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<br />18 <br /> <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br /> <br />opinion on any expected effects upon the environment result- <br /> <br />ing from the proposed project and, if there are any effects, <br /> <br />how you would -- what method you would use to determine those <br /> <br />effects and evaluate those effects, if you will please? <br /> <br />A Essentially, this was part of the long-term <br /> <br />6 research objective of ,the pilot project. At that time they <br /> <br />1 had an extensive ecological study. They -- referring to the <br /> <br />8 Bureau of Reclamation -- funded an extensive ecological study <br /> <br />9 that paralleled the seeding efforts in this region. An <br /> <br />10 evaluation of that data indicated no adverse effects to the <br /> <br />11 environment or ecology. <br /> <br />12 Consequently, since this program is operated very <br /> <br /> <br />13 similar to the design of the pilot project, with the exceptio <br /> <br /> <br />14 that it has a lower cut-off limit for the suspension of seed- <br /> <br /> <br />IS ing -- the cut-off level for the pilot project was 150% <br /> <br />16 average snowpa~k'; and, as I mentioned before, the suspension <br /> <br />17 level for this program is 125% -- that I would expect no <br /> <br />18 adverse effects to result from this program the way that it <br /> <br />19 is proposed. <br />20 The evaluation of the program, as I mentioned, <br /> <br />21 will be conducted or accomplished after several years of data <br /> <br />22 have been completed or collected on the program~ <br /> <br />23 <br /> <br />Q <br /> <br />Mr. Hjermstad, you're aware, are you not, of some <br /> <br />24 of the general objections to cloud seeding programs that have <br /> <br />2S been raised in the news media in the San Juan basin in the <br />