WMOD00122

• Contract/Permit #: #96-5
• Applicant: Southern Colorado Farms
• Project Name: Southern Colorado Farms
• Date: 1/1/1996
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Proof of Public Notice

PROOF OF PUBLICA nON

STATE OF COLORADO
County of Chaffee

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And further affiant saith

puaLlC NonCE
NOTICE OF INTENT TO
MODIFY WEATHER
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SOUTH-
ERN COLORADO FARMS. I~. of 55 North
Torres St., P.O. Box 416. Cenler, Colorado
81125. hereinafter referred-to. as 'Applicant",
has or Is about to file wllh the Executive
Director 01 the Colorado Department of
Natural Resources an application for a permit
. to conduct weather modification operations
within the Stele of Colorado and within the
areas hereinafter more specifically stated.
_ TJ:l~ AppJ!c,!!,!1 ~hall 90{ldu.cCsucb operations _
tor and on behalf of itself. '
The name of the person who shall be in .
control of the weather modification program
Is Michael John Eggers. of 55 North Torres
St, P.O. Box 416. Center, C081125
The primary target area ot the operations
for which the weather modification permit is
sought is described a3 follows:
Township 41 N R~e 7 ENMPM A portion of
Sections 4, 25 and 36 Township 41 Range 9
ENMPM
A portion of Sections 3 & 10
The general area beyonc;l. th.~ Prime.ry ,
Target Area which may reasonably be
expected to be affected by the weather modi. "
fication operations for which a -Permit is -
sought includes a portion of:
Township 41 N Ranges 7 & 9 ENMPM
The expected duration of the weather.
modificaUon operations for which a Permit Is '
sought Is from the Issuance of" the permit to
September 15, 1996 for the lirst year and
thereafter June 15 thru September 15.
The intended effect 6f the weather modifi.
cation operations Is to reduce the incidences
of hail in the primary targel area and to
lnduce"precipitation In a non-solid slate.
Complete details of the operations to be
conducted by the Applicant are available on
request from the applicant. Souttlern
Colorado Farms, Inc., 55 North Torres St.,
P.O. Box 416, Center, CO 61125 or from the
Executive. Director of the Department of
Natural Resources, Centennial Building, -
Suite 718,1313 Sherman Street, Denver, CO
80203.
A public - hearin"g on the application for a
permit to conduct the proposed weather
modification operations shall be held at 1:00 .
o'clock P.M. on June 24, 1996 at the District
Court Room of the Saguache County Court
House at Saguache, Colorado 81149
SOUTHERr-L COLORADO FARMS, INC,
Published in The MountaJn Mail June 13, and'
20, 1996.

I. MERLE J, BARANCZYK
Being first duly sworn according to law. on oath depose and say. that I
am. and at all the times herein mentioned. was the publisher

01 the Mountain Mail and that said Mountain Maills a dally newspaper of
general circulation. in said County and State. printed and published in the
City of Salida. County of Chaffee and State of Colorado. and that copies
of each number thereof are. and at ail the times herein mentioned were.
regularly distributed and delivered. by carrier or mail. to each of the
subscribers said newspaper. in accordance with the customary method
of business in newspaper"offices, " " - . .

That the annexed Notice of Intent to MediN Weather

In the maller of John B. Smith

is a true copy of the original. and that the same was regularly pUblished
once each week. and on the same day in each week. and in the
newspaper proper and not in a supplement. for the

full period of Two (2) Insertions
of said newspaper. and that the first publication thereof was

in the issue dated

JUNE 13. 1996

and that the last publication of the same was in the issue

dated

JUNE 20. 1996

That the said Mountain Mall has been established. printed and published
for the full period of fifty-two consecutive weeks. and continuously and
uninterruptedly prior to the said date of the first publication of the notice
aforesaid. in the City of Sallda. County of Chaffee and State of
Colorado. and is a newspaper duly qualified for tha publishing of said
notice wihtin the meaning of an Act of the General Assembly of the State
of Colorado. approved May 3Olh.1923. and entitled 'An act to Amend an
Act Entitled 'An Act Concerning Legal Notices, Advertisements and
Publications and the Fees of Printers and Publishers thereof. and to
Repeal ail Acts and Parts of Acts in Conflict with the Provisions of this
Act... and within the meaning of an Act amendator:l thereof. approved
May 18th. 1931 and entitied'An Act to Amend Section 4. of Chapter 139.
Session Laws 'of Colorado, 1923. relating to Legal Notices and
Advertisements: and within the meaning of any and ail other Acts
amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

The above certificate of pUblication was bscribed an om to before
me by the above nlimed Merle J, Baranczyk who Is ersonaily known
to me to be the identical person described In the above certificate.
on the..,20th..d8'J oLJune....,. A.~96....... _

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My Commission Emires Oct. 111,1900