COMMITTEES ON INTERIOR AND INSUAL AFFAIRS AND AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY 3 note /EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 5 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR RESEARCH INTO AND DEMONSTRATION S. 222 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION AND S. 798 TO A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 14, 15, 16, 19, AND APRIL 5, 1951 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, ) COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY CLYDE R. HOEY, North Carolina GEORGE D. AIKEN, Vermont EDWARD J. THYE, Minnesota BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, Iowa C. M. MOUSER, Chief Clerk HUBERT H. HUMPHREY II SUBCOMMITTEE ON S. 798 CLINTON P. ANDERSON, Chairman JAMES P. KEM CONTENTS Barnes, Carlton P., research coordinator, Agricultural Research Ad- ministration, United States Department of Agriculture, Wash- Bennett, N. B., Jr., Assistant Director of Project Planning, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.- Brown, A. A., Chief, Division of Forest Fire Research, United States Bush, Vannevar, president, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Chapman, Oscar L., Secretary of the Interior, United States Depart- Davies, Howard, president, Industrial Processes Co., Philadelphia, Eardley, Carl, attorney, Claims Division, Department of Justice_ Fox, Benjamin, superintendent, engineering and design, shipbuilding 78 Houghton, Henry G., professor of meteorology and head of department of meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Howell, Wallace E., research meteorologist, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass Ingvalson, E. L., editor, Daily Journal, Rapid City, S. Dak__ Krick, Irving P., director of the American Institute of Aerological Research and president of the Water Resources Development Corp., Lineweaver, Goodrich W., Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Recla- Marshall, Harry, Marshall Flying Service, Rapid City, S. Dak_ McKinney, Robert, chairman, New Mexico Economic Development McKinnon, Clinton D., Representative in Congress from the Twenty- Neuberger, Hans H., professor of meteorology and chief, division of Searles, Richard D., president, Salt River Valley Water Users' Asso- Sherwood, Thomas K., dean of engineering, Massachusetts Institute 235 Straus, Michael W., Commissioner of Reclamation, United States 93 Suits, C. G., vice president and director of research, General Electric 48 Vonnegut, Bernard, scientist, General Electric Research Laboratory, Warne, William E., Assistant Secretary of the Interior, United States 83 61 EXHIBITS Page Acta Chemica Scandinavica 4 (1950), reprint from, The Phase Diagram 337 Reprint from volume 31, No. 9, November 1950, on the Results of Recent Experiments in the Artificial Production of Precipitation... Reprint from volume 32, No. 2, February 1951, An Appraisal of Cloud 158 Reprint from volume 32, No. 2, February 1951, Effect of Sunlight on the Action of Silver-Iodide Particles as Sublimation Nuclei.. Army Department, report on S. 5, S. 222, S. 798__. Artificial Precipitation, Research Needs in, N. B. Bennett, Jr. Budget Bureau: Official report on S. 5, S. 222, S. 798. Official report on S. 1300, Eighty-first Congress- California Legislature, 1951 regular session, not enacted: Assembly bill No. 101.. Assembly bill No. 2706_ Senate bill No. 986.. Senate bill No. 388- 34 109 108 32 174 314 348 350 350 351 Senate bill No. 617_ 351 Cloud Seeding as a Means of Increasing Precipitation, reprinted from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, volume 32, No. 2, Cloud Seeding Operations, Some Evaluations of Sustained, by I. P. Krick Statement by the Secretary on S. 1300, Eighty-first Congress_ 114 116 Project Cirrus (Press Branch fact sheet), July 19, 1950_ 40 112 Encino water research group, statement re S. 5.- 212 Exhibits, list of printed material supplied by the Weather Bureau for 45 Figures submitted by I. P. Krick and T. B. Smith; Rainfall R Page Figures submitted by Wallace E. Howell: No. 1, Precipitation gaging stations.. 319 No. 16, Percent of normal precipitation during test period smoothed 320 No. 18, Estimate percent of normal precipitation without seeding 322 General Accounting Office, official report on S. 5, S. 222, and S. 798. General Electric research laboratory, visit to... 273 Glare Research Institute, "We Don't Have to Change Genesis Story"; 205 Griscom-Russell Co., reclamation of sea water. 231 Holy, William E., Division of Sanitation, Public Health Service, Federal 116 Report on S. 1300, Eighty-first Congress, July 7, 1949, and April 12, 311, 313 Report on proposed amendments to S. 1300, Eighty-first Congress___ 316 191 Justice Department, amendatory langauge for section 5 of S. 5.- 228 112 Lineweaver, Goodrich W., Chairman, Indepartmental Committee to con- sider legislation under S. 1300, Eighty-first Congress: Agriculture Department, statement.. State Department, excerpt from letter May 8, 1950. Defense Department, statement by Dr. Helmut E. Landsberg, Di- rector, on Geophysics and Geography, Research and Development Public Health Service, Division of Sanitation, Federal Security Agency- Community Facilities Service, General Services Administration - Mayence Research Associates, M. B. Somerfield, director, post-office box Mechanical Equipment Co., Inc., J. E. Pottharst, Jr., 861 Carondelet, New Orleans 13, La., statement re possibility of increasing potable water 187 Moon-Beam Catalytic Research Laboratory, statement re S. 5. National Weather Improvement Association, Harvey L. Harris, president, National Weather Improvement Association, Senator Anderson's letter to 222 H. A. Henson, 1000 Crescent Avenue NW., Atlanta, Ga_-_ John M. Hill, College of Engineering, the University of Wyoming, Capt. Frank Luckel, USN (retired) member of assembly, Seventy- 217 217 |