WMOD00240

• Applicant: Western Kansas Groundwater Management
• Project Name: Cloud Seeding
• Date: 5/1/1989
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Application

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l\PPLICATlO:-.! FOR PERHI.T FOR
WEATHER MOIJIFICATlON ACTlVI1'lES

(Wlder Colorado Weather' Modification Act of 1972) ,

(Use additional sheets if necessary; maintain reference to the application paragraphs.)
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1. Applicant: Western Kansas Groundwater Management District # 1

2. Domicile of applicant:

PO Box 604, Scott City, Kansas 67871

3. Principal Colorado address of applicant:

4. Dusiness address of applicant:

Same as above

5. Licensed person in control:
The person or persons holding a valid weather modification license (under 151-1-10,
CRS 1963, as amended) who will be in field control of the project or activities for
which a permit is requested are: Curtis Smith

G. Time period during which the proposed operation shall continue:
-=-lI.ay, 1, -1'189,. through September IS, 1989.
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7. Name and address of applicant or other person on whose behalf the operation is to
be conducted.

8. Operational Plan:
Attached to this application is an operational plan, prepared by the licensee(s)
above, which contains each of the following elements:

a. A statement of the nature and ?bjectives of the proposed project.

b. A map of the proposed operating area specifying the primary target area and
the ~rea reasonably expected to be affected. (Map should be reproducible.)

c. ' Deseription of how the project will be implemented and carried out.
location, weather data available, types of aircraft, seeding devices
material, seeding rates, etc.)

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d.' Any expected effects upon the environment re~ultin!J from the proposed project
and the methods of determining and evaluating those effects.

e. Any additional information which may be required to describe the operation
and the proposed method of its evaluati~n.

9. Factors indicating that the proposed weather modification project is conceived to
provide and offers promise of providing an economic benefit to the area in which
the'operation will be conducted (applicable only to commercial projects):
The purpose of this permit 'application is to authorize over flight of cloud seed1ng
aircraft which are targeting the western Kansas counties shown on OPs,plan, 1-'1g. 1
-The benefits of hail suppression and rain augmentation apply to those pr1mary target
'counties in Kansas. Since the adjoining Colorado counties are not 1n the pr1mary
area we do not 'envision them acctuing any'benefits or disbenefits from the program.