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<br />,; <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />WEATHER MODIFICATION RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY <br />TRANSFER ACT OF 2005 (S. 517) <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD . <br />SALIDA, COLORADO <br />MAY 24, 2005 <br /> <br />RESOL UTION <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the 109th Congress is considering Senate Bill 517 that authorizes $100 million in <br />Federal expenditures from Federal Fiscal years 2005 - 2014 to enhance federal support for weather <br />modification, promote research and development, and provide financial assistance to private and public <br />entities; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the State of Colorado recognizes the benefits derived from weather modification <br />throug}! state statutes and programs; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, The Weather Modification Association and the North American Interstate <br />Weather Modification Council support a "coordinated national program" to further the science, <br />understanding, and utility of weather modification; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) has statewide representation <br />through: representatives from the eight major river basins in Colorado, the City and County of Denver, <br />the Executive Director of Natural Resources, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Director of the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Director of the Division of Wildlife, the State Engineer, and <br />the Attorney General ofthe Colorado Department of Law; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the CWCB mission is to conserve, develop, protect and manage Colorado's water <br />for present and future generations; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the CWCB has recently issued seven weather modification permits sponsored by <br />local water users for wintertime ground based weather modification for snow augmentation in the <br />South Platte, Arkansas, Colorado, Gunnison, San Miguel, and San Juan River Basins; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, eighty percent of the freshwater within Colorado's state boundaries originate from <br />snow and the American Meteorological Society (1998), World Meteorological Organization (2001), <br />and the National Academy of Sciences Report (2003) all endorse statements that there is strong <br />physical and statistical evidence that wintertime weather modification creates additional snowpack in <br />watersheds; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Colorado Senate Bill 05-084, the "CWCB Water Projects Bill", provides $60,000 <br />in funding to local water users through the weather modification cost share program; and <br />