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municipal, and other beneficial consumptive uses, and 

 for other purposes. 



S.222, a bill to provide for the development and reg- 

 ulation of methods of weather modification and control. 



S. 798, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to conduct research and experiments with respect to methods 

 of controlling and producing precipitation in moisture - 

 deficient areas. 



The attitude of the Weather Bureau is summarized in a statement 

 presented to the above groups on March 14, 1951, by W. F. McDonald, 

 assistant chief of the United States Weather Eureau, and a further clari- 

 fication of Weather Eureau views is found in the subsequent questioning 

 of Mr. McDonald by members of the committees. 



The fact that the challenges to the validity of Project Cirrus claims 

 are not confined to the Weather Bureau is also indicated during the same 

 Senate hearings. Statements were made at those hearings by other indi- 

 viduals not associated with the Weather Bureau, and some of those individ- 

 uals did not agree with the findings of Project Cirrus. Among them were 

 Hans H. Neuberger, professor of meteorology and chief of the Division 

 of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State College, and Charles L. Hosier, a 

 staff member of that college; and Henry G. Houghton, professor of meteor- 

 ology and head of the Department of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology. 



LEGISLATION 



For various reasons, national legislation has been suggested, and 

 actually introduced, to regulate and control artificial weather modification. 

 Of the three bills referred to in the preceding paragraphs, two (S.222 and 

 S.798) specifically covered this proposed regulation and control (S.222) 

 and authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct research and ex- 

 periments (S.798). 



Since that time a new bill was drafted and introduced in the Senate, 

 82d Congress, second session: S.2225. This bill would create a tempor- 

 ary advisory committee of nine persons to study and evaluate experiments 

 in weather modification, continuing no longer than July 30, 1955. The com- 

 mittee would report to Congress at the earliest possible moment on the 

 advisability of the Government regulating, by means of licenses or other- 

 wise, the activities of persons attempting to modify the weather. The ad- 

 visory committee would consist of five members appointed from public 



