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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§330c Authority of Secretary

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may require anyone who works on weather modification to give testimony, reports, books, records, or other writings, and to let officials inspect papers and premises. The Secretary can do this by rule, subpoena, or other means, but cannot demand information that a federal agency already has in adequate and authoritative form. If someone refuses a subpoena, the Attorney General can ask the U.S. district court where that person lives, is found, or does business to order them to testify or hand over documents. Ignoring the court’s order can be punished as contempt.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §330c

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(a)Information; reports and records; inspection; availability of data from any Federal agency as limitation of authority
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)Noncompliance; application of Attorney General; jurisdiction; orders; contempts
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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110