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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: The Legislature is not being presented with anything this <br />year. because our report is not due until September. Based upon that <br />report. if it is favorable. then we will have some real facts and figures <br />to go before the Legislature for. future funding. There is some skepti- <br />cism in the Legislature. The money that we expended this year was under <br />the drought program. If it had not been for the drought. we wouldn't <br />have had these funds at all. We are spending a million dollars. and <br />practically all of those funds were drought funds. <br /> <br />MR. JACKSON: Question. Larry. will we not have a program then in 1979. <br />late '78 and '79? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: There are some attempts being made to give us some money <br />for '78 and '79. But we did not request any. We simply need a year to <br />evaluate the program. Under the guidelines that the Legislature imposed. <br />7 percent on Our overall budget. we couldn't ask for funds anyway. As <br />a matter of fact. normal operating expenses consume our 7 percent. just <br />inflation. and then some. <br /> <br />MR. ROBERT FISCHER: <br />for the corning year. <br /> <br />Larry. you say that you could use about $250.000 <br />DO you look at that as being the total? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: I am ,looking at that as being the state's part. If that <br />is available. it wi.ll be on a matching basis. We would expend state <br />funds equal to that again. So we're talking about. perhaps. around <br />$400.000 if we get some state funds. <br /> <br />MR. ROBERT FISCHER: Do you see any federal funds available for this? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: Yes. I would think we could get some federal funds. <br /> <br />MR. ROBERT FISCHER: Last question--is it too late to get the Legis- <br />lature to appropriate $250.000? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: It's not too late until the last day. They say around <br />April 30. <br /> <br />MR. ROBERT FISCHER: Are you aware of any reason why they can't do it? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: No reason at all. The Legislature can do whatever it <br />damned well pleases. and usually does. (Laughter.) <br /> <br />MR. ROBERT FISCHER: That is. the only question I have. I would just <br />like to make a comment. though. For a good long while. I have watched <br />the weather modification process. twenty or twenty-five years. through- <br />out the country. The research shows how best to do it and what time. <br />and then make an attempt to try to determine if what you are actually <br />attempting to accomplish has been going on for all these years. I am <br />sure all of you are aware that the conditions of one particular area in <br />the state of Colorado are different than the conditions in another 'area. <br />and so forth. So it is going to be, in my opinion, very difficult for <br />this one-y~ar program to corne up with any conclusive evidence of any- <br />thing. really. It seems to me th?t it would really be detrimental for <br />the state of Colorado to drop this at this. time. We have set up this <br /> <br />-31- <br />