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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Principal Engineer
Colorado Springs Utilities

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Modification Program (WDMP) implemented a successful model for combining local, state, and
federal resource in providing a means for scientific evaluation of operational cloud seeding
projects (rainfall and snowfall enhancement and hail suppression) in North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. We support this cooperative federal-state
research model.

Passage ofH.R. 3445 and its Senate companion S. 1807 in the 1 10th Congress will be key
to the establislunent of a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy
and to the funding of weather modification research through a program. It is our understanding
that the North American Interstate Weather Modification Council (NAIWMC) supports this bill.
The NAIWMC is a Council often state level representatives that collectively in their states are
spending over $15 million each year on weather modification operations that include snow pack
augmentation, rainfall augmentation, and hail suppression. In addition to the NAIWMC, this
legislation has the support of the Family Fann Alliance, the Western States Water Council, the
Weather Modification Association, and a myriad of local interests including: ground water
management districts, water conservation districts, water and sanitation districts, agricultural
interests, and municipal and county governments. I respectfully request that you continue to help
move this important legislation forward. Please do not hesitate to contact me at [phone]
should you have any questions.

I thank you in ance for your consideration of this request.

cc: Members of the House Science and Technology Committee
Mr. Joe Busto, CWCB