all right and thank you and welcome everyone uh we're so glad to see so many folks were uh have been able to to join us uh today for this briefing um we're here today to discuss the Four Corners carbon storage Hub project this is an effort being supported by the US Department of Energy's office of fossil energy and carbon management uh we're here today for a number of reasons uh this is an opportunity uh to connect uh with both the uh Department of energy as well as the project team and most importantly to be able to hear from all of you uh as members of uh communities that are are near to the uh anticipated project sites uh so we want to hear from uh all of you today uh and we also want to convey some important information related to the technical nature of the project uh its Community benefits commitments uh and the project management and opportunities to engage as well so thank you so much for being here next slide please uh before we begin there are a few more Logistics that we do want to discuss uh so this briefing is being recorded uh and after uh this uh briefing concludes uh a recording will be posted to the fecm website uh there will also be a second recording posted uh which will include a Navajo language Ang uh translation of the entire uh proceeding the entire meeting any of the presentation materials that you see today will also uh be shared on the fecm website uh and if you registered for this event via email then expect to receive a follow-up uh with the presentation information as well if you have a question at any point in time for any of the uh presenters today or or regarding any of the information that's shared there is a Q&A uh button on the control panel in Zoom at the bottom of your screen uh if you click that button you'll be able to type in and enter a question uh we're going to be reviewing that list of questions uh later in this briefing and we'll try to provide answers to as many questions as possible uh and also uh live captions are available so that is another feature that you can uh utilize if you prefer uh next slide please I want to quickly just review our agenda uh for today so we're going to start with an overview of the fossil energy and carbon management uh program um you're going to be hearing from some folks within fecm who will share information generally about uh the office uh as well as the carbon Safe program uh in particular and then we're going to hear directly from the Four Corners carbon storage Hub project team they're going to provide an overview of the project and talk a bit about its Community benefits as well now after these presentations we're going to have our Q&A session and again we're going to be using the questions that you submit in the Q&A module uh to help to lead and to guide that conversation we really do want to hear from you and we do hope that you uh submit questions today I'll also note that in the Q&A module uh if there are questions that other people have asked and you think that we should prioritize them in the discussion you do have the option to uh hit the like or the Thumbs Up Button uh to indicate that those are uh questions that we should prioritize um after the Q&A session we'll receive some next steps and some closing remarks from the team At Doe uh next slide please I want to quickly provide uh the folks from fecm with an opportunity to introduce themselves these are some of the folks that you're going to be hearing from during the presentations today and so uh Sarah we'll start with you good evening I'm Sarah Forbes and I am the dor for the office of carbon management Technologies good evening my name is Tracy Rasta and I am a senior program manager for carbon transport and storage my name is Bill aljo I am the technology manager for carbon storage infrastructure uh working for FM but at the Doe's National energy technology Laboratory and I am Kelly RoR I am on the carbon management engagement team and looking forward to talking with you today all right thanks so much everyone and so now we're going to hear from uh Sarah Forbes who's going to tell us more about fecm thank you so the office of fossil energy and carbon management or you've already heard um Emanual will call it fecm is divided into two main areas uh carbon management and resource sustainability uh the project we're going to talk about today and the the team that you'll be hearing from are on the carbon management team and we are working at research level doing engineering studies bench scale research small pilots and demonstrations of carbon management Technologies next so carbon management what is it it's a system of Technologies it includes point source carbon capture and carbon dioxide removal so taking carbon dioxide out of emission streams from industrial sources or removing it directly from the air through carbon dioxide removal the captured carbon dioxide then needs to be transported for either conversion into useful products such as fuels chemicals Plastics cement building materials or put in permanent geologic storage next this is an organizational chart of of our office and um you can see it's divided into two primary areas so my office the office of of carbon management Technologies includes five research divisions we do research on hydrogen with carbon management carbon transport and storage carbon dioxide removal carbon conversion and point source carbon capture we also have a component of our office that's focused on engagement policy and Analysis and Partnerships with other federal agencies next I included this slide to give a picture of the cycle of research and development its core to the way we think about things at doe and I want to just take a minute to talk about it so emerging Technologies are are low in technical