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11. Seeding of storms will be performed through the use of approximately 13 to 15 manually operated ground based cloud nuclei generators, of the same type as used on the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project, located within and to the south and east of the Project Area. In previous use these generators have proven to be efficient and safe nuclei generators. The seeding solution will be 4 percent silver iodide 'and 1.25 percent sodium iodide in acetone. This solution when burned in a propane flame at a rate of 20 grams per hour per site will produce approximately 1016 effective nuclei in cloud systems with a 500 mb temperature around _20' C. At a bu1g rate of 140 grams per hour, this solution will produce approximately 10 effective nuclei in cloud systems with a 500 mb temperature around _15' C or slightly warmer. 12, A program of random decisions will be established with 4 seed decisions for every 1 no seed decision. Prior to each storm event with favor- able seeding wind conditions, a random decision for that event will be deter- mined. By incorporating this randomization operation into the Project, additional scientific and technological information should be learned from the Project and will be used to further refine operations in the future, will be available to public arid scientific groups, and hopefully will lead to advance- ments in technology, ' .. 13. An' analysis of low level wind fields, cloud characteristics, ~ability parameters, terrain features, and synoptic meteorological features will be made to determine the network of generators which will best seed the cloud systems over the project area for each situation and will provide a method for adjusting the network as new weather information becomes available. 14. Hith a "best" initial network to seed a situation established, the generator operators will be instructed to turn on their generators at a specified time and to run them at a specific burn rate. Incoming weather data into the Applicant's forecast office at Durango, Colorado, will allow continuous monitoring of changes in conditions and provide bases for making adjustments to or termination of seeding operations. 15, The anticipated increase in precipitation in the Project Area is between 3 and 5 percent above. natural precipitation. This may be compared to the expected precipitation increase ,of the Colorado River Bas~n Pilot Proj ect of 15 to 20 percent. ... . 16. To help assure the people that will be affected in and around the Project Area that there sha1l be adequate safeguards against any subsfantial damage, ,the Licensed Operator met with the group consisting of the Concerned Citizens for the Preservation of the Natural Resources, which is comprised of farmers, cattlemen, and others; Valley ,Growers, Inc., an ,organization of . approximately 300 farmers in the San. luis Valley with both pumps and surface' flow water rights; and the Rio Grande Cons'ervancy District, and proposed the', following additional seeding considerations, some of which would lead,to suspension of seeding operations under very unique weather or snowpack conditions: (1) Propose the suspending of seeding operations for periods when the average snowpack within the project area reaches 125% of Normal snowpack. The average snowpack will be calculated by averaging the actual S,C,S. snowpack readings for water content from three selected S.C,S. snow course sites within the project area; one from within each of the three seeded drainage basins (Conejos, Alamosa, and Rio Grande),., The Normal snowpack will be the average water content of the snowpack for the past fifteen (15) years of 'Tecord .for each ,.of :the three sel ected S. C.S. snow courses. (2) .Seedingoperationswillbe suspended during storm periods forecast to produce unusually heavy pre- d pi ta'ti1Jn .amaunt,..which"could. poss'ib ly. contribute "to the occurrences of avalanches or" severe -weather conditions within the project area. -.3..