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<br />(2) Establishes an advisory committee to assist the <br />Director in developing licensing standards, and evaluating <br />proposed projects, and to sit as a fact finding review body <br />when damages are claimed as a result of weather modification <br />operations, or when the conduct of an operation is challenged; <br /> <br />(3) Requires all weather modifiers to obtain a li- <br />cense and a permit before a project may be started; <br /> <br />(4) Establishes guidelines which the Director must <br />consider before a permit for any weather modification oper- <br />ation can be issued; <br /> <br />(5) Requires publication of a proposed operation in <br />the area affedted and it requires that a public hearing be <br />held before operational permits can be approved; <br /> <br />(6) Empowers the director to set specific operational <br />requirements (limitations) for each operation and grants him <br />the authority to modify or suspend the permit if there appears <br />to be any violation of the original operational requirements <br />or any danger to health, safety, or the environment; <br /> <br />(7) Strengthens the powers of the Director to suspend <br />and cancel any weather modification project; and <br /> <br />(8) Recommends that the act become effective upon its <br />passage by the General Assembly and that eighteen thousand <br />dollars ($18,000) be appropriated to the director to adminis- <br />ter the act. The $18,000 is recommended based on a $15,000 <br />annual appropriation; the additional $3,000 is included to <br />allow immediate implementation of the act during the time <br />between passage and the beginning of the 1972 fiscal year. <br /> <br />xvi <br />