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<br />. Tetra Tech has incorporated COE comments on Chapter 5 and it is back <br />to the COE. <br />. Chapter 7 is waiting for other portions of the EIS to come together before <br />completion. <br />. All of the appendices are on the FTP site and are essentially complete <br />except for the Conceptual Environmental Mitigation Plan and the EDAW <br />study. <br />. The EDAW study will be incorporated into the chapters where appropriate <br />and will be included as an appendix. <br />. Dave Geiger (Colorado State Parks) reminded the attendees that the <br />State Park's comments have not been submitted for any of the chapters. <br /> <br />4) Recreation Analysis <br />. Dave reported that the EDAW study has been put on hold until they can <br />get some issues resolved related to the new policy that came up requiring <br />that impacted structures have to be above the 1 a-year flood pool. No <br />progress has been made on the study recently. EDAW is working on <br />preliminary numbers on the cost of moving structures but they have not <br />spent a lot of time on this yet. There is a meeting this afternoon to try to <br />move all of this forward. <br />. The policy deals with inundation damage. Rick clarified that they want <br />equivalent structures to what is there now but under this new policy that <br />may not be possible. Existing structures are flooded as part of seasonal <br />fluctuations but under the new policy if they are moved the Corps will not <br />allow them to be in the flood zone. <br />. The BBC study is analyzing local and regional socioeconomic status and <br />user-experience in Chatfield State Park. If conditions change too much <br />after the reallocation the NPS could see it as too much of a modification of <br />Land and Water Conservation Fund grants and could halt progress. <br />. Brooke added that the State of Colorado has a liaison to the NPS to <br />coordinate these efforts. There is a lot of federal backing to protect these <br />concepts. The whole park is looked at for evaluating the impacton the <br />grants from theLand and Water Conservation Fund. <br />. Gary asked Eric about the status of Betty Peak's (COE) <br />recreation/economics study; Eric responded that she is on hold until the <br />facilities-relocation issue is resolved. <br /> <br />5) Public Involvement <br />. Eric wanted to reiterate that, despite the fact that a public relations firm <br />has been contracted, Tetra Tech is still in charge of handling meetings <br />and interaction during the public comment period. <br />. Brooke informed the attendees that Webb PR is under a 4 month contract <br />to help with public involvement. Haley McKean is the Webb PR <br />representative handling Chatfield. <br />. Haley passed out the draft of the handout they have created to distribute <br />to visitors at Chatfield. They have negotiated to print 40,000 copies at a <br /> <br />Tetra Tech <br /> <br />6 <br />