Laguna Station - Off-site drilling

Ester Antonio at the Laguna Tribal Office had contacted Norm Gonzales (Laguna
Team) last week with some questions regarding a permit the Tribe was going to
issue to TW for drilling the six additional off-site monitor wells. The
questions were in regard to: 1) project start and complete date; and 2) who
to issue the permit to. I contacted Ester this afternoon to discuss these
items. Ester will issue the permit to Norm Gonzales with a start date of
1/17/00 and a complete date of 2/17/00. Ester indicated that the permit can
be reissued with different dates if necessary. Ester also indicated that I
should contact Thurman "TJ" Robinson with the BIA Laguna Office regarding
NEPA documentation. I contacted TJ and he said that he has submitted the
paperwork for a "categorical exclusion" for the additional wells. TJ said
that this was submitted to the BIA office in Albuquerque and that we could
still shoot for January 17th as a start date. He said he would fax a copy of
the document to me once he receives it. He also indicated that he still
needed to check into whether there is a fee associated with the submittal and
he would get back to me on this issue.