Weather Modification Management Act of 1980

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Weather Modification Management Act of 1979 - Establishes, within the Department of Commerce, a National Weather Modification Management Program for the purpose of understanding, developing, improving, and managing weather modification technologies. Requires such program to include: (1) basic and applied research to understand the atmospheric processes related to weather modification; (2) research on unintentional weather modification that results from society's use of land, water, and energy; (3) experimental activities designed to test the findings of these research efforts and to demonstrate the feasibility of new operational methods; (4) technical and financial assistance; (5) investigation of the economic, environmental, legal, and societal effects from weather modification; (6) operating practices that will serve as standards for all Federal weather modification activities and as guidelines for private and other non-Federal weather modification activities; (7) a system for licensing all individuals having responsibility to design or perform any weather modification activity; (8) a procedure for reporting all weather modification activities; and (9) a five-year plan for the ma…