <br />in the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. An additional $2 million was approved to continue <br />the program for FY 2003. Since FY 2003, no additional funding has been appropriated for the <br />program. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Jh:O::'IiT Lt:Glsl.,\'un: [tH)RTS TO .\111110Rlzt: WL\TlIt:R ;\IOIlIt"lC.HIO:"o Rt:SE.-\RCII <br /> <br />On March 3. 2005. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas introduced S. 517. thc "Wealher <br />Modification Research and Technology Transfer AUlhorization Act of 2005." The stated <br />purpose of S. 517 as inlroduced was 10 "dcvelop and implement a comprehensive and <br />coordinated national wealher modification policy and a national cooperative Federal and State <br />program of wcather modification research and development" The bill would establish a <br />Weather Modification Advisory and Research Uoard within Ihe Departmenl ofCol11meree. The <br />primary function of the Board would be to "promote and fund research and development, studies <br />and investigalions with respcct to improved forecast and decision-making technologies for <br />\....cather modificalion operations, as well as to promote assessments and evaluations of the <br />ctlicacy of weather modification." S. 517 would create the Weathcr Modification Research .md <br />Dcvelopment Fund and authorizc $10 Million annually for Fiscal YcaTS 2005 Ihrough 2014, to <br />remain available until expended. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />On June 20, 2005, Congressman Mark Udall of Colorado introduced II.R. 2995. Ihc "Wcather <br />Moditication Research and Technology Transfer AUlhorization Act of 2005," as a companion 10 <br />Senator Hutchison's original bill. Thc bill was referred to the House Committee on Science, of <br />which Congressman Udall is a member. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The Senale Comminec on Comnu:rce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Disash:r <br />Prediction and Prevention and the Subcommittee on Science and Space (which was chaired by <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />I <br />
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