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Western Colorado Congress, Westem Slope Environmental Resource Council, The Wilderness Society, and Trout Unlimited ("Environmental Parties"). Counsel for Interior and for the Environmental Parties agreed to confer before the hearing to try to resolve Interior's potential objection. If the objection has not been resolved, the Board will be asked to make a determination as to the admission of this exhibit at the time of the hearing. 5. Acceptance of Exhibits. With the exception of the document referred to in subparagraph B.4., above, the Hearing Officer recommends that the Board accept into the hearing record all of the exhibits identified in the CWCB Staff's and Parties' prehearing statements. If further exhibits are identified in the Parties' and Staff's rebuttal statements, the Hearing Officer will make a recommendation regarding their acceptance into the record at the time of the hearing. 6. Rebuttal Statements. The Parties may submit rebuttal statements by close of business on Friday, October 17. 7. Potential Stipulations. The Parties and CWCB Staff will continue to confer with one another in an attempt to narrow and perhaps even eliminate the contested issues prior to the hearing. The Hearing Officer set a deadline of Friday, November 7, for the submission to the Board's office and the Hearing Officer of written stipulations proposed to resolve the contested issues between the CWCB Staff and one or mare of the Parties. If appropriate, the Hearing Officer may issue an amended prehearing order based on any such stipulations received by close of business on November 7. This deadline is only for the submission of written stipulations to the Hearing Officer prior to the hearing, and is not intended to stop the Parties and Staff from continuing their efforts to reach agreement up to the date of the hearing, if necessary. C. Hearing Agenda The Hearing Officer recommends the following hearing agenda to the Board. It is expected that throughout the hearing, the Chairman will call breaks as appropriate. It is possible that the hearing may continue while the Board members eat their lunch and/or dinner; if this happens, arrangements will be made far the other hearing participants to obtain and eat their meals as well. With the exception of the "Public comments" session, which will occur as close as possible to the scheduled time, this proposed schedule may vary slightly at the Board's discretion to provide for breaks and to accommodate reasonable changes in circumstances. 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Introductory matters, procedural questions, Board approval of hearing agenda and determination of any outstanding procedural matters 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. Presentation of ISF recommendation by CWCB Staff (1 hour). 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Presentation by U.S. Department of the Interior (1 hour). 3