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<br />I <br /> <br />MR. SCHLEUSENER: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />1539 <br /> <br />people in northeastern Colorado to determine <br />whether or not they were getting in some <br />areas too much moisture and in others too <br />little moisture as a result of artificial <br />weather modification. As far as determining <br />the amount of moisture and precipitation in <br />any area, that does properly fall under the <br />jurisdiction of this Board." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman; may I comment on that <br />particular point? As I mentioned before, we <br />became involved in this at the request of <br />the people from northeastern Colorado. When <br />they first approached us back in April, they <br />had just finished raising $65,000. The pri- <br />mary question on their minds at the time <br />was 'Are we, or are we not, doing any good?'. <br />This was the particular problem posed to us <br />at the time. We did not, in this first con- <br />sideration, spell out in detail the problems <br />we realized did, and must, exist in this <br />type of a program so far as precipitation <br />increase or decrease is concerned, although <br />we were well aware and pointed out to them, <br />that this too is certainly a problem and <br />probably is one that the people in that area <br />and over the State will eventually have to <br />fight out amongst themselves as to \^lhether <br />or not a hail suppression effect, if it <br />does exist, is worth a precipitation decrease <br />if that is, in fact, the relation. <br /> <br />So I might say that this first proposal <br />that was submitted to the Board emphasized <br />the hail suppression evaluation primarily <br />because of the emphasis on that question at <br />the time that proposal was submitted." <br /> <br />"I'd like to ask a question about what <br />the U. S..Weather Bureau has been doing <br />about this type of problem? I recall a <br />few years ago, and the Governor will re- <br />call, that Mr. Krick or Dr. Krick was cloud <br />seeding in the spring and he cloud seeded, <br />unfortunately, the day a major league ex- <br />hibition game was being played in Denver <br />at which time we had one of our largest <br />spring snows. Mr. Carberry suggested that <br />we sue Dr. Krick and I called the Governor's <br />office in Washington at the time, and we <br />found that as far as they were concerned at <br /> <br />'-./ <br />