NOAA 7-4A Weather Modification Activities Interim/Final Report

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NOAA FORM 17-4A
(4-81)

INTERIM ACTIVITY REPORTS AND FINAL REPORT

NOAA FILE NUMBER

This report is required by Public Law 92-205; 85 Stat. 735; 145 U.S.C. 330b. Knowing and
willful violation of any rule adopted under the authority of Section 2 of Public Law 92-205
shall subject the person violating such rule to a fine of not more than $10,000, upon
conviction thereof.

INTERIM
REPORT

Complete in accordance with instructions on reverse and forward one copy to:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
1315 East-West Highway SSMC-3 Room 11216
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(a)
MONTH

NUMBER OF
MODIFICATION
DAYS

(b)
NUMBER OF MODIFICATION DAYS PER
MAJOR PURPOSE
INCREASE
PRECIPITA­
TION

ALLEVIATE
HAIL

REPORTING PERIOD
FROM

TO

(c)
HOURS OF APPARATUS
OPERATION BY TYPE

OTHER

FINAL
REPORT

AIRBORNE

GROUND

FOG

(d)
TYPE AND AMOUNT OF AGENT USED
SILVER
IODIDE

CARBON
DIOXIDE

UREA

SODIUM
CHLORIDE

OTHER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

TOTAL

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

TOTALS
FOR FINAL
REPORT

DATE ON WHICH FINAL WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITY OCCURRED (For Final Report only.)
CERTIFICATION: I certify that all statements in this report on this weather
modification project are complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and are
made in good faith.

NAME OF REPORTING PERSON

AFFILIATION

SIGNATURE

STREET ADDRESS

OFFICIAL TITLE

CITY

Reset

STATE

ZIP CODE

DATE

0

0

0

0

INSTRUCTIONS FOR INTERIM AND FINAL REPORTS

Any person engaged in any weather modification project or activity in the United States on January 1 in
any year shall submit one copy of this form setting forth as of such date the information required with
respect to each such continuing project or activity not previously furnished in a prior interim report. The
box indicating “Interim Report” should be checked. The January 1 date shall not apply if other
arrangements have previously been made with the written approval of the Administrator of NOAA. The
report shall be received by NOAA not later than 45 days following the end of the reported period.
Upon completion of a project or activity one copy of this report shall be submitted and the box checked
indicating “Final Report.” The final report shall be received by NOAA not later than 45 days after the
completion of the project or activity.
The NOAA File Number should be filled in for any project for which the Administrator has assigned a file
number.
A supplemental report in letter form referring to the appropriate NOAA file number must be made to the
Administrator if the “Interim” or “Final” reports are found to contain any material inaccuracies,
misstatements, and omissions.
INTERIM REPORT
The information in Items (a) through (d) on the report form should be provided as prescribed below for
the months to which the report pertains. I no data are applicable for any given item in any month, enter
zero.
Item (a).

Enter number of days on which actual weather modification activities took place.

Item (b).

Enter in the appropriate column number of days on which modification activities were
conducted, segregated by each of the major purposes of the activities. Normally, the total
of entries in (b) would equal total in (a).

Item (c).

Enter in the appropriate column total number of hours of operation of each type of weather
modification apparatus, (i.e., net hours of agent release). If the form does not contain
sufficient space, report additional types on a separate sheet.

Item (d).

Enter in the appropriate column total amount of agent used, by type. If the form does not
contain sufficient space, report additional types on a separate sheet. Silver Iodide (grams),
Carbon Dioxide (pounds), Urea (gallons), Sodium Chloride (grams), Other (indicate on a
separate sheet the type and unit of measure).

The totals for these items shall be provided for the period covered by the interim report.
FINAL REPORT
The final report shall contain the information required for interim reports, to the extent not previously
reported. In addition, the items designated as “Totals for Final Report” should be reported. This
information should pertain to the entire project or activity period, rather than only the period since the last
interim report. At the space at the end of the form, enter the date on which final weather modification
activity occurred.

INFORMATION PROVIDED UNDER THE PROVISIONS

OF THE

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 requires that individuals or organizations be provided with the
following information if they provide information on paper forms which are collected by the Federal
Government.
1. Public Law 92-205, enacted December 18, 1971 (amended by Public Law 94-490, Section 6(b),
October 15, 1976) requires that all non-federal weather modification activities in the United States and its
territories be reported to the Secretary of Commence. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration has implemented the Act and the current reporting requirements are published in the
Catalog of Federal Regulations (15 CFR 908).
2. The intent of the program is to increase expertise in the field of weather modification, to allow
scientists and other concerned persons to have access to information on current and past efforts at
weather modification, to help avoid unneeded and wasteful duplications, to aid in preventing territorial
overlapping of weather modification operations, to provide data to assess possible harmful or dangerous
activities, and to furnish information to check both desirable and undesirable atmospheric changes
against records of weather modification efforts. To meet this objective, information is collected on the
location and size of the target area, names and addresses of sponsors and operators, beginning and
ending dates of the project, specific purpose, description of apparatus and seeding agents to be used,
number of days of operations, number of hours of operations of each type of weather modification
apparatus, and total amount of seeding agent used.
3. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average .5 hours per response,
including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining
the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding
this burden estimate or any other aspect of this data collection, including suggestions for reducing this
burden, to Ms. Karen Williams, DOC/NOAA/OAR, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
4. Reporting of this information under PUBLIC Law 92-205, enacted December 18, 1971 (amended by
Public Law 94-490, Section 6(b), October 15, 1976) is mandatory.
5. Confidentiality is not a requirement for this reporting; no sensitive information is required.
6. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any
person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number.
August 1,1998
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