maturity and and that's where universities and Laboratories do foundational science and Discovery once a technology matures it may move on to applied research and development and activities that drisk the technology if that's successful it will move forward forward to Pilot scale and validation if that's successful then large scale demonstrations and finally at scale deployment it today if you look across our research and development activities at the department of energy we've invested across this Continuum with the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law and the inflation reduction act we're seeing increased investment in Pilots demonstrations and hubs across Clean Energy Technologies including carbon management next the office of fossil energy and carbon management recognizes that for federal Investments and projects to be successfully deployed and meet our net zero emissions goals a broad understanding and meaningful engagement and participation of local communities and stakeholders particularly those with environmental justice concerns be critical so our engagement office is working to scale up engagement efforts that include things like developing educational materials and resources so that communities have information they need to evaluate a potential project and and developing social considerations and impacts guidance um implementing Community Benefit Plan Frameworks across the department it's um it's it's an exciting time and and meeting with you all tonight is is part of that next so from a doe perspective um we understand and value the importance of of doing this of of doing engagement the department of energy teams including our team from fossil energy and carbon management have been engaging around the country where project development is expected to occur to increase awareness about carbon management Technologies the community Benefit Plan requirements um to ensure community and stakeholder participation are possible and to learn about Community questions and concerns over the last year we've we've hosted and sponsored several engagement opportunities that integrate these principles um last year in November we sponsored a carbon management dialogue in Houston Texas and this past April we had a carbon management Workshop in Pueblo Colorado we're in planning to continue a series of community engagement workshops this year in other areas of the country where project development is being considered and we're committed to hosting one of these workshops in northwest New Mexico in early 2025 um for more information as it comes please keep an eye on the fecm event calendar or send a note to the engagement email um which will be in these slides um and with that I will conclude my remarks and turn it over to trace to share more about the carbon Safe program thank you all thank you Sarah next slide please thank you so as s mentioned fossil energy and carbon management or fecm has had more than 20 years of experience following a methodical approach to scaling up carbon storage we've developed and validated Technologies and through the regional carbon sequestration Partnerships pictured on this slide here we've demonstrated the Readiness for commercial scale storage we started with the regional characterization to understand storage potential and carbon emissions throughout the us then we moved to the small scale projects validating regions with the most promising storage opportunities next large-scale projects were then conducted to verify risk assessment and mitigation processes these projects also included stakeholder engagement validating monitoring Technologies and optimizing operational parameters in 2017 fecm initiated the carbon storage facility Assurance or carbon Safe program it began conducting commercial scale site characterization that was required for developing the storage infrastructure for the future carbon capture facilities next slide please now this site selection and characterization process for this process there are several critical components when planning a CO2 storage project these include some like subsurface geology the CO2 emissions transportation and Community involvement a key consideration though is the subsurface characteristics for example the types of rocks underground and their properties these characteristics can vary from region to region some regions have suitable rocks and properties for permanent storage of CO2 While others do not so the subsurface data collection as you can see at the left side begins at the Basin scale and then smaller sub regions are identified and as more data is collected the project will move until a site is selected a specific site characterization that occurs is a very thorough evaluation and a lot of subsurface data is collected and analyzed to demonstrate to the Environmental Protection Agency or the EPA that the site will contain the CO2 so you're probably wondering what types of character activities characterization activities occur at these sites next slide please so we wanted to show you what some of these characteristic activities are this slide shows all four phases of the carbon safe um program and the pictures you see here represent some of the activities conducted during each of the four phases for example during the storage feasibility phase two you will see a drilling rig collecting core samples and a picture of the core samples is shown underneath the phase two on this slide and during the site characterization imp permitting phase or phase three you may see these large trcks conducting a 3D seismic survey and these surveys use sound waves to create an image of the subsurface like you see in the picture below with the w lines underneath phase three and you may also see