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<br />McAuliffe: If you want to do everything, we have to be talking with the Joint Budget Committee <br />about why Parks can do it better than a consultant, you will have to convince others they can do <br />it cheaper and faster. <br /> <br />Shane Madson: Is the Corps aware of our time constraints? <br /> <br />McAuliffe: Yes. Ifwe know mitigation is 5,000 Acres of wetlands, consultant will have to find <br />5,000 that aren't already protected. Then you will have a final EIS before the award. <br /> <br />Rick McCloud: Right now we are back somewhere here in the timeline, we don't have the <br />preliminary DEIS, and we are hoping for right in here before the DEIS, having the plan <br />formulation, mitigation concept plan formulation, this is where we are hoping Steve Doherty will <br />help us. So we as water users are part of a constructive process. How to satisfy the regs but do <br />this. This is his specialty we are asking for. Could well not need the same thing on Recreation. <br />Back in this formulation stage is seeing if we can keep the price down as low as possible. <br /> <br />(?): After Draft EIS is public participation, then is final, then the ROD. Lots of steps between <br />this. <br /> <br />McAuliffe: judging 2008 costs, you should be aware of that. <br /> <br />Rick McCloud: I wasn't thinking past there, I am trying to get to the DEIS. <br /> <br />(?) Your costs go through 20008, <br /> <br />McAuliffe: It depends on what you want this person to be doing. <br /> <br />McCloud: He could be _?_ us through public part. <br /> <br />McAuliffe: Once we have the authorization, the money is "us"... our money is your money, <br />essentially. Once we know these costs of implementation, what is the firm dollar plan, if you <br />don't do it this way, then you start after you get the ROD, and you are far out in the future. <br /> <br />McCloud: It may be years before you get water to use. This is not 2010, we talked about the <br />time for building, it's quite a span in here, I see the co-facilitators who gets us to the ROD at a <br />minimum and perhaps to the end of the whole doggone thing. It's somebody who is watching, <br />there is never a stop work order or watching for modifications, keeps pushing in all the different <br />places so it really all happens in a timely. <br /> <br />McAuliffe: Keep this in mind as you plan this process. <br /> <br />Kent Wiley(?): Who picks the consultants? <br /> <br />McAuliffe: It's a consultant picking team, with an odd number to break ties, one from our <br />office, rest would be you guys. <br /> <br />This document represents the personal staff notes of Susan Maul and are not to be considered a formal record of <br />this meeting. <br /> <br />4 <br />