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Weather Modification
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North American Interstate Weather Modification Council - Fiscal Year 2009 Request
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McClintock Associates, Inc.
Date
1/1/2007
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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />North American Interstate Weather Modification Council <br />www.nalwmc.org <br /> <br />In Support of Passage ofS.1807 and H.R. 3445 in the 1l0th U.S. Congress <br /> <br />. The NAIWMC is a Council often state-level representatives that collectively are spending over $15M!Year on <br />weather modification operations that include snowpack augmentation, rainfall augmentation, and hail <br />suppreSSIOn. <br /> <br />. A federally-sponsored weather modification research program is needed, as recommended by a 2003 National <br />Research Council report entitled Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research and is supported by states <br />that need a scientific means of evaluating current programs and increasing their effectiveness through applied <br />research. <br /> <br />. Recent droughts have produced low lake levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead and have led the Seven Colorado <br />River Basin States to create cooperative agreements. A separate cooperative agreement is in place for wintertime <br />cloud seeding in the states of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming to pursue water augmentation to benefit the entire <br />Colorado River System. <br /> <br />. Past and recent evaluations of the potential for snowpack augmentation by cloud seeding in the Colorado River <br />Basin indicate a significant yield in runoff can be attained through properly designed projects. A 2006 U.S. <br />Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) evaluation indicates the potential for 800,000 additional acre feet of water. <br /> <br />. Federal agencies have obligations to assist the Colorado River Basin states and all western states in managing <br />water supplies. Weather modification operations and regulations reside within state and local governments and <br />the federal role should be assistance with applied research and practical technology transfer programs. <br /> <br />. Droughts in the United States result in an average economic loss of $6-8 billion per year, while severe hail <br />producing storms result in up to $2.3 billion damage to crops and over $2 billion in property loss annually. Rain <br />enhancement and hail suppression weather modification projects help mitigate these losses, and additional <br />research in these areas will make existing programs even more effective and permit them to better quantify their <br />impacts. <br /> <br />. The impacts of global warming and inadvertent weather modification on clouds and precipitation are not well <br />understood. Recent weather modification research has provided evidence that air pollution is negatively affecting <br />precipitation processes in cloud systems. Research into inadvertent and intentional weather modification will <br />increase our understanding of these potentially disastrous impacts. <br /> <br />. The passage of S. 1807 in the Senate and H.R. 3445 in the House is key to the establishment of weather <br />modification policy and to the funding of weather modification research. These bills have the support of the <br />Family Farm Alliance, the Western States Water Council, the Weather Modification Association, and a myriad <br />of local interests including: ground water management districts, water conservancy districts, water and sanitation <br />districts, agricultural interests, municipal and county governments. <br /> <br />. The recent USBR Weather Damage Modification Program (WDMP) used a successful model for combining <br />local, state, and federal resources in providing a means for scientific evaluation of operational cloud seeding <br />projects (rainfall and snowfall enhancement and hail suppression) in North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, <br />Utah, Nevada and California. We support this cooperative federal-state research model and urge passage of this <br />legislation in the 11 oth Congress. <br /> <br />Current NAIWMC membership includes state agencies in <br />North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California and Idaho <br />
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