additional drilling wigs come in to drill additional Wells to verify the extent of the storage Reservoir and the ceiling rocks all of this information is integrated to develop computer models that will predict the extent of the CO2 storage underground this is called the area of review for CO2 and the area review is that area that will be monitored over the life of a project so if you look at the bottom of the slide you'll also see that Community benefit plans are required across All Phases of the project from feasibility through site characterization and construction and my colleague Kelly RoR will speak more to those plans in a few minutes but first my colleague Bill Alo will provide more information about the National Environmental Policy Act or NEPA and class six permitting processes including where the community can engage bill okay thank you Tracy uh the one thing I should mention about the carbon safe program particularly its phased approach um there is no construction until phase four so the project you're going to hear more about tonight the Four Corners project is a phase three project so it is not actually going to construct a a storage facility on this project it will have to get a separate award for con construction if construction of the facility is to ever occur but what I'm going to explain here is the the national energy po Policy Act or NEPA process as it applies to a phase three project which as Tracy mentioned is simply the site characterization and acquiring permits and part of this phase three process is getting uh approval or not necessarily approval uh having an analysis done by the federal government under the national energy Policy Act of the whole project through phase four with the idea that they if they ever intend to construct they have to have a NEPA analysis of their entire project that analysis of the entire project is done during phase three however the uh the project itself in terms of construction is not done until phase four I want to make that clear up front so what I want to do here with this flowchart is walk you through uh some of the public uh engagement opportunities that may exist during the course of the phase three project which is the project we're speaking about tonight and this is a general approach not for the specific Four Corners project it applies to all phase three characterization and permitting Pro uh projects it starts out with the uh application to the funding opportunity announcement every applicant submits what's called an environmental questionnaire or an EQ for every single work site at which work will be done under the phase three project uh these environmental questionnaires are fairly extensive they're about 30 pages long they uh ask what are the attributes of the site sites at which work will be done and the nature of the activities most of the work in phase three is going to be office space so the impacts of that that work is fairly small and they usually get what's called a CX or a categorical exclusion from NEPA activities uh and that CX doesn't mean we don't we ignore things uh a CX means that the activity uh under question is well defined it's been done many many times before and there doe has a very good understanding of what the impacts are in most cases uh uh there will be a categorical exclusion the couple exceptions would be for activities that occur in the field in in many phase three projects it's drilling a well or doing a seismic survey those specific activities can't still can and do receive categorical exclusions however the level of information that has to be provided is much greater and can take a you know several months before or or more before the full impact can be assessed and uh uh the NEPA office can decide whether or not a category exclusion is warranted uh the project can actually be awarded while this process is going on the recipient of the award will just not be able to undertake those activities at sites for which a NEPA determination or a categorical exclusion has not been obtained if it is decided that a categorical exclusion is not warranted it goes to an EA or an Eis which I'll explain in just a minute uh anyway the next step in the process is that the award recipient submits what's uh called an eiv or environmental information volume now that covers the entire carbon capture and storage operation from the beginning of capture through the end of storage and in the post closure period uh their best estimates of uh the recipients best estimates of what that project will be from Soup To Nuts even though not all that work is being done in phase three they the environmental information volume has to cover that and and because it it stems from the NEPA philosophy that if we do not uh build this storage site we're going to assume for the moment that it is going to get built under pH four um every action that occurs because of the existence of that site has to be considered and the impacts of that have to be considered so it's a fairly extensive um uh analysis and anyway the uh the uh NEPA office reviews the in uh information in the environmental information volume and makes a determination is this an EA or an environmental assessment or is does this warrant an environmental impact statement uh an environmental assessment is a still fairly thorough review but not as extensive as an environmental impact statement and uh the federal law says that an environmental assessment has to be completed with one year and an environmental impact statement has to be completed within two years after this determination is made in the green circle on the right and that th those are um events that occur in the first year of the project if it is decided that an environmental impact statement is needed the