WMOD00186

• Applicant: Western Weather Consultants
• Project Name: Durango N & S Sectors
• Date: 11/1/1977
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Contract

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34-04-00
CONTR^CT ROUTING NUMBER

$505,260

CONTRACT

THIS CONTRACT, made this 1st day of November 1971, by and between the
State of Colorado for the use and benefit of the Department of"' Natural Resources
(Colorado Water Conservation Board)
hereinafter referred to as the State, and'2 We~tp.rn Weather C:onsultants t Tnc. r
P 0 Rox l)R J Onrango t C:01orado 81301
hereinafter referred to as the contractor,

WHEREAS, authority exists in the Law and Funds have been budgeted, appropriated and otherwise made
available and a sufficient unencumbered balance thereof remains available for payment in Fund Number 1001 ,
G/L Account Number 5 033 7 . Contract Encumbrance Number ; and

WHEREAS, required approval, clearance and coordination has been accomplished from and with appropriate
agencies; and

WHEREAS, "pursuant to House Bill No. 1722, 52nd General Assembly,
duly enacted into law, there was appropriated to the Colorado Water
Conservation Board the sum of $350,000 to conduct and evaluate a
weather modification program during the winter of 1977-1978, with the
provision that the appropriated amount could not be expended unless
an additional amount equal to at least one-half of the appropriated
amount was provided from other sources; and

WHEREAS, the United States Bureau of Reclamation has allocated
to the Colorado Water Conservation Board the sum of $600,000 from
federal funds to assist in carrying on a weather modification program
as a drought relief measure; and

WHEREAS, the Contractor'is an experienced weather modification
firm and has the equipment and personnel necessary to carry on a
weather modification program and has made a proposal to the State to
conduct a weather modification program in a portion of the State of
Colorado during the period November 1, 1977, through April 30, 1978,
a copy of which proposal dated October 6, 1977 is attached hereto and
incorporated by reference as a part of this contract;

NOW THEREFORE, it is hereby agreed that:

1G The objective of the program is to increase the snowpack in
a portion of the mountain areas of the State of Colorado, which portion
is generally described as those mountain areas of the State lying south
of an east-west line extending from Rifle to Littleton, but more par-
ticularly described in the proposal attached hereto and made a part of
this contract.

2. The Contractor shall conduct cloud seeding operations through
the employment of not less than eighty (80) manually operated ground
based cloud nuclei generators.

3. The Contractor shall maintain a weather forecast and operation
center at Durango, Colorado, and will monitor on a continuous basis
the weather patterns over Colorado and the western United States during
the period November 1, 1977 through April 30, 1978, for the purpose of
determiDing if particular weather events are suitable for precipitation
augmentation by cloud seeding in accordance with the operational criteria
stated in paragraphs C and D of the attached proposal. In addition to
providing for the control of the weather modification activities to be
carried on by the Contractor', the Contractor shall also provide weather
information and direction for the weather modification activities to
be carried on in the northern sector of the State by Colorado Inter-
national Corporation. Pursuant to this responsibility, it shall be
the function of the Contractor to establish appropriate communication
and liaison with Colorado International Corporation to the end that
completely unified and coordinated weather modification activities can
be carried on as a joint responsibility of the Contractor and Colorado
International Corporation. '

4. The Contractor shall at all times during the performance of

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