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" (...) After years of lobbying centered in her home state of Texas, Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison proposed in March 2005 that a federal board be formed to draft weather modification policies and devise ways to carry them out.

When the bill cleared the Senate science committee, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy raised concerns: It might rob one region's rain to feed another, could fuel global warming suspicions, might violate treaties.

John Marburger, director of the technology office, assured Hutchison that the White House would study the need for a new board. But freighted by two decades of scorn, supporters say, the effort fell apart. (...)"
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...n-hurricane-atmospheric-administration/2