i'm pleased to bring up mark bierman from the army corps to give an overview of what is up next. >> i have with me today craig conor who's our lead planner on the study. he's been working weekends and nights to get us to where we are today, and patrick mckinley, a new manager for the district. i want to give you a quick overview. we recently had a successful first milestone -- first major milestone meeting in which we got the thumbs up from the vertical team to move forward, and i want to say before i get into the details of that, that you all hire well at the port. we've really enjoyed working with the folks in this partnership. steve linda, brad, wonderful to really important when working with a tsoaugust, such as the feds. and you all approved -- excuse me -- the execution of the cost sharing agreement, so we went forward with that august meeting, and it was executed, and it allowed the feds to put 50% into the feasibility study. once that was executed, we have been working and meeting every week in sometimes entities. we have made no decisions per se. we've been working on, again,