Transcript Meeting the Future Together The Garfield County Cumulative

Meeting the Future Together
Update on The Garfield
County
“Socio-Economic”
Impacts Study
Energy Advisory Board
April 7, 2005
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Garfield County IS:
Progress Overview
• Process is moving forward quickly
• Good response to request for volunteers on IS committees
(Land Issues and Solutions Committee, Economic &
Population Technical Committee)
• Industry Data Committee will form next week with discussion
at West Slope COGA
• First Committee meetings have been scheduled
• Draft initial scopes of work (SOW) have been prepared for
discussion at Committee meetings
• Initial sets of potential contractors have been developed
• RFPs are scheduled to be distributed May 9 with final
contracts awarded by June 30
• Land Issues & Solutions Study should be complete before end
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of 2005
Recap of the EAB Role
(first presented at March 15 EAB meeting)
• The Garfield County Energy Advisory Board
will play a significant role in the by:
– Reviewing the overall design of and plan for the IS
– Reviewing the Scope of Work for each IS study
– Reviewing the list of consultants to whom the
RFPs will be sent
– Reviewing the proposals that come back from the
bidders
– Reviewing model outputs
– Receiving regular updates and tracking progress
– Reviewing the final products of the IS
– Acting as a liaison with the communities
represented
– Communicating IS progress to the Garfield County
Board of County Commissioners
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Response to call for
Volunteers
• Land Issues & Solutions Committee
– 7 volunteers
– Good mix of companies, landowners,
government, organizations
• Economic & Population Technical
Committee
– 9 volunteers
– Good mix of companies, landowners,
government, organizations
– Will invite Department of Energy/Defense to
attend
– Will urge Shell to volunteer for the Committee
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First Committee Meeting:
Land Issues & Solutions
• To be scheduled for next week
• Agenda for Land Issues and Solutions
Committee
– Backgrounder, history and discussion of these
types of studies
– Approach of the study
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Classify property use areas
Identify benefits, negative impacts and timing
Identify barriers to landowner use and transfer
Create a toolbox of solutions
Review and revise SOW
Discuss who can do the Study
Review critical path
Finalize Committee & EAB management and
communications processes
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First Committee Meetings:
Economic & Population Technical
Committee
• To be scheduled for next week
• Agenda for Economic & Population Technical
Committee
– Backgrounder, history and discussion of these types of
studies
– Approach and phased structure of the study (overall)
• What are the model alternatives
• What are the phases of the Study and what is the proposed
breakdown
• What are the desired outputs of the Study
• What would be the data inputs
• Where will we get base data
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Specific tasks for Phase I of the Study (2005 work)
Discuss who can do the Study
Review critical path
Finalize Committee & EAB management and
communications processes
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Study Name
• Suggestions
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