# Conway Corporation — Project Stratus Production 002 (2026-06-26) [[Conway Corporation]]'s **second Tier-1 document production** in this investigation — the rolling continuation of the 2026-05-19 FOIA request that began with [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Produces Project Stratus Records|Production 001]]. Delivered 2026-06-26 by Regulatory and Risk Management Director [[Chris Odom]] across **five size-split ZIP files** (`ConwayCorp_Production_002_Part1of5…Part5of5`) — **62 responsive records (PROD-027…088), 76.3 MB** — to [[Joshua Dunlap]] in the Conway FOIA thread ([19e41be6d2204d32](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19e41be6d2204d32)). It is the **negotiation-and-contract record** behind [[Project Stratus]]: the executed instruments, the effluent-cooling engineering and cost-recovery work, and — for the first time at Tier-1 — direct appearances of [[Google LLC]] personnel inside the transaction. ## What's inside - [[Project Stratus Contract Instruments]] — the executed [[Conway Corporation]] ↔ [[Black & Veatch]] Confidentiality Agreement and the executed **Effluent Treatment / Professional-Services Agreement** (`PROD-044`); the [[Developer Reimbursement Agreement]] execution-and-payment chain (Google-paid); and the four-party MOU signature routing (`PROD-085`). - [[Tupelo Bayou Effluent Study RFQ and Engineering Reports]] — the TBWWTP study procurement (RFQ `PROD-032`), the utility-capacity RFI, the Black & Veatch Engineering Report and **rate analysis**, the Google-recipient evaluation presentation (`PROD-037`), and the [[Effluent Reuse Rate and O&MR Charges|2026 Conway Effluent Financial Memo]] transmittal. - [[Project Stratus MOU and Reimbursement Negotiation]] — the Feb–Mar 2025 MOU drafting/markup correspondence among Conway Corp, the [[City of Conway]], [[The Conway Foundation]], and developer counsel ([[Carter Law]]), plus the parallel [[Entergy Arkansas]] substation "joint service agreement" track. - [[Project Stratus Site Visits Scoping and Meetings]] — the April-2024-onward coordination, the June 2024 site visit, parcel-acreage growth, and the richest water/effluent thread (1,000 MW load; Brewer Lake → 2037 supply ceiling; Greers Ferry extension). ## Provenance and mapping to the request This is the second rolling production on FOIA Items 1 (developer correspondence) and 4(c) (capacity-expansion analyses); [[Chris Odom]]'s Production 001 cover had signaled "additional productions may follow." The five Part emails state the set "contain[s] **62 additional responsive records**." A hash-check against the full `raw/` tree found **3 byte-identical re-productions of Production 001** (`PROD-042`≡001 `PROD-002`; `PROD-045`≡001 `PROD-001`; `PROD-056`≡001 `PROD-008`/`010`) and **1 internal duplicate** (`PROD-032`≡`PROD-046`) — noted, not re-ingested — leaving **58 net-new documents**. - **Item 1 (developer correspondence)** — substantially responsive: the NDA/MOU/Reimbursement Agreement chains and the Black & Veatch engineering threads are the developer-coordination record, and — newly — they name the customer side directly (Google personnel). - **Item 4(c) (capacity-expansion analyses)** — the effluent-cooling engineering, the RFQ/RFI, the Engineering Report, and the financial-memo transmittal are the core 4(c)/4(e) material; the Engineering Report PDF, the financial memo PDF, and the AACE Class 5 cost estimates are referenced but **not** produced. ## Key takeaways - **First Tier-1, first-party appearance of [[Google LLC]] in the Conway transaction.** [[Sydney Henry]] (Google "Energy & Location Strategy") executes/routes the [[Developer Reimbursement Agreement]] and triggers Google's payment to Conway