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

# §330c. Authority of Secretary

- (a) **Information; reports and records; inspection; availability of data from any Federal agency as limitation of authority—** The [Secretary](/usc/15/330.md?p=1) may obtain from any [person](/usc/15/330.md?p=2) whose activities relate to [weather modification](/usc/15/330.md?p=3) by rule, subpena, or otherwise such information in the form of testimony, books, records, or other writings, may require the keeping and furnishing of such reports and records, and may make such inspection of the books, records, and other writings and premises and property of any [person](/usc/15/330.md?p=2) as may be deemed necessary or appropriate by him to carry out the provisions of this chapter, but this authority shall not be exercised to obtain any information with respect to which adequate and authoritative data are available from any Federal agency.
- (b) **Noncompliance; application of Attorney General; jurisdiction; orders; contempts—** In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpena served upon any [person](/usc/15/330.md?p=2) pursuant to this section, the district court of the [United States](/usc/15/330.md?p=4) for any district in which such [person](/usc/15/330.md?p=2) is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the Attorney General, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such [person](/usc/15/330.md?p=2) to appear and give testimony or to appear and produce documents, or both; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–205, § 4, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 736.)