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. e study basins, the report concluded: liOn only 1 percent of the Williams Forks Lakes catchment is the delay in seasonal melting likely to be of more than 7 days, while only 3 percent of the E1 Dorado Lake Basin would be similarly affected." [12, p. 179J Snow~ack me1tout dates must be monitored during an operational cloud seedln~ program 1n cooperation with resource management agencies to determ1ne if delay causes significant and adverse effects to the enVlronment and related human activitles. This objective can be accomplished by informal observation and reporting networks in addition to formal monitoring techniques. The Project Skywater FES st~tes: II In research stud i es aimed at ident i- fying avalanche triggering effects, the effect of relatively small incremental increases in snowfall have been masked by the more pronounced influences of wind, temperature, rate of snowfall, etc." [2, p. 3-30] A 1977 analysis by Howell states: liThe relation between snowpack augmentation and avalanche hazard is greatly complicated by other factors affecting the release of avalanches and affecting the prediction, warning, and application of countermeasures that mitigate this hazard. In chutes where they seldom run, avalanches occur under rare conditions of recognizably high avalanche danger, when cloud seeding would be suspended under accepted proce- dures. In areas of high avalanche frequency, such as many chutes in the Red Mountain Pass area of the San Juan Mountains, many avalanches run during nearly every major storm, and successful forecast and warning procedures have been developed, at least partially under the spur of prospective precipita- tion management. The occurrence of delayed avalanches, after the storm has passed, is related partly to the augmented part of the snow load and mostly to features of snow strati- graphy and metamorphosis not affected by precipitation management. To the extent that precipitation management focuses attention on avalanche warnings and countermeasures, it will tend to reduce, not increase the hazard." [13, pp. 494-495J ~ater and Power will continue its cooperative work with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Coloraao, and the Forest Service to improve understandina and forecastin or avalanche events. Ava ancne condit10ns are inc uded 1n the suspension criterld tor w1nter orograpnic cloud seeaing projects, and will be included in suspension cr1terla tor thlS proJect. Potential increases in flooding must be considered and dvoided in the design of a cloud seeding program. MOdels will be developed to assess the interaction of snowpack levels, runoff levels, and flooding events. A review of the historical ~ecord and model calculations will provide information needed to set cutoff leveis for cloud seeding wnen the snowpack reacnes a certain "percent of normal" (average). Project susoension criteria wil I be effective automatically when the cutoff - 1 ~ ...oJ