Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 42 > Chapter 43 - Cloud Seeding

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• cloud seeding: means all acts undertaken to artificially distribute or create nuclei in cloud masses for the purposes of inducing precipitation, cloud forms, or other meteorological parameters. See Idaho Code 42-4301
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114