research program at a strength sufficient to the Navy’s and the 
Nation’s long-term needs. 
NACOA, FINDING that a marginal capability now exists in some types 
of weather modification and that economic pressures, such as the increased 
economic value of food, are forcing it to go operational without sufficient 
scientific understanding or concomitant careful public management REC- 
OMMENDS, as it has in previous annual reports, that: 
We overcome the existing fragmentation of Federal R&D programs 
in weather modification by assigning a lead-agency role to NOAA. 
Greater emphasis be placed on research on the physics of cloud 
formation and the science and technology of rainfall augmentation. 
That legislative and public policy issues governing the proper use 
of a new technological capability be examined, and in particular 
that the United States take the initiative in establishing international 
agreement to insure that weather modification efforts be devoted to 
mutually beneficial purposes. 
