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<br />SECTION 3 - LEGAL ASPECTS OF WEATHER MODIFICATION <br /> <br />Ray Jay Davis, Non~Member Advisorl <br /> <br />3.1 INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />In a well-ordered society which reflects the will of <br />the people and accommodates their competing interests, law <br />is an expression of policy decisions intended to assure a <br />fair balance between the opportunity to advance individual <br />and group concerns and the 'ne~d to consider the rights of <br />the remainder of society. Law i~ a tool through which deter- <br />minations about public policy are expressed and applied. <br /> <br />Law relating to weather modification, as well as to other <br />activities, is formulated by three governmental branches. <br />Legislative bodies, Congress ~n~ state legislatures enact <br />statues which may deal directly:: with cloud seeding or which <br />may apply to weather modification as well as to other kinds <br />of activities. Congress has passed Public Law 92-205 which <br />gives expression to the policy de,cision that a fair accommodation <br />of public and private interests dictates that persons carrying <br />out weather modification activities report them so the public <br /> <br />will know what has been done. <br />citizens from incompetent or <br />enacted regulatory legislation. <br /> <br />And states, to <br />dishonest cloud <br /> <br />protect their <br />seeders, have <br /> <br />Usually statutes only express policy in the broadest <br />manner and leave "filling in th. details" to administrative <br /> <br />1professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, <br />Provo, Utah 84602 <br /> <br />3-1 <br />