Release for Expenditure

Rob,
In response to your voice mail today regarding the request to proceed with
substation I offer the following. I spoke with Jim Alexander today who should
be in touch with you tomorrow. The overall cost profile of the respective
construction requires us to authorize this level of expenditure to provide
the up front engineering work, drawings and to place the order for the
transformers. Jim will be responsible for providing me with any details
that you need to justify the authorization request. I will follow up with
Jim tomorrow although I will be travelling after approx. 10:30 am and want to
make sure we get this ball moving.

As you recall, our estimate of construction timing was short when we
originally requested the initial release for the power line and substation
work. ECS submitted a separate release for the power line work but the
substation release has lost another 2 1/2 weeks of the schedule.

If you have any questions or need to contact me over the next 2 days, please
call my office at 853-3463 and have Melissa page me or leave a detailed
message. As I mentioned to Teb, contact Gerald Nemec at 853-3512 to pick up
and facilitate our execution of this agreement while I'm out of the office.
I will be back on Thursday.

Thanks
mk