15 U.S.C. § 330c — Authority of Secretary

(a) Information; reports and records; inspection; availability of data from any Federal agency as limitation of authority. The Secretary may get information from anyone whose activities involve weather modification -- through rules, subpoenas, or other means -- in the form of testimony, books, records, or other writings. The Secretary can require these people to keep and hand over reports and records, and can inspect their books, records, other writings, premises, and property, whenever the Secretary considers it necessary to carry out this chapter. But the Secretary cannot use this power to get information for which adequate, authoritative data are already available from another federal agency. (b) Noncompliance; application of Attorney General; jurisdiction; orders; contempts. If someone is stubborn about, or refuses to obey, a subpoena served under this section, the U.S. district court where that person is found, lives, or does business -- after the Attorney General applies to the court -- has jurisdiction to order the person to appear and testify, produce documents, or both. If the person still doesn't obey the court's order, the court can punish that failure as contempt.