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/ () 7A- 1. Description of the Project. The Project will include a regional water treatment plant and facilities for the diversion and conveyance of raw water from Lake Dunlap on the Guadalupe River to the treatment plant. These diversion and conveyance facilities may include the use of existing SCS flood control structures along the proposed transmission line from Lake Dunlap. The Project may also include facilities for the diversion and conveyance of water from the San Marcos River to the regional water treatment plant. 2. Joint Development of Project. San Marcos and GBRA agree to jointly pursue development of the Project. Immediately following execution of this Agreement, San Marcos and GBRA will pursue development of the necessary detailed agreement(s) (the "Project Agreement(s)") between themselves and other participating entities in the San Marcos area. Project initiation will commence following execution by all necessary parties of the Project Agreements(s). The Project Agreement(s) shall provide for ajoint Project Management Committee. 3. Expeditious Development of Initial Sta2e. The Project shall be developed in stages, and the initial stage shall be developed as expeditiously as possible. In order to be able to develop the initial stage expeditiously, that stage shall be based on currently-available supplies of surface water under existing permits and contracts, and under permits and contracts that can be obtained quickly. The source of water for the initial stage shall be water released from Canyon Reservoir and diverted from Lake Dunlap on the Guadalupe River, and possibly, in addition, water diverted from the San Marcos River. . 4. Additional Comnútment from Canvon Reservoir. The extent to which additional water from Canyon Reservoir (water in addition to the 5,000 acre-feet per year currently committed under the Canyon Contract) will be committed to the project, and the extent to which the timing of any such additional commitment will be based on expansion of the Project beyond the initial stage, will be addressed in the Project Agreement(s). 5. Possible Diversions from the San Marcos River. Whether, and the extent to which water from the San Marcos River should be supplied to the Project in addition to water from Canyon Reservoir, will be determined by San Marcos and GBRA and set forth in the Project Agreement(s). In this regard, immediately upon execution of this Agreement, San Marcos will request that the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission ("TNRCC") continue its processing of San Marcos' § 11.121 Application to the point at which the TNRCC staff determines that application to be administratively complete; upon such determination, however, San Marcos will request that no notice be issued by the TNRCC regarding San Marcos' § 11.121 Application unless and until San Marcos requests otherwise; and, any further 'action on that application shall be determined by San Marcos based on requirements of the TNRCC or provisions of the Project Agreement(s). GBRA encourages participation in the ongoing instream flow study being conducted by Texas Parks and Wildlife and GBRA by San Marcos and other entities with significant interests in the water resources in the Guadalupe River Basin, and San Marcos will participate to the extent set forth in the Project Agreement(s). Unless the Project Agreement(s) provide otherwise, San Marcos may pursue its Bed and Banks Application prior to completion of the instream flow study and, if San Marcos chooses to do so, GBRA will support such efforts.