---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 330b"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "330b"
heading: "Duties of Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/330b"
units:
  - "Chapter 9A — Weather Modification Activities or Attempts; Reporting Requirement"
---

# §330b. Duties of Secretary

- (a) **Records, maintenance; summaries, publication—** The [Secretary](/usc/15/330.md?p=1) shall maintain a record of [weather modification](/usc/15/330.md?p=3) activities, including attempts, which take place in the [United States](/usc/15/330.md?p=4) and shall publish summaries thereof from time to time as he determines.
- (b) **Public availability of reports, documents, and other information—** All reports, documents, and other information received by the [Secretary](/usc/15/330.md?p=1) under the provisions of this chapter shall be made available to the public to the fullest practicable extent.
- (c) **Disclosure of confidential information; prohibition; exceptions—** In carrying out the provisions of this section, the [Secretary](/usc/15/330.md?p=1) shall not disclose any information referred to in [section 1905 of title 18](/usc/18/1905.md) and is otherwise unavailable to the public, except that such information shall be disclosed—
  - (1) to other Federal Government departments, agencies, and officials for official use upon request;
  - (2) in any judicial proceeding under court order formulated to preserve the confidentiality of such information without impairing the proceeding; and
  - (3) to the public if necessary to protect their health and safety.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–205, § 3, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 736.)