1. AVAILABLE Will Build to Suit Could the University of Minnesota do this? –Alternate to Line Item or to a DOE grant? Email from Marvin Marshak (in the Middle East until Aug 11) With respect to your question about NOvA, I have thought about some lease back arrangement. The new University VP for Research Tim Mulcahy was previously at UW Madison. He told Earl and me that UW floated Francis Halzen to a maximum of $25 million for ICECUBE and I believe he is expecting some sort of float request with respect to NOvA. The useful amounts are big enough that this needs to be a well-structured deal with real guarantees for the University before it goes tens of millions in the hole. University President Bob Bruininks and his wife Susan Hagstrum are visiting Soudan on Aug. 16 for lunch. It would be good to have a general idea of what we might need to discuss it with him then. Thanks, Marvin

2. Work Breakdown Structure 1.1 Conventional Construction 1.2 Liquid Scintillator 1.3 WLS Fiber 1.4 PVC Extrusions 1.5 PVC Modules 1.6 Front-End Electronics 1.7 Trigger/DAQ 1.8 Final Assembly 1.9 Project Management Major Material Procurements 1 Construction Project 1. Construction2. R&D Changes since the July 18 review- Eliminated “Nova Detector” box at Level 2 Elevated PVC Modules, FE Electronics, Trigger/DAQ, and Final Assembly to Level 2 with Near/Far split beneath each.

3. NO A Organization Breakdown Structure NOvA Project John Cooper Project Manager Ron Ray Deputy Manager Dave Pushka Project Engineer, Mechanical John Oliver Project Engineer, Electronics (Harvard) Suzanne Pasek Budget Officer Bill Freeman Project Scheduler Harry Ferguson Documentation & Schedule Conventional Construction Steve Dixon (Fermilab FESS) 1.1 2.1 Scintillator Stuart Mufson ( Indiana) 1.2 2.2 Wavelength Shifting Fiber Carl Bromberg (Michigan St) 1.3 2.3 PVC Extrusions Rich Talaga (ANL) 1.4 2.4 PVC Modules Ken Heller (Minnesota) 1.5 2.5 Electronics, Trigger, DAQ Leon Mualem (Minnesota) 1.6 & 1.7 2.6 & 2.7 Detector Assembly Dave Ayres (ANL) 1.8 2.8 Project Management John Cooper 1.9 2.9 Note they do 1. and 2.

4. Ron Ray has cloned a 1 st draft NO A PMP from the BTeV PMP WBS Level 2 descriptions

6. Next steps The full set of L2 managers met this morning Approximately = “NO A Technical Committee” I’ve asked the 7 Level 2 managers to examine the existing L3 tasks, change, add, fix,... –AND write the L3 descriptions –by August 19 (at least two have already done a 1 st pass) The Technical Committee will meet again during the week of Aug 22 to discuss L3 tasks and descriptions Then we have a NO A Collaboration meeting on August 26-27 Level 2 managers will present the structure and status of R&D try to recruit more help at L3