WMOD00147

• Applicant: Western Kansas Groundwater Management
• Project Name: Cloud Seeding
• Date: 4/22/1985
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Application

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FORM WM2(',
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'. APPLICATION FOR PERMIT FOR .
WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES

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(Use additional"sheets if necessary; maintain reference to the application paragraphs,)

1. Applicant: Wp!=it-prn Krln~.=lC:: rzrnllnrh.7.=l+-or Manaqement District # 1

2. . Domicile o'f applicant: Box 604, Scott City, Kansas 67871

3. Principal Colorado address of applicant:

4. Business address of applicant:

Same as above

5. Licensed person :l.n control:
The person or persons holding a valid weather modification license (under 151-1-10,
.CRS 1963, as amended) who will be in field control of the project or activities for
which a permit is requested are: To be determined

6., Time period during which the proposed operatio~ shall continue:
April' 15, 1985 through September 15, 1985

7. Name and address of applicant or other person on whose behalf the operation is to
be conduc.ted.

8. Operational Plan:
Attached to this application is an operational plan, prepared by the licensee(s)
above, which contains each of the following elements:

a. A statement of the nature and objectives of the proposed project.

b. A map of the proposed operating area specifying the primary target area and
the area reasonably expected to be affected. (Map should be reproducible.)

c. . Description of how the project will be implemented and carried out.
location, weather data available, types of aircraft, seeding devices
material, seeding rates, etc.)

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d. Any expected effects upon the environment resulting from the proposed project
and the methods of determining and evaluating those effects.

e. Any additional information which may be required to describe the operation
and the proposed method of its evaluation.

9. 'Factors indicating that the proposed weather modification proj ect is conceived to
provide and offers promise of providing an economic benefit to the area in which
the operation will be conducted (applicable only to commercial projects):
The purpose of this permit ctpplication is to authorize over flight of cloud seeding
aircraft which are tarqetinq the l.~western Kansas counties shown on Ops Plan, Fig. 1.-
The benefits of hail suppression and rain augmentation apply to those primary target
counties in Kansas. Since. the adjoining Colorado Gounties are not in the primary
area we do not. envision them) accruing any benefits or disbenefits' from the,program.