WMOD00219

• Applicant: Colorado State University
• Project Name: Research in the Park Range Area in Colorado
• Date: 12/4/1979
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: License & Permits

WY 80-3

DECISION AND PERMIT-Page 4

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5. The Applicant shall consult with the U.S. Forest Service Rocky
Mountain Avalanche Forecast Center and inform the Colorado State Highway Patrol
(Denver Dispatch Office) when seeding is expected to produce a significant
increase in precipitation.

6. A representative of the Applicant designated by the weather
modification license holders directing this project shall he aboard all
flights performed by the research aircraft. Seeding will occur only in con-
junction with the research aircraft flights of the Queenaire or the Learjet.
Radio contact will be maintained between the research aircraft and the seeding
aircraft and from the research aircraft to ground control.

7. The Applicant shall submit reports on cloud seeding activity:

a. To the Executive Director, at least twice a month:

1. Copies of form WM3 indicating all generator and aircraft
seeding operations and a sumruary of the form specifically
addressed, in part, to the TERMS AND CONDITIONS of this
permit. The Executive Director shall forward said
reports to the State Weather Modification Advisory
Committee.

2. A copy of the daily Worksheet Decision Summary Notifi-
cation Form on which seed/no seed decisions are based
(and the form indicating the parameter data intormation
requested and utilized in making avalanche suspension
decisions) .

b. To at least two newspapers of the broadest circulation in
the project area weekly, the names of those newspapers to
be forwarded immediately to the Executive Director.

c. To the Colorado State Patrol and the Forest Service Avalanche
Forecast Center at least twice a month, summarizing the
project's activities and status.

8.
coordination

The Applicant shall
of this project with

strictly follow the m~n~mUm guidelines for
other State weather modification projects:

a. The Applicant shall communicate.weekly with the designated
representative of the Department of Natural Resources on
all aspects of the cloud seeding operations, including
location, time, and rate. Such notice may be communicated
by telephone and confirmed in the reports referred to in
Paragraph 7 Supra.

b. The Applicant shall also communicate with any other operator
authorized to modify the weather in the State during the
designated time period when wind directions are such that
it is anticipated research seeding might affect other
operations or that seeding for another weather modification
operation might be expected to affect results of the research
project. Said communications can be made by telephone bun
shall be confirmed in writing.

c. The Applicant shall obtain current information about cloud
seeding programs in neighboring states that might affect
results of this program.

d. Indiscriminate seeding activities or overseeding may be
grounds for revocation of this permit.

e. Any disputes or conflicts regarding this operation with
other operations within or outside Colorado shall be
presented to the Executive Director for ~esolution.