public has a chance for involvement during What's called the scoping period whereby uh the award let's call it the award recipient or the project proponent um and doe and the public decide what should be the scope of this environmental impact statement uh the other information I or public input I would like to mention it goes back to for example uh if there is a seismic survey or if there's well drilling uh there have to be permits issued by at the county and local level the federal government doesn't have any say in that but some County and and state and local permitting uh regulations will require public notification and perhaps a public involvement it all depends on the locality so that is another opportunity that I didn't put on this slide if you move down then to the bottom of the slide going from now from right to left uh doe then prepare doe is responsible for preparing a draft en environment alal assessment document or an environmental impact statement document again relying on input from the project recipient to develop that document uh when it is finished uh the public comment period is 30 days uh for if it's an environmental assessment or 45 days and and a second public hearing if it is an environmental impact statement um I should mention another opportunity in the lower right uh while the draft environmental assessment order Eis is being prepared uh the federal government doe is uh responsible for conducting consultations with other federal agencies that may be affected by this project and any tribes that may be affected by this project prior to the uh release of the draft EA or Eis and prior to the overall public comment period uh after that public comment period uh doe takes all those comments and responds to every one of them incorporate Ates the uh input as needed into the final EA or Eis and then uh it that information goes into what's called a Fonzi which is a finding of no significant impact that means that uh it's a basically a doe declaration it's not a decision per se but it is information that will be used by in combination with other uh factors to determine whether doe goes ahead with the the project um if it the impact is found significant and if it's if it is an environmental assessment the decision could be made you know what we need to do an environmental impact assessment uh we can't find that the impacts are not significant therefore we're going to proceed to a full environmental impact statement now uh during this whole process of draft e EA or Eis preparation and uh uh Doe's decision uh or final resolution of the document uh the project May submit a phase 4 application however the phase 4 construction award may not be started or signed until either a record of decision if the E if it's an Eis or a finding of no significant impact has been signed by Doe so they can apply for a project but they can't start until the Nea process completed which is with a Fonzi or an Rod um and the color coding at the bottom gives you an idea of the time frame the first the the light blue is in the pre- award stage years one and two are the the green years two and three are the second and third year and years three is the purple so next slide uh the other opportunity is sort of independent of the uh doe process but it is something that that the uh project recipient has to go through with the Environmental Protection Agency which is to obtain a permit for every uh class six well every well that way they plan to use for CO2 injection uh it's how that applies to the phase three project is first the applicant uh submits a a permit application to EPA a permit uh application to construct uh EPA does a sort of a paper review saying are all the parts here and if if if it does it moves on to a technical review which can last up to 18 months and typically the carbon safe phase three activities that are covered under the doe award is for this technical review uh period uh then EPA prepares a draft permit uh and then um and then there's a public comment period of 30 to 45 days after the draft permit to construct again this is not a permit to inject it is simply a permit to construct the well and then public comment period occurs after the draft permit to construct has been issued then all the comment public comments that that come in as part of that public hearing process go into the final permit uh and then after that there's a period there after during construction there are a lot of tests that EPA makes uh the project proponent go through and a lot of tests that they make them uh and it's all prescribed by EPA and then finally and only then do they have authorization to inject uh the thing to remember is that projects cannot apply for a phase 4 construction award until the class until that application is at least in the technical review process but they cannot receive a phase for award until that final permit is complete until EPA has incorporated all public comment and says okay you have a permit to construct only then will a phase four Construction award uh under carbon safe be issued and I hope that didn't take too long and I'll be glad to take any questions that happen after that pass it on to Kelly RoR who will talk about Community benefits thank you Bill and thanks to everyone for tuning in this evening again my name is Kelly rer I support the implementation of the community Benefit Plan guidance cross our offices portfolio um so what are Community benefit plans or cbps uh they are a set of plans that aim to address societal considerations and impacts and federally funded projects these plans are submitted alongside um um as part of a Project's application package alongside technical elements they are reviewed by both internal and external experts who have subject