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000924 center with real-time data analysis and display,. and a communications system. Maintaining, updatillg, and expanding ~hese items for a regu- lar operational program might cost an additional $200,000 annually, Annual operating costs, mostly teclmical and scientific salaries, and overhead expenses should be about $350,000, Included in the operating costs would be a continuing analysis of the cloud seeding and the results produced. Monitoring and continuing evaluation of the possible effects on ecological regimes might cost an additional $50,000 per year, The total estimated annual cost of a full-scale winter cloud seeding operation in the high elevation target areas is $2, 650, 000, Annual generator system $ 400,000 1,400,000 300,000 200,000 350,000 500.00. ,I. -, Seeding materials Generator servicing Other facilities maintenance Operating costs Ecological monitoring Total annual cost $2,650,000 " .' The unit cost of producing 1, 870, 000 acre-feet of new water by cloud seeding is thus about $1. 50 per acre-foot, Estimated costs shown above are probably on the high side, representing perhaps the upper limit for operational costs, Careful project design, once more is known could reduce unit costs to as low as $1. 00 per acre-foot. 27 :i~::~~';~.}0};r~~~"'~:;I;'~ tj,~;f.;":'.:'f:.''!r-:/.~:<<f/ii ~~li~~t!{~~~~~-, 1,~~i~~~t~~~~'::}~~;'~6i:~1?-~~:t~j$%I~'~~if:~~~~1;~~~~;!.~~:1:~;;t;?i~~?;~~;;"~'~~~:'~r:r&;~\,?"~~ "".R-::'"~jf.'"~~~.., ~J;::";f,';'-<i" ::.%;.:;:.,;-:;,~ ~.." .~~~ "~'... ~~:?f.~j:~ -. .~. . ;:;0; :'Y.'''''';.... "k--"; !"<";:"'~-':.:~f::..r".... ~itt~(~(.''(.~ <' ~ '.,~::;~~:~'." ~,,-K- ~~,_.\~ :~;)~...::i;i~%)~:-ji:':-:;h~~5.;.,:~~'~~~J:l~.: ,.l\~{~J't~ttf(..-:::~~~~f!~~1/~' {;Jf.;(h>:t\- ~~1 I - 1f.~~ r~~:::N~ ~:~fti~ fr'-:''''k~ ~~tr~ rt