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through some type of ?? review. Maybe a more abbreviated environmental assessment, maybe a full - blown ? ?? assessment. Let me address No. 9: why would Irving offer Paris $200,000 to participate in studies when Irving could do these on their own? JM: That's a question I do not have a direct answer to. That would require speculation on my part. It just makes sense for them to approach you in a friendly manner, saying, "We would like to do this, be our partner." Because they'd have a hard as heck time trying to take your water from you, OK? So they're trying to look for a partner and look for some way to work in cooperation with other people. That would be my assessment of it. But only they know what their true motivation is. But to me it only makes good business and political sense to try to find somebody who would participate in the study as a part of that process. You'd be more likely to have some confidence that the study is being done in a fashion that would address your needs. That's all I can tell you about that, but that's my speculation. No. 10, a very good question, and it's basically whether it's possible for Paris to structure a contract with Irving in light of the existing contractual obligations of the City of Paris. This is a question that is going to require a considerable amount of analysis concerning your contractual rights vis a vis the Corps of Engineers, and what are your appropriative water rights vis a vis the State of Texas. You have a large water right with the State'of Texas. You have the right in total to 55 million gallons of water a day of diversions from Lake Pat Mayse alone. That's the equivalent of about 51,610 acre -feet a year. That's a lot of water. You have contracts right now with Campbell Soup, Direct Energy, Lamar County Water Supply District, and Lamar Power Partners, that totals 30.3 million gallons of water, or about 34,000 acre -feet. And so, that plus whatever water the city uses to run its own municipal supply system is the water you're currently obligated to supply. So there's some amount of water over and above your current contractual commitments, plus your own needs, that is clearly surplus water to your needs and would be available for sale to Irving. The thing that complicates this is, many of your contractual obligations are not nearly fully utilized. And so while you may have a entity that has a contractual right to 9,000 acre feet a year, if you look at their last three, four or five years average, it may be 3,000 acre feet a year. So you have a lot of under - utilized contractual water. There are clearly mechanisms by which you could sell that water to Irving as long as that water sale to Irving was subordinate to your existing customers. And that would require a fair amount of technical analysis about how much can you safely commit to Irving. And when I say safely commit, it's always going to be subordinate to your existing contractual arrangements. But if you could do an analysis, and you could find out, if you looked at your last five years and you worked with your customers in terms of what their future needs would be, you could find out how much of your contractual obligations were surplus to the anticipated needs of the customer. And you could make arrangements to sell that water to Irving, as long as you had the right to get that water back if it was truly needed by your customers. And there are currently contracts structured like that in the state of Texas for other courses. I've been involved in some of those. I know there is one between the Sabine River Authority, which contracts to sell water to Greenville and Longview and a number of other smaller communities, but that water is not fully utilized, so they have sold a portion of that water to the North Texas Municipal Water District, subordinated to the rights of those existing customers. But they are getting a revenue off of that sale to North Texas, as well as the revenue they have off contracts with existing customers. So it is possible to structure something like that. Question: (inaudible) This is a technical question you want to have your engineers address for you, but I would submit to you that because you have a storage reservoir, and you have a delivery system that's capable of meeting those peak demands, and because Irving is fixing to take that water and move it to another storage