ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

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SB 1432: prohibition; geoengineering

Sponsor: Senator Farnsworth, LD 10

Committee on Regulatory Oversight

Overview

Prohibits a person from intentionally injecting, releasing or dispensing any chemical, compound, substance or apparatus within Arizona's borders with the express purpose of solar radiation management.

History

Title 45, Chapter 9 (Weather Control and Cloud Modification) prohibits any person or public or private corporation, other than the federal or state government or their agencies, from conducting weather control or cloud modification operations or attempting to artificially produce rainfall without first obtaining a license from ADWR. An application for a license to conduct such operations must include all the information required by statute such as relevant names, addresses, scientific qualifications of all operating personnel and supervisors, areas to be served and dates of operations and evaluations that will be submitted.  An applicant must pay a $100 fee to submit an application, which deposits into the Water Resources Fund.   

Statute requires any person or corporation that seeks to manufacture, sell or lease, or offers to sell or lease any equipment or supplies for weather control or cloud modification, to first obtain a license. The license application must contain similar information as the operations application. The license fee is $10 and deposits into the Water Resources Fund.

Exceptions to the license requirements include the use and operation of equipment and supplies for agricultural purposes used by the owner, lessee or licensee of real property.

Current law classifies as a class 3 misdemeanor any violation of failing to obtain a proper license, knowingly making a false statement to obtain a license, knowingly failing to file the necessary evaluations or reports, continuing to operate after revocation of a license or violating any other provision of this law.

Provisions

1.   Stipulates that a person cannot intentionally inject, release or dispense by any means, any chemical or its compound, substance or apparatus within Arizona's borders with the express purpose of solar radiation management. (Sec. 1)

2.   Solar Radiation Management is defined to include the injection of stratospheric aerosols that increase atmospheric reflectivity or decrease the intensity of sunlight. (Sec. 1)

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