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-, ~ letter was not sent. Since then, the USBR has been working on a memorandum of understanding to be submitted to the USFS, but as of present, it has not gone anywhere. The Washington office is trying through correspondence ~o initiate a meeting between the , Commissioner and the Chief of the USFS. Bernard Silverman said that he felt that the USSR is in a catch 22 situation since the USBR cannot supply specific details on sites as requested by the USFS unless the USSR bypasses the requirement for disclosure procedures and public involvement. He asked whether the USFS will go for a memo of understanding or, in the end will they turn it down and require a Presidential Order. He did not receive a reply to this question from the USFS representative. Colorado River Augmentation Demonstration Program Activities While the CREST Program has not yet been funded, the USBR is continuing in a limited way activities under the program title, Colorado River Augmentation Demonstration Program (CRADP). This title has been retained in order to differentiate current activities from those proposed to be undertaken under the CREST Program. Silverman ~a;rl that O~ L~ adamant that the USBR cannot look like it is accomplishina the'purposes of CREST in some other way th~n T-hat whi~n ~MR~ has approved, i.e., full .fundina thrnlloh th~ RAsin funds. He said that, even so, there is a great reluctance by OMB to put general investigation money into the CRADP. Arlin Super, USBR, reported on the field activities that have been undertaken on the CRADPthis year, and that which will be unde~taken in the next fiscal year. He said that their work has been primarily of a research nature, whereas the CREST Program is designed to be purely an operational type of program. As such, the emphasis has been on improvements in their ability to recognize seedable situations, and to respond to seedable situations. In the former case, it has involved a field testing of the accuracy of detection of water content in clouds through the use of the microwave radiometer, and the feasibility of establishing remote control stations to detect liquid water content, and wind velocity and temperature, and finally, the monitoring of ice particles by both radar scans and two dimensional laser beam probes using aircraft. Research in responses to seedable situations involves the testing of the reliability of remote generators, studies in the transport mechanisms of the seeding element, and finally, determining conditions ,to make suitable generator sitings. C-29