Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60

§330c Authority of Secretary

Title 15 › Chapter 9A— WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES OR ATTEMPTS; REPORTING REQUIREMENT › § 330c

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can require people who do weather-modification work to give testimony, papers, reports, or let officials inspect their records and property. The Secretary can also make rules about keeping and turning in reports. The Secretary must not ask for information that a federal agency already has in adequate, authoritative form. If someone ignores a legal order (a subpoena), the Attorney General can ask a U.S. district court where that person is found, lives, or does business to force them to testify or hand over documents. If the person still disobeys the court, the court can punish them for contempt.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §330c

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(a)The Secretary may obtain from any person whose activities relate to weather modification by rule, subpena, or otherwise such information in the form of testimony, books, records, or other writings, may require the keeping and furnishing of such reports and records, and may make such inspection of the books, records, and other writings and premises and property of any person as may be deemed necessary or appropriate by him to carry out the provisions of this chapter, but this authority shall not be exercised to obtain any information with respect to which adequate and authoritative data are available from any Federal agency.

(b)In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpena served upon any person pursuant to this section, the district court of the United States for any district in which such person is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the Attorney General, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such person to appear and give testimony or to appear and produce documents, or both; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 330c

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60