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<br />6. There are no known risks of substantial harm to any of the <br />following: land, water, people, health, safety, property or the <br />environment. Over the years this subject has been examined in other <br />parts of the USA and the world. No adverse effeots from cloud <br />seeding have been detected. <br /> <br />7. The safeguards used by us to prevent substantial harm to the <br />applicable items described in this question are as found in the <br />included copy of our Operations Plan for 1995, Seotion 6, and in <br />the Final Report for 1995, Section III; GENERAL OPERATIONS. <br /> <br />8. RIA <br /> <br />9. Economic benefits to target area residents are covered in our <br />response to Questions 2 and 3. Economic benefits accruing to the <br />residents of Colorado would be expected to b" in the form of <br />increased cross-border business and shopping in and around arQ& <br />towns such as Lamar and Holly. If we are successful in reducing <br />hail significantly in storms aa they reach the state line, some <br />farms and towns in Colorado nearest the state line may share in the <br />inadvertent economic benefits resulting from less crop and property <br />damaging hail. . <br /> <br />10. None of the following applies to Colorado since there is no <br />portion of the target area within the cont'ines of the State. <br />However, this is how the project is expected to affect Kansas: <br /> <br />(a) Precipitation patterns won't change---that's a function of <br />natural weather and the randomness of storm movements within each <br />s&aaon. Simply put, natural droughts beget seasons with relatively <br />fewer than "normal" number of clouds capable of producing uaeful <br />precipi tation and naturally ....e.t aeasons beget relatively llIOre <br />clouds. Physically, it's impossible to Beed all clouds capable of <br />producing precipitation; also, storms llIove in all directions, <br />although the preference is generally to .8 direction easterly of a <br />North-South line. Hence, any effects from cloud seeding to increase <br />rainfall depends both on the natural variability of storm numbers <br />within in each season and the daily variability of storm movements. <br />Daily storm movements include examining both speed and direction <br />parameters just as it does under naturally occurring conditions, <br />That 1s, heavy accumulations of rainfall causing excessive erosion <br />can result from some non-severe storms which are stationary or very <br />slow-moving as well as from faster moving severe storms. . <br /> <br />(b) Regarding increased runoff and erosion effects: FirBt,' <br />prec1pi tation increases expected from relatively smaller cloud <br />systems intentionally seeded to stimulate rainfall will produce <br />erosive impacts .no different from any other naturally occurrin~ <br />non-severe thunderstorm. <br /> <br />(0) It's axiomatic that the highest rainfall rates which cause <br />the worst erosion and crop-damaging hail generally are produced by <br />severe storms exhibiting the highest radar intensities. Storm cores <br />exhibiting very high radar intensity causing excessive rainfall, <br />