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U III ;) ~ ~ General Manager's Report 1999 May 21st through June 16th--Update Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise-Report Storage Study CommitteelWater and Storage Needs Assessment- Work continues toward the development of the "preferred storage option(s) plan." Following the May 20th Storage Study Committee meeting we sent out meeting minutes and a list of following-up items (see attached). As provided for in our MOU with Colorado Springs Utilities, Black & Veatch and Montgomery Watson have begun the technical and NEPA review of the proposed storage options. This process includes meetings with each of the potential state and federal regulatory agencies that may have jurisdiction over the development of all or a portion of the storage alternatives. We have already met with the USBR and the Corps of Engineers. Enterprise staff is participating in all these meetings. Findings from this NEPAltechnical review will be presented to the SSC early this fall. We have not yet received a response from the Bureau regarding our proposed work plan for their involvement in the Water and Storage Needs Assessment Project-SSC. We sent them a letter April 12, 1999 (see attached). They have promised a response as soon as possible. A Financing Sub-committee is being formed to help determine the options for funding the elements of the preferred storage options plan. Neva Treiber and Anne Nicholas will co-chair this subcommittee work. Neva and I will meet with Ann June 15th to establish specific objectives for this work. Update: Neva and I met with Ann Nichols and established an objective for the work of the Finance Subcommittee. Our objective is to have the subcommittee evaluate funding altematives for the development of the elements of the preferred storage option(s) plan (PSOP). These altematives may include an integrated or joint financing plan that may require the larger, direct beneficiaries of the PSOP to fund the major portions of the project(s). A funding plan will be presented to the Enterprise Board at the same time the PSOP is presented. We'll begin the process Iw sending SSC entities a questionnaire regarding their financial means and commitment to funding the storage elements of the PSOP. Ann and Neva will co-chair this subcommittee.