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3) Status of Preliminary Draft FRlEIS . Gary Drendel (Tetra Tech) reminded the attendees that Chapters 1, 2, and 3, as well as all tables and maps, are now posted on the FTP. If anyone is missing anything let Gary know. . Chapter 4 is still receiving some updates related to the topographic issues and it should be out by the end of next week. The chapter will go to Eric and then be rolled out to Cooperators. . Tetra Tech received comments back late last week from Gene Sturm (CO E) on Chapter 5. Chuck Hillerson (Tetra Tech) is addressing the comments now. Gary thinks that this Chapter will be available for the Corps' review in a couple of weeks. . The summary conclusions on Chapter 7 will roll out as soon as possible- it is a fairly brief chapter. This will go to the Corps and then the Cooperators. . March 31 was decided on as the deadline to have Tetra Tech give Chapters 4 and 5 to the COE for review. Eric said that the COE will have them reviewed in one week and should have comments back to Tetra Tech by mid-April. Pending the Corps' review, the 3rd week of April is the goal for Tetra Tech to have Chapters 4 and 5 out to Cooperators. Rick said that the Cooperators will plan on having review comments on these chapters back to the COE by mid-May. . Comments on all Chapters need to be wrapped into a preliminary document by the end of May so that the Independent Technical Review (ITR) team can review it. From there it will go to the AFB. . The end of March is the target for the Mitigation Plan to be ready for review. Tom Ryon (Otter Tail Environmental) and Steve Dougherty (ERO Resources) agreed that the Plan could be ready in this timeframe. . Dave added that the quicker Chapters 4 and 5 get out to Cooperators for review the quicker the State can comment on all the chapters-he warned that it will be a tight turnaround for his agency. . Tom B. asked Gary about the status of the appendices. Gary said all but the Conceptual Mitigation Plan are basically complete. Eric suggested that all the completed appendices could be put on the FTP site so the Cooperators can look at them (there is not a formal review process for the appendices). Gary indicated that Tetra Tech will post all of the appendices to the FTP site. Tom B. will send an email around when those get posted. He reminded the attendees that these are not public information yet and the FTP site is password protected for security reasons. 4) Environmental Mitigation . A draft of the Environmental Mitigation Plan has been reviewed by Gary and comments given back to Tom R. The datum shift has delayed the schedule a bit but now that issue is mostly resolved. The updated data Tetra Tech 3