Program Administration
FY24 Cloud Seeding Budget
Table 1. Idaho Water Resource Board’s approved cloud seeding resolution for Fiscal Year 2024 (**Items that will require an additional Board resolution to authorize expenditure of funds)
Statutory Authorities
- 22-3201: Requires any person, persons, association, or firm to register with the Department of Agriculture (DOA)
- 22-3202: Requires that a log of all weather modification activities be filed with DOA
- 22-4301: Allows for the formation of weather modification districts
- 22-4302: Allows for weather modification districts to create and administer funds
- 42-605 (13): Provides that water users within a district may authorize, by resolution, for the water master to develop, coordinate or provide, for weather modification projects
- 42-1805 (10): Authorizes the Director of IDWR to develop, coordinated and provide for Weather Modification projects
- 42-1805 (11): Authorizes the Director to develop and implement plan for gathering data on weather modification projects the department is involved with
- 42-4301: Creates Chapter 43 on Cloud Seeding. Directs the IWRB to continue analysis of operations, assess statewide opportunities, and authorize cloud seeding programs in Idaho. Provides authority to sponsor or develop local or statewide cloud seeding projects.
- 46-1015: Requires that the Office of Emergency Management be appraised of weather conditions and climatic activities; gives authority to direct “officer or agency empowered to issue permits for weather modification” to suspend issuance of permits
Legislation
Idaho House Bill 266:
Directed the Idaho Water Resource Board (IWRB) to:
- Continue analysis of exiting cloud seeding projects
- Complete an assessment of opportunities for cloud seeding in other basins
- Authorize cloud seeding programs in Idaho
Provides the IWRB authority to:
- Sponsor or develop local or statewide cloud seeding programs
- State funds may only be used in basins where the IWRB finds that existing water supplies are insufficient to support existing water rights, water quality, recreation, or fish and wildlife
Establishes that:
- Water supply that results from cloud seeding shall be distributed in accordance with the prior appropriation doctrine.
Idaho Water Resource Board Resolutions
- 24-2024RESOLUTIONFY2025Budget
- 20-2023RESOLUTIONFY2024 SecondaryAquiferBudget
- 28-2023RESOLUTIONCloudSeeding BudgetAuthorizations
- 43-2023RESOLUTIONCloudSeedingCostShare
- 20-2022ResolutionFY23Budget
- 15-2021 Resolution FY2022 Aquifer Stabilization Budget
- 27-2021 Resolution Cloud Seeding Bear River Basin
- 32-2021 Resolution Cloud Seeding
- 42-2021 Resolution Cloud Seeding Funding
- 05-20222-Resolution-Lemhi-Basin-Settlement-Agreement
- 18-2022ResolutionCloudSeedingAuthorizations
- 09-2020 Resolution FY2021 Budget
- 20-2020 Resolution Cloud Seeding
- 03-2021 Resolution Cloud Seeding
- 7-2019 Resolution for 2020 Secondary Aquifer Fund Budget
- 19-2019 Cooperative Cloud Seeding Program
- 19-2018 A budget Resolution in the Matter of Statewide Water Sustainability and Aquifer Stabilization Fund Fiscal Year 2019 Budget
- 20170502resolution 2018 fiscal year budget
- 9-17 Resolution to Approve Funds for the Cooperative Cloud Seeding Program
- IWRB Resolution 3-16 – FY 2017 Budget