Board Meeting 01/14/1985

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1985
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

a. It must be designed and conducted to develop and test
the technology and confirm and evaluate its effects. ~

b. It must include a means to mitigate and compensate for
the economic. social. and environmental impacts of the
test on Colorado.

c. The Bureau and State of Colorado must negotiate a
satisfactory program for state review and approval of
s~ecific cloud seeding plans based on standards and
conditions similar to those imposed on private cloud
seeders. The conditions include provisions for
emergency cessation orders.

d. The water attributable to augmentation from CREST
should be treated as part of the natural water supply
of the Colorado River System for determining whether
compact delivery obligations are satisfied.

e. Colorado River Storage Project revenues should not be
used to pay for the CREST program. The enclosed motion
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board addresses one
of the reasons for this position. Furthermore. Section
202 of PUblic Law 90-537 states that the augmentation
of the water supply of the COlorado River is a national
obligation. Under the circumstances. funding for CREST
should come from congressional appropriations or the .
Reclamation Fund. as proposed by the Upper Colorado
River Commission.

In response to the Chairman's request for Board action. Mr.
Vandemoer moved. seconded by Mr. Smith. that the Board maintain
its position as expressed in a motion adopted at the July 13. '
1984. meeting as follows:'

a. It supports the CREST program so long as it is
conducted as a demonstration program whose Objectives
are: (a) to advance the understanding of the
technology of winter cloud seeding as a potential means
of augmenting the flows of the ColoradO River pursuant
to the Obligations of the federal government under the
Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968. and (b) to
develop the information needed to confirm that snowfall
and runoff is increased and to assess the social and
economic impacts of cloud seeding. and

b. It is opposed to the use of CRSP power revenues to pay
for any portion of the proposed CREST program until the
originally intended benefits of the CRSP power revenue
system. and a level of development of Colorado's water
resources equivalent to that contemplated by currently
authorized. but unconstructed. participating projects.
are realized. Motion adopted unanimOUSly. .

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