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Mr. Troy Adams /September 27, 2011/ Page 4 resource decisions. Results from the scoring system at this point will be a "pass" or "fail" approach to detemilne if the party needs to be looked at more thoroughly. At this point, there isn't expected to have enough information to determine the continued participation in the CMMPA Study. 3. EVALUATE FINDINGS FROM CMMPA STUDY PSE will evaluate the findings from the CMMPA study to provide information to the ERMU Commission to make the decision to continue with the evaluation. More detailed information may be needed from the evaluation in order provide the summary information. The scoring methodology will also be applied to the CPPMA study data, and be used to work towazd the recommendation of continuing or not continuing the evaluation study. 4. FORMULATE RECOMMENDATION ON FURTHER CPPMA PARTICIPATION Results from the CMMPA study will be compared to the alternative resource screening results to determine the key question of whether to continue participating in the CMMPA portfolio development. This comparison will not be a full compazison of the results, because altemative results won't be completed at this point. The decision to continue with CMMPA will essentially be made without a full analysis of the alternatives. One of the main criteria expected at this point in this project will be the viability of the CMMPA portfolio development, compazed to the resource availability of alternative suppliers. Other criteria will likely align with the scoring system. Presentation of results and discussion with the Commission aze assumed to be part of this task. $. IF CMMPA PARTICIPATION ENDS - PROVIDE A MORE ROBUST POWER SUPPLY EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE In order to provide a more robust power supply evaluation, more detailed information will be sought from each provider that has passed the initial screening outlined in Task 2. There may be other entities considered at this point to be added to the list of viable providers. The main focus of this task is to perform a complete analysis including an evaluation of projected cost and scenarios considering vazious environmental regulations. The more detailed information will be included in the scoring evaluation for each alternative supplier and combined into the evaluation in Task 7. 6. IF CMMPA PARTICIPATION CONTINUES- PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN FORMULATING THE FINAL RESOURCE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE STUDY PSE will work with ERMU and CMMPA to help finalize the portfolio recommendation as needed and move the process into the project development phase. The analysis for this Task will include working with the CMMPA staff and other vendors involved in the process to make sure the study includes criteria required for the Minnesota Certificate of Need filing.