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<br />8. Operational Plan (cont) <br /> <br />features, and synoptic meteorological features will determine the <br /> <br /> <br />network of gel)erators which will best seed the cloud systems over <br /> <br /> <br />the project area for each situation and will provide a method for <br /> <br /> <br />adjusting the net,...ork as new "'leather information becomes available. <br /> <br />With a "best" initial net,,'ork to seed a 'situation established, . <br />the generator operators are telephoned to turn on their generators <br />at a specified time and run them at a specific burn rate. On the <br />same call they will be given a specific turn-off time ..,hich could <br />be subjeC't to change by another phone call from the meteorologist <br />at l'estern l'eather Consultants, Inc. Incoming ..eather data into <br />the forecast office allows a continuous monitoring of any changes <br />in conditions and any necessnry adjustments or termination in the <br />seeding operation. There ..,ill also be liaison between the <br />meteorological control office and the program participants and <br />field maintenance tecllnicians located near the project areas as <br />to any developing conditions that may warrant a change in the <br />seeding operation. <br /> <br />d. Any expected effects ~n the environment resulting from the pro- <br /> <br /> <br />posed proiect and the methods of deten~iniilg and evaluating those <br /> <br /> <br />effects. <br /> <br />Based upon the results of other similiar wintertime programs that <br />have operated in C?lorado and our own experience, this project does <br />not involve any high degree of risk of substantial hal~ to the land, <br />people, safety, property, health or the envirorunent. <br /> <br />Based upon personal research findings and other research findings . <br /> <br /> <br />of programs operated to increase snowpacks from about 15 to 25 percent. <br /> <br /> <br />in the San Juan Mountains and other Colorado mountains during a <br /> <br /> <br />similiar three to four month period,' the additional water supply pro- <br /> <br /> <br />duced from the proposed program will have multiple agricultural, <br /> <br /> <br />domestic and industrial uses for those regions in <lnd dO\.J'nstream of <br /> <br /> <br />the ProJect Area. The anticipated ch.1nges in the precipitation amounts <br /> <br /> <br />in the project area would .fall within the natural annual variation of <br /> <br /> <br />precipitation expect possibly during a very hcav)r ",-,"inter snow season <br /> <br />-5- <br />