BOARD00073 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/2006
• Description: CF Section - En-Bloc Non-Reimbursable Investments Recommendations - Flood Section - CWCB - Weather Modification Permitting Program
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Enhancement Authority). In the past, water u~ers have requested CWCB assistance due to our role in .
state water planning. CWCB stafTwill monitqr and report on expenditures on cloud seeding by the .
CWCB, Lower Basin States, and local water ~sers over the next few years. There is potential that
additional CWCB and out-of-state funding might not further develop or enhance cloud seeding programs
and might only lead to a state subsidy and the historic total program costs and level of effort will remain
the same. If water user participation this wint~r starts to dry up, then the CWCB should adopt a policy to
match water users dollar for dollar up to their fair apportionment ofthe CWCB non-reimbursable
investment totals. If approved, the funding wiJI be used as non-reimbursable investments to water users
that participate in cloud seeding programs.

Staff Request
StafTrequests that the finance committee mem~ers acknowledge: 1) existing local support for cloud
seeding cost share grants; 2) recent multi-state collaboration through the Colorado River 7 Basin States
Negotiations; and, 3) the need to expand state funding for weather modification activities and studies.

Staff Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Board request that the General assembly authorize $150,000 from the
Construction Fund to be appropriated to the CWCB Weather Modification Permitting Program to be
used for non-reimbursable investments to assist water providers in the development of weather
modification activities.

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