WMOD00319

• Title: North American Interstate Weather Modification Council - Fiscal Year 2009 Request
• Prepared By: McClintock Associates, Inc.
• Date: 1/1/2007
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: General Information

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Resolution No. 07-03
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dolores Water Conservancy District
February 8,2007

WHEREAS, the Dolores Water Conservancy District (District), Southwestern Water Conservation District,
San Juan Water Conservancy, and other southwestern Colorado water user groups fund wintertime ground
based cloud seeding programs to meet current and future water needs; and

WHEREAS, the Dolores Water Conservancy District could use state and federal funding assistance to
evaluate efficacy of weather modification operational programs by independent investigations into program
design and execution; and

WHEREAS, much of the West depends on water originating from snow, and the American
JvleleQ.mlogical Society (1998), World Meteorological Organization (2001), and the National Academy of
Sciences (2003) found that there is strong physical and statistical evidence that wintertime weather
modification can create additional snowpack in watersheds; and

WHEREAS, the 109th Congress introduced Senate Bill 517 and H.R. 2995 to develop a comprehensive
and coordinated national weather modification research program that could provide financial assistance to
private and public entities; and

WHEREAS, water users groups in California, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma,
and Kansas also have weather modification operational programs that also would benefit from applied
research assistance of their ongoing weather modification programs.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the District supports the reintroduction ofS. 517 and HR 2995
or similar bills into the 11 Oth Congress that will establish a coordinated national weather modification research
program providing that:

1. The Boards governing the newly established research program have adequate state government
representation; and

2. State governments work on behalf of the District and other local programs to leverage federal
n research __ nding for the ,valuation and r~finement of the_.weather modification. operational programs.

By:

Donald W. Schwindt
President, Board of Directors

Certification

I, James C. Fisher, Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Dolores Water Conservancy District do
hereby certify that the above resolution was adopted by the Board of Directors at a regular meeting held on
February 8, 2007, by a vote of7 to O.

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