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September 21". Tom will represent the Chapters in ASFPM's District 4, which includes the states in . Federal Regions VII and VIlI. Tom joins Kevin Houck of the Flood Staff on the ASFPM Board, making Colorado one of only four states with two members on the Board (Indiana, New York, and Mississippi are the others). In separate news, both Tom and Kevin have been elected to fill officer positions in the Colorado Association of Stormwaler and Floodplain Managers (CASFM). Tom will serve as the Chair and Kevin will serve as the Vice-Chair for the organization for the coming year. Both Tom and Kevin are committed to further strengthening the strong reputation that both CASFM and the State of Colorado are nationally known for. Kevin Houck Selected to flU Flood Section EDgloeer Position: Kevin Houck was selected to fill the Engineer position for the Flood Protection Section. Announced Oct. 27, Kevin wi\1 fill the position formerly held by Tom Browning, who was promoted to Flood Protection Section Chieffollowing Larry Lang's retirement. Kevin, who formerly held the Community Assistance Program Coordinator position, started his new po$ition on Nov. I, and his duties include floodplain designation, program and project management, and technical assistance to communities for mapping and floodplain management. Statewide floodplain aDd Stormwater Criteria MaDual Update: The final meeting of the Steering Team for the Statewide Floodplain and Stormwater Criteria Manual (Manual) met on Oct. 26 to review and approve the final sections written for the Manual. The consultant, WRC Engineering, will incorporatecQmmet1ts.fromthat meeting and subsequent remarks made by members of the Steering Team into a draft deliverable for CWCB review. AntiCipated to be delivered during the flriit week of Deceinber, the CWCB staffwill have one last opportunity to comment before the final publishing of the Manual. . The Manual is anticipated to be formally delivered by the Christmas Holiday. Flood Section staff will . provide a presentation of the Manual during the January Board Meeting. Weather Modification Update: CWCB staffis the Vice-chair of the North American Interstate Weather Modification Council (NAIWMC). The NAIWMC met in September in Reno, NY with nine western states that participate. The newest member is Tom Ryan of the Metropolitan Water District of Southem California. MWDSC is a part of the 7-Basin States meetings on the Colorado River and has taken the lead in preparing white papers about increased weather modification and tamarisk removal in the Colorado River Basin. . Weather Modification (WM) White Paper is completed. CWCB staff, Reclamation staff, and Nevada's Arlen Huggins of the Desert Research Institute provided input to the Weather Modification White Paper. This paper is good background information to draft recommendations to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton. Staff may assist in the next phase that would quantifY current and future cloud seeding efforts and has offered to work with Reclamation to use SNODAS to calculate a conservative 7% (IO"A, is consistent in evaluation but 7% would account for infiltration and sublimation) increase for existing and proposed target areas to aide in decision making. Using the SNODAS I KM resolution snowpack data should be one ofthe better methods available. It is also believed that 7-Basin State's interest in WM may strengthen current efforts to get the two WM bills in Congress funded (S.S 17 and DR 2995) and a leadership role through USBRand or NOAA for research and evaluation of operations. The WM White Paper has been posted to the CWCB website for Board member and interested party review at http://cwcb.state.co.uslWeatherModificationIPermitProl!l1lm.htm . . RAMS modeling study Colorado State University has completed the fmal report for this study. Staff can present study findings at the request of the director's or board members. Highlights of the study were that near real time modeling provided timely input for operational cloud seeding 34