Weather Modification Activity Reports 1974
November 1, 1972, to December 31, 1973 By Mason T. Charak and Mary T. DiGiulian Environmental Modification Office Rockville, Maryland March 1974
In 1966, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began collecting reports on weather modification activities under Public Law 85"510. Two years later, Congress enacted Public Law 90-^07, part of which repealed the powers of the Foundation to require persons to report. During those two years, NSF published summaries of the reported activities covering fiscal years 1 967 and 1968. These summaries were included in the NSF annual reports on weather modification that were submitted to the President and the Congress (National Science Foundation 1968, 1969). From 1968 until passage of Public Law 92-205 in 1971, no Federal department or agency was authorized to collect activity reports. However, pertinent activities of this period are described in the NOAA summary of weather modification research and operational activities during FY 1969 _ 71 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1973a). A similar report covering FY 1972 has also been published (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1973b). These NOAA summary reports continue the type of annual report formerly prepared by the NSF for fiscal years 1959~68. However, more timely information on the weather modification reporting program is summarized in this series of reports, initiated by Charak and DiGiulian (1973).
