Finance Committee Meeting 2012

• Board Meeting Date: 9/26/2012
• Description: Finance Sub-Comittee Meeting September 26, 2012
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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John W.Hickenlooper
TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board Members Governor
FROM: Joe Busto Mike King
DNR Executive Director
Watershed Protection and Flood Mitigation Section
Jennifer L.Gimbel
CWCB Director
DATE: September 14, 2012
SUBJECT: Non-Reimbursable Investment Item#2
Weather Modification Water User Cost Share Assistance
Introduction and Discussion
The CWCB has administered weather modification grants since 2004. This amount has been set
at $175,000 for the last four years. In 2007, the CWCB signed formal agreements with water
users in downstream states of Arizona,Nevada, and California to provide additional grants and
• technical assistance. The funding has been approximately $1M CWCB and $1M from three of
the downstream states for the last six years. The cost share break down is approximately 60%
local funds with 20% from the CWCB and 20% from the downstream states. This has been a
successful and popular CWCB program that has deployed new cloud seeding equipment for both
cloud seeding and evaluations and has lengthened the time that programs operate each year.
Based on review by the CWCB Director and Staff Section Chiefs,the recommended funding
level for this request was left at$175,000.
Staff Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Board request the General Assembly to authorize $175,000 from the
Construction Fund to be appropriated to the Department of Natural Resources for allocation to
the CWCB Board for grants and technical assistance to water users and their fiscal agents for
locally sponsored wintertime weather modification programs.
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