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facility undergrounding ordered by a city, the cost recovery procedures in our City Requested Facilities Surcharge (CRFS) Rider may apply (see Attachment B). This is a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC)approved automatic surcharge on electric customers within your City only. If the "special facility" does not involve the under-grounding of a distribution facility pursuant to a City's police powers, or if the City and Xcel Energy do not mutually agree to use the CRFS to recover the excess expenditures for a distribution undergrounding project, use of a surcharge to recover excess expenditures requires a specific filing and approval by the MPUC. The City can also choose to prepay or to otherwise arrange for payment of the excess expenditures for special facilities. Attachment C explains how we will notify you if we attempt to recover the excess expenditures through the CRFS Rider. Please note that your City has the right to challenge: (1) Xcel Energy's determination that a surcharge is authorized; (2) the amount of the surcharge; and (3) whether the surcharge is recovered from Xcel Energy's customers only in your City. Next Steos_ After you review and return the signed Scoping Estimate form, Ycel Energy will send you the completed scoping estimate, along with more specific information related to the potential use of the CRFS Rider for recovery of excess expenditures of an undergrounding of a distribution line or other special facilities project. Upon receiving this information, the City can assess its interests and options and decide how to proceed. Under rounding Pro*ect Estimate I have included our undergrounding project estimate amount of $245,500 in the initial scoping estimate document. Typically, at this stage of the CRFS document process the amount would not be included until we received the City's written verification under Step 2 of the scoping estimate. I included the estimated cost in the original document because the City and our company entered into several discussions regarding this project before the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission issued its Order on November 6,2002.