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<br />D R AFT <br /> <br />technology. Colorado State University is conducting a program funded <br />by a National Science Foundation grant and supplemental funds from <br />the Bureau of Reclamaton; the Bureau of Reclamation is assisting Utah <br />State University in a state-sponsored research project; and the large <br />Sierra Cooperative Pilot Project in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of <br />California and Nevada, sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation and <br />other cooperating participants. <br /> <br />Planning <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />The results of the Colorado River Pilot Project indicated tile need <br />for further verification and improvement in technology before a large <br />augmentation program could be undertaken. The Secretary of the Interior <br />requested that a program be planned for weather modification in the <br />basin and in May 1975 the initial planning paper "Demonstrating Water <br />Augmentation in the Colorado River Basin and Adjoining Basins by <br />Weather Modification" was first proposed. This paper outlined a <br />lO-.Year demonstration seeding program in five of the six mountain <br />ranges costing about $36 million with a final report by 1994. The <br />program concept included cooperation between local-state and Federal <br />interests, an operational seeding orientation with embedded research <br />experiments, emphasis on hydrologic evaluation, accompanying environ- <br />mental monitoring and impact studies, and a phased start of seeding <br />in different ranges. <br /> <br />24 <br />