matter expertise or practitioner experience in the topic areas related to engagement labor issues diversity Equity inclusion and accessibility and environmental justice and for carbon safe projects cbps make up to 20% of the applications overall score next slide please so Community benefit plans must address four key priority priorities that emphasize early and robust engagement with community and labor stakeholders high quality jobs and investments in Workforce Development diverse and Equitable participation in both employment and other economic opportunities and the implementation of the justice 40 initiative to ensure that benefits are directed to disadvantaged communities next slide so as Tracy noted the CBP requirements applies across technology types and phases of project deployment so therefore in projects and programs like carbon safe that are designed in phases community benef benefit activities a lot like the technical aspects of projects are expected to build on the engagement and the work from previous phases so the scope of the projects that we're discussing today are focused on feasibility and site characterization and do not include commercial construction during this funding period so for these phases uh the cbps emphasize activities that are necessary to establish that Foundation of meaningful engagement and a plan for robust Community benefits so activities that we emphasize and and want to see in cbps look like dedicating time and resources to conduct the research analysis environmental justice assessments to better understand the project area and conduct that early engagement with community and labor stakeholders um it is really important to establish those two-way engagement mechanisms or processes for incorporating public input into project design and implementation and it's just so important that this work happens early in project development because developing those strong formal agreements that reflect authentic Partnerships and Community priorities takes time and so that was a quick overview but happy to return to CBP questions during our discussion and next I'll turn it over to uh William to present an overview of the selected carbon safe phase 3 project for Corners carbon storage Hub that we anticipate being awarded soon thank you yeah thank you KY um for the quick introduction of our project so um the title of our project is the forness carbon storage Hub that is carbon safe phase three I am Dr William ampa a professor at New Mexico Tech and also a research engineer at petrum recovery Research Center please next slide I would like to introduce our team that uh forms the CBP team so we do have I'm starting from the top left we do have Mr John Lon um who is a CBP coordinator he's leading the effort and he is also at New Mexico Tech we do have Dr renala toi she's a professor environmental science department at nmt and also we do have Mr geori he is also a session head industry Outreach um at petrum recovery Research Center we do have Miss Jenny F she's a deputy director at petrum recovery Research Center here here at nmt and also we do have Mr Wy drug Master he is a Contractor on the project uh supporting us on our community outreach and he's with part three uh part three marketing we do have Dr Robert B he is the director of petrum recovery Research Center and he's the project manager manager for this project we do have Dr Jenny Shemar she's economics professor at UNM we also do have Dr shuti Mishra she's a social scientist at siia National Lab we do have Mr Steve Gray uh Mr Steve Gray is also from the Navajo Nation and he's supporting us on the community engagement as well and I'm William a next slide please so we do have quite a big number a team a big team that uh consists of academic institutions which is led by New Mexico Tech um we do New Mexico Tech is the prime recipient of this award uh we do have other universities in the state of New Mexico specifically uh University of New Mexico UNM participating with that environmental justice effort as well uh can you let me move on okay thank you let me move on so what is the overall project objectives our project is to develop a storage Hub within the for con region and we are going to perform comprehensive site characterization for three uh sites different sites within the San Basin and all of this is to help to accelerate the deployment of integrated CCS technology within the region we are as part of the comprehensive side characterization all the data that we will collect as part of the characterization and also the environmental analysis we are going to put all this information together to prepare submit and attain a UIC class experiment from the EPA and in our case with regards to the three sites that we looking at two of them is on the Navajo land so it is going to be through region 9 EPA region 9 and we do have a private land which is going to be through EPA region 6 and each side should be able to store at least a minimum of 50 mric tons of CO2 and we are as part of the project we do have extensive salt water disposal in the Basin and then also we do have the existing carbon safe project in there so we have to do a cumulative impact effort with regards to all these activities that is going on and see if we can still be able to store the CO2 within the three different sites next slide and then also we have to uh perform uh the environmental information volume uh we need to submit that to doe Nea for them to make a determination whether we get a ea or E and once the determination is made our project team is going to support doe selected contractor to be able to put in a documentation for either year or year now let me say that since we are operating on the Navajo land and as Bill said earlier