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3. The sponsor of the proposed project is the said District. The proposed project will be managed by the District through its Western Kansas Weather Modification Program ("Program"). 4. The person proposed to be in charge of the project for the District is Curtis D. Smith, Program Manager, who holds a valid Colorado weather modification license for calendar year 1995. 5. The permit application review fee of$100.00 has been paid by check No. 5060 dated February 12, 1996. 6. Proof of fmancial responsibility has been provided by the applicant by means of a Certificate ofInsurance dated March 21, 1996, which evidences that the applicant is covered by single limit injury and property damage liability insurance in the amount of$l million through Reliance Insurance Company ofIlIinois, which operates under United Pacific in Colorado. 7. Fourteen counties in the State of Kansas have entered into an agreement with the applicant to jointly finance the weather modification operations in 1996 to increase rainfall and reduce crop-damaging hail. Participation in the Program is voluntary on a county by county basis. Since the inception of the Program in 1975, 16 different Kansas counties have participated in the Program for various reasons at one time or another, and 6 counties have participated continuously. 8. The applicant has requested a 60-mile wide fly-over area in Colorado. In 1995, a 35- statute mile wide area was allowed. 9. Colorado's Weather Modification Act of 1972 ("the Act"), at S 36-20-112(1)(d), CRS, does not specifically address special requirements for interstate weather modification permits.. However, the State of Kansas is in support of the project, has issued a permit for the project, and does not prohibit. weather modifications operations to be carried on in Kansas for the benefit of Colorado or its inhabitants. [ 936-20-118, CRS] 10. Legal notice of intent to modify weather was published on March 14 and March 21, 1996 in the official newspapers of Kit Carson and Baca Counties, on March 15 and March 22 in the official newspapers of Kiowa and Prowers Counties, and on March 21 and March 28 in the official newspaper of Cheyenne County. [s 36-20-112(l)(e), CRS] . 1 L A public hearing on the application attended by over 47 people was held beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 1996, and ending at 5:00 p.m. in the Community Building at Lamar, Colorado. . 12. The Baca, Prowers, Kiowa, and Cheyenne County commissioners in the proposed fly- over area in Colorado have asserted that the Western Kansas Weather Modification 5