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Vail Associates and Beaver Creek Associates will be hereinafter re erred to as the"Project <br /> Sponsors. This permit is limited by and subject to the following terms and conditions. <br /> 1. The State of Colorado (State), Department of Natural Resources (DNR), and the Colorado <br /> 'dater Conservation Board(CWCB)reserve the right to revoke,suspend or investigate weather <br /> modification operations at any or all generator sites named in this Permit for any reason. <br /> 2. The State, DNR, and CWCB reserve the right to reopen and amend this permit to address any <br /> unforeseen concerns or issues related to operations related to the Vail/Beaver Crock Weather <br /> modification permit. <br /> 3. The Permit Holder and Project Sponsors release the State, DNR, and CWCB of all liability <br /> related to all cloud seeding operations. Adequate safeguards am provided in this Permit to help <br /> permit holders to operate within the natural variability of the local climate. Operations should <br /> only augment snowpack to nm nornud levels in order to protect health, safety,and welfare of <br /> the environment and Colorado's citizenry. <br /> 4. The target areas shall be the Vail Ski Area and the Beaver Creek Ski Area. The Permit holder <br /> It approved for up to twenty five generator;for this Permit. <br /> 5. Any Subsequent major changes to the number and location of generators shall require the prior <br /> written approval by the CWCB. <br /> 6. The Permit Holder is required to attend and present information on its cloud seeding operations <br /> at any of the CWC!B Board meetings if requested by the CWCB Hiroetor and/or CWCB Staff. <br /> 7. The Permit Holder and P ject Sponsors may not change the Operational Plan, develop <br /> agreements with out-of-state water agencies, or receive out-of-state water agency funding <br /> without prior written approval from the CWCB. <br /> 8. Cloud siding operations must be carried out in conformity with the Operational Flan, except <br /> for those operations that are modified by the terms and conditions in this Permit. This Permit is <br /> also subject to state statutes and authorities for weather modification in Colorado 3 -20-101 <br /> through 36-20-127 C.R.S. A new Operational Plan must be submitted to the CWCB prior to <br /> seeding each year. <br /> 9. The permitted project is a commercial operation and the Permit Bolder will pay a 2% <br /> commercial fee to the CWCB,which is 2%of the base contract bets the Permit Holder and <br /> the Project Sponsors for each yew of operations. <br /> 10. Wintertime cloud seeding in the Colorado River Basin is .now being supported through the <br /> Colorado Water Conservation Board and water users in Nevada,California, Arizona, and New <br /> Mexico pursuant to Colorado River Seven Basin States water augmentation initiative. In order <br /> to receive funding the Permit Holder must comply with the provisions in the base agreement <br /> and annual amendments between the Six Agency Committee, the Central Arizona Water <br /> 2 <br />