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8. OPERATICWIL PIAN A. General Dr. Iarry Davis and/or Ralph Papania, Jr., of Colorado International Corporation (CIC), applicants for license, will direct each day's operations. Routine weather forecasts will be obtained from GRD, Fort Collins, and fran scientists at Colorado State University (CSU). The forecasts will provide the basic inputs of temperature profiles, winds, cloud/precipitation patterns. CIC, along with scientists fran CSU, will prepare seedability analyses based on the forecast inputs and will ccrnpute ice crystal trajectory fallout patterns in order to detennine which AgI ground generators to activate and where to position the AgI seed- ing conducted by aircraft. Seedability criteria will be based on cloud. top tempera- tures wanner than about -230C and cloud depth greater than 2,000 feet, and proper wind speeds and direction sui table for targeting. Seeding rates will be adjusted to best fit the cloud. conditions for optimized ice crystal growth. B. Statement of the Nature and Objectives of Proposed Project The nature of the proposed project is to augment sneMfall in the rrountainous regions of the project area with the intent that increased sOClWpack will contribute to water supplies that receive runoff fran these rrountai=us regions. The operational teclmology and pro- cedures used in this project were derived fran previous research projects which were designed to test the cloud seeding procedures; specifically, the ground generator seeding procedures have been tested in the !\blf Creek Pass and Climax areas by Colorado State University, and in the Park Range and San Juan areas by the Bureau of Reclamation. The airborne seed- ing technology is derived fran past experinents in the Sierra Nevadas of CalifomiajNevada, Wasatchs of Utah, and certain adaptive techniques derived from experinents near lake Erie (Perm State University, NOAA), and in Israel. The objectives of the project are to increase sl1CMfall fran as many seedable cloud conditions as possible in an effort to increase the sOClWpack and the subsequent spring runoff in the tributaries fleMing fran the target area. It is anticipated that due to the drought conditions currently present, this increased sno.vpack will be beneficial to the municipal water supplies, agricultural water for irrigation, and other industrial and domestic uses. The SI1CM will also be of benefit to the recreational activities in this region.