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. Question from Rick McLoud (Centennial Water and Sanitation) to Eric: We are going to Washington DC soon-is there anything we can do? Eric answered that he cannot tell the Cooperators what to do but it doesn't hurt to ask officials in Washington to add Chatfield to the budget. Eric is working on the process to raise the amount of the money available for the 50/50 cost share. . Eric said he still plans on finishing this project in 2009. Tetra Tech's contract is fully funded however, there may be some State/COE funding issues to work out in the near future . Eric wrapped up by informing attendees that new management at the COE in Omaha has been hired and employees are being transferred into new rolls. Eric is not sure what will happen with his roll as the project manager for the Chatfield FR/EIS but he hopes that he will stay for the duration of the project. 3a) Water Quality Analysis and Contract Modification Status . Eric said that the Water Quality Study proposal that Tetra Tech put together has been accepted by the COE and Tetra Tech should be receiving a letter of acceptance soon. The approximately $26,000 budget for the study does not count against the $40,000 left in the budget for Federal fiscal year 2008. The study schedule will be based on when the Tetra Tech water-quality modelers are available. . Eric added that the study is a way to respond to concerns raised by the Chatfield Watershed Authority and others. Tetra Tech will use the model they have created and rerun it with less conservative parameters to try to capture a broader range of potential impacts. 3b) Environmental Mitigation Plan . Mary Powell (ERO Resources) informed attendees that they are making well thought out and deliberate progress. There have been two subcommittee meetings since the last meeting with the entire group. She feels like there has been a good buy-in from all parties involved on the three defined resources: birds, Preble's, and wetlands. They have worked on assigning functional values on impacts for the Preble's and are now moving on to birds. The birds are tougher because of the nature of the habitats for birds. They are not going to go offsite for shore and water habitats because if the reservoir is expanded then that habitat should be expanded inside the park. The next meeting will be focused on nailing down the bird functional values. They are working on tying in the COE certification requirements and the incremental costs analysis at the meetings as well. . Mary could not say exactly when they will be done. Her sense is that once they get through the very detailed issues that they should be able to move more quickly through some of the more upper-level decisions. . Mary added that they will continue to rely on Eric's guidance to determine when to work on the very detailed decisions versus outlining them to get Tetra Tech 3