on we did not get categorical exclusion for our site characterization efforts so that means that there has to be an additional scrutiny with regards to our environmental efforts to be able to even perform uh the side characterization work as part of our even characterization phase three project and also we have to do the CO2 feasibility study to make sure that the source we've picked is able to produce the amount of CO2 that is required to be injected in the three sites that we've selected and also a pipeline feed study to connect the CO2 source to our storage site we need to also do a feed study on that as well and also we need to have a risk risk mitigation plan especially when we have multiple activities ongoing in the Basin in addition to the three sites that we are proposing so certainly we're going to work on a risk uh mitigation plan and uh also we have to have a storage field development plan where we are summarizing all the efforts that we've done uh to be able to show that all the three sites do have the maximum capacity to store the amount of CO2 and that is available whilst minimizing risk and then also uh describing the elements of the storage facilities and the cost uh for the proposed Project Life as well and also there has to be a business and financial plan documentation that needs to be developed as well and above it all the project will execute a community benefit plan and this will consist of a targeted community outreach programs to educate the public and promote energy and environmental justice to ensure that the project benefits are realized by the local and also the regional communities including the disadvantaged communities next slide let me use the slide to show the interdependency of what is actually going on right now in the Basin with regards to storage projects that New Mexico Tech is leading so I will start with the um the tri the blue deep blue triangle that is existing carbon saory project where we've already submitted our UIC class experiment to EPA and it's currently under technical review now the light blue is one of the site that we've proposed to store 50 million at least 50 million metric tons of CO2 and also the um the purple or the mo triangle is the site for um that is also another site and that site is divided into two so as you go down um from where we've located the Four Corners um Power Plant which is the main source for our project right at right within that vicinity that is where we do have one of the site and as you go to the South we do have another site as well and also enchant energy with entech also working on the Four Corners power plant integrated CCS project which is a fee steady project now I must say that with all these activities going on the Casp for Corners Regional initiative project brings all of these together looking at how each project is impacting the other so with this we can come together with all this come together to form the Four Corners carbon management Hub within the San Basin next slide so the question that will be asked is that do we have a potential storage within the San Basin we've started working in the San Bas since 2020 especially for the carbon save but uh our Bure of geology has been working in this Basin for a very long time so on your left I'm showing you the graphic column of the San Bas if you look at all the way from the top oh Al Sandstone has been identified as the lowest most usdw mostly in the areas that we are operating which is around 800 ft and as you go down we do have existing oil and uh gas producing zones which includes uh the fruit land formation uh the pictured Cliff sandstone mene Point Lookout and we also do have the appco Shi the the Gip and then the Dakota those are the predominant gas production zones within the San Bas now our activities is looking at a selling Acer that can store the amount of CO2 that we looking for that we are looking at we've identified as part of our first carbon safe project that the in Sandstone formation do have enough capacity to store CO2 right at the site where we have the s b carbon safe project we do have the opportunity to extend that use the information that we got from or we've learned from this particular project to the other S as well now the San Bas in this formation is quite extensive so it expands throughout the area that we are targeting the too and then the Su is going to be the cap rock that will make sure that the CO2 that we are putting into the enta stays in place we also do have the camel which is beneath the enta to also provide additional ceiling beneath the injection Zone as well now as part of this project the ENT is our main injection Zone but we do have the BL Sandstone which could be classified as a secondary uh injection Zone as well but most of our efforts is all concentrated in the and sstone formation on the right I'm showing you the geological complex you know how complex the geology in the San Basin is we do have the yellow shaded region to be the central part of the Basin where most of all our activities are focused on but there is a Hogback structure that is on the edges of the central part of the Basin and that requires us to be able to steady the Basin to make sure that we can store CO2 successfully without the CO2 moving through all the way to the hog back which goes which is more or less exposed to uh the Selfies and there are some additional geological features that needs to be studied for us to be able to Der risk the Basin to make sure that we can successfully store CO2 within the Basin and we've done some work we've done quite a number of work through the support that we received from thee on our first site and we do have the opportunity to extend that to the other three site next slide so let me focus on the four corner storage H what are some of the things that we are going to do and as Tracy talked about all the side characterization efforts that goes through phase one phase two phase three so our project what are we going to do as I said earlier on we are developing we are performing detail C characterization on three sites within the San Basin and the Four Corners power plant which which is emits at least 10 million metric tons of CO2 per year is our main source for this project with all the data that we are going to collect we are going to prepare and submit UIC class 6 permit for the three sites to EPA and as I said earlier on within our steady area we do have one region we do have the Navajo Nation site which will be permitted through EPA region 9 and then also we do have a private l which will be permitted through EPA region 6 as part of our project we will meet all the environmental requirements for the characterization work and then also for uh the integrated project and also we will prepare the storage field development plan for the future project activities and we will execute the community benefit outcome and objectives as well so what what are the characterization efforts that we going to do we are going to draw two characterization Wells to prove the sites that we are proposing we are also going to reenter an existing well to acquire well logs information to also prove the third site meaning we are not drilling three Wells to prove three sides we are drilling two Wells and then also utilizing an existing well within the Basin to also prove the third side with the two words that we are going to draw we are combining we are collecting a combined core of th ft and also we will sample the drilling cuttings and then also we will perform or acquire Advanced warlog information we also acquire fluid sampling to prove that the entr that is our main target do have a salinity that is more than 10,000 PPM other than that US EPA classifi that as an underground source of drinking water we you will also acquire a 29 square mile 3D 20 M square mile 3D seismic on two sides and we also Lin since about 50 more than 50 mile 2D seismic lines and all of this to help us to prove the sites that we are trying or we are proposing uh to be able to store CO2 and it's all der risking the basing or the size that we've chosen to make sure that successfully we can store CO2 without any problems or let's say without any potential leakages or any issues contaminating the underground source of drinking water all this information and all the analysis all the data we will perform laboratory seats experiments on the core and also the fluids that we collect from the subsurface and we will Inc integrate all of them to perform the numerical models and that is going to help us to prepare the UIC class experiment applications to be submitted to EPA next slide so why the Four Corners power plant and this slide is from the nav energy which is part of the ente and why zentec wants to still make sure that this plant continuous to um to be in operation the mine and then also the four corners power plant contributes to 42% of the Navajo nation's general fund specifically in 2022 this mine provides stable jobs and then also consistent energy resources to the community and also the mine and then the fourness power plant I said earlier on accounts for significant contribution to uh the nation so if this plant is to shut down all these jobs are going to be lost and all these resources that is available to the Navajo Nation is going to be lost so definitely we have to as scientists you know as University Unico Tech and all our partners our role is to make sure that we can find a home for the CO2 and we are grateful for doe for giving us that opportunity uh to do that next slide so let's talk about the CBP Milestones what are we planning to do in terms of our community Benefit Plan I've broken them down into the four categories so the first one the four areas the first one that I want to talk about is the community and labor engagement as part of our project and as you look at it we do have the budget period one budget period two budget period three activities that we plan to perform we hope to have a community benefits agreement and in our budget period one we are going to look at the the parties and then also we are going to uh Define the scope we will identify the scope as well and in our second year of the project we want to be able to have a final agreement drafted and the agreement is going to be signed in our bp3 and also there is a collective bagging agreement between the operating jobs we will identify the unions within our first year of the project and then we will report the engagement with the unions and then also there is a project labor agreement we will identify the parties in our first year and the scope will be identified initial discussions and the meetings will be held in our second year and then we will report on that in the last year there is also a community Workforce agreement that will be in place we are we will identify the parties and also will identify we will identify the scope we'll have discussions we will make contacts and then have a stakeholder list and based on the discussions that we will have we'll finalize a report in our last year we will develop Outreach materials which will be provided to the communities areas that are being impacted by our project to educate them about the significant of our project so there will be annual project meetings and then also we will have have a website that we will provide more materials about our project to the community as well and then also we will have a community feedback and data incorporated into our project so there are going to be three workshops in budget period one two workshops budget period two and then additional two workshops in budget period three next slide with regards to investing in job qualities as Bill and Kelly pointed out as part of our project is not construction it is a characterization phase so there is no construction jobs that we've identified but we're going to have commitments to support Workforce Education and Training and as you see our team that I introduced today we do have a professor from the Navajo Nation she's going to attract talents from the Navajo Nation to be part of our project as students and we also do have discussions with NTU San College where we are going to partner with them uh to develop training program to also enhance the community to be able to take advantage of this opportunity that is coming in the area so in our year two we are going to develop three project fact sheets and I'll show you one that even though we've not started the project yet but whenever we go for some meetings that we've been invited we hand them over as well and we also perform we also develop training materials as well we will have assessment of the economic impact and job creation how is our project going to impact the communities that are going to be affected by our efforts in our second year we'll have initial white paper on the economic and job creation impact and it will be revised and the final uh paper will be delivered at the last year next slide with regards to diversity Equity inclusion and accessibility we definitely would have to revamp our local recruitment efforts and then also ensure that local communities have access to the jobs that are going to be created as part of this effort and how do we do that we will make sure that the jobs especially the drilling of the weal that we are going to drill even the um the neppa work the eiv that needs to be done the permitting we are using the um we are using a company from the Navajo Nation to help us with that so we are going to make sure that we advertise the project in the local communities to make sure that we attract the local people to do the work in their local community that this project is going to be impacting that impacted on we have on reportfor to create Partnerships with training and placement programs for under rep presented workers as well and there's going to be the targeted recruitment efforts as I said rad already engaging to recruit a student from the Navajo Nation to be part of our project and we'll continue to do that we do have under undergraduate students that are also from the nation that will recruit and train them and they will be part of the project you know for them to be able to explain um the importance of the project to the community as well so we'll certainly report on the efforts to create the partnership with training and placement programs for the underrepresented uh workers as well and we will partner and also will contract with M MSI or the business majority owners controlled by the under represented people as well so in our first year we'll have MSI and under represented business we will identify them and then also we will engage them in the second year as well we also Advance diversity Equity inclusion and accessibility we would Define a list of the specific topics to be covered and then also we will present a Dei Focus topics during the team meetings and discuss and also get a feedback and we report this one in our last year next slide now with regards to justice 40 and EnV environmental justice we will as part of this project identifies the benefits and then Alo the impacts to the disadvantaged communities this is something that we did as part of our application and we'll continue to do that we throughout the project and also we will work on an increase in job quality creation definitely once we are able to capture the CO2 from the power plant then it's going to be a clean job a clean energy option uh for the community as well also we will do the energy and environmental justice Baseline assessment as part of our project and Professor um jish shamak and shti they are going to lead that effort and we'll report on the energy and environmental justice Baseline Baseline assessment and then as we go through the project we are going to um look at the impact assessment as well and at the end of it we're going to have a white paper delivered in the last year now this going to be my last slide in addition to the project fact so we've already started doing some Community engagement and stakeholder um Outreach activities during the time that we were working on the proposal and even when do selected our project for an award we try to have good relationship you know we have meetings with Navajo nation's resource development committees we' attended several Navajo Nation related um related activities or programs we've done Outreach to some of the chapters we've participated in the original CCS symposiums we've also developed good relationship with entech helium subsurface group that are going to help us with the permitting and then also some efforts with our with regards to our drilling activities as well we also participated in the naaj uh we also participated in the NGO meeting recently in fingon as well next slide so whenever we go out for meetings you know we've created fact sheets for all our projects and this one is the preliminary one that we've created for the foron storage Hub whenever we go out there we hand this over to the community to explain the importance of our project to uh the communities if you have any questions about our project feel free to reach out to me uh I do have my email down there and I'll be happy to respond to your questions thank you I hand it over to Kelly thank you