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Looking down the road, we will particularly need the assistance of local decision-makers in crafting and/or finalizing items 2,3, and 5 -that comes a little later on this spring. PREPARING ITEM #1 -THE SCOPE OF STUDIES (SOS) A feasibility study normally results in a comprehensive report of findings that itself is comprised of major individual products -mostly detailed reports addressing individual factors or technical disciplines which were examined during the study (i.e. the natural environment, economic effects, plan formulations, legal/agency coordination, real estate analyses, public involvement, social studies, cost estimating, etc. etc. etc). Therefore, included in the SOS is a definition of these major products -and - a description of the tasks to be accomplished so as to determine the feasibility of formulated plans/projects. That processing, and those determinations, are the subject matter of these major products (reports). So, the SOS must provide specific descriptions of the tasks to be accomplished (what), the reasons for the tasks (why), the techniques, models, and procedures to be used to accomplish the tasks (how), the organizational elements responsible for the tasks (who), the timing and schedule of the tasks (when), and the costs of the tasks (how much). The SOS needs to provide two types of detail to be complete. The first is a complete list of tasks which must be accomplished to do the feasibility study. The second type of detail answers the "what, why, who, how, when and how much" for each task identified: the interro atives. Note: history has shown that Corps headquarters review of the SOS section of the PSP has focused primarily on what and how elements of the proposed study work. LEVEL OF DETAIL - "WHAT'S THE STOPPING POINT?" There are two considerations here. First, we'll be thinking this through technically -how exactly will we investigate the resource and conduct the planning process at our Eugene-Springfield waterways? In this case the 905b is our platform - we laid out four priority areas to focus work on, and set up a framework for looking at the rest of the urban watershed in a more conceptual or overarching way. We identified numerous types of study activities/tasks that could be used on the issues/objectives at the four priority areas, and to get us further down the road elsewhere in the metro watersheds. We also built the study upon twenty years worth of local waterway-related planning work -taking these the "next step" is the base strategy for this study. Those local plans touched everything waterways: across all economic/community development, environmental, public use, watershed management, and other disciplines. Those local plans provided many prompts for specific further technical work, which directly match the types of technical and formulating work one does in a Corps feasibility study.