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<br />// <br />TO: Harris Shermar/'and Barbara Welles <br /> <br />DATE: March 31, 1978 <br /> <br />Notice of Intent to Conduct Cloud Seeding Overflights <br /> <br />Notice is hereby given that Colorado Internation Corporation of Delaware <br />of 2851 Valmont, P.O. Box 3007, Boulder, Colorado 80307, hereinafter referred <br />to as Applicant, has or is about to file with the Executive Director of the <br />Colorado Department of Natural Resources, an application for a permit to <br />conduct cloud seeding overflights within the state of Colorado and within the <br />areas hereinafter more specifically stated. The Applicant shall conduct such <br />overflights for and on behalf of the western Kansas groundwater district #1, <br />P.O. Box 604, Scott City, Kansas 67871. Mr. Ralph Papania, Jr., who holds <br />Colorado Weather Modification License Number 28 will be in control of the <br />cloud seeding project. <br /> <br />The primary target of the cloud seeding project is within the western <br />Kansas counties of Stanton, Hamilton, Greeley, Wallace, Wichita, Kearny, Grant, <br />Haskell County,Finney, Scott, Lane, Gray, Hodgeman, and Ford. In order to <br />carry out the cloud seeding operations in these Kansas counties, it is necessary <br />for the seeder aircraft under some circumstances to cross the Colorado state <br />boundary. <br /> <br />A permit is hereby sought for the seeder aircraft to overfly the <br />Colorado state boundary by approximately 20 miles along the eastern portion <br />of Baca, Prowers, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Kit Carson Counties. <br /> <br />The expected duration of the Kansas cloud seeding project and the <br />occasional Colorado overflights for which this permit is sought is April 20- <br />September IS, 1978. <br /> <br />There is no intent to modify the weather in Colorado. The intended affect <br />of the cloud seeding operation is to surprise hail and augment rainfall in <br />the western Kansas counties. The complete details of the operations to be <br />-conducted by the Applicant are available upon request from the Applicant, <br />or from the Executive Director of the'Department of Natural Resources, <br />1313 Sherman, Room 718, Denver,Colorado 80203. <br /> <br />A public hearing on the application for <br />overflights will be conducted at (\.,.~O Q.lll .on <br />C ,-1"'4 C 10"'9''<: X I It) -\ to., 9(,{ ,-n7.n"'\T..f' <br /> <br />\-0.:0<'> u"{ , (0\ i) <br /> <br />from Colorado International Corporation CCIC) of Delaware via Dictaphone <br /> <br />a permit to conduct <br />C ' '4, '1\) <br />'.\), j) \ - <br /> <br />the proposed <br />1978 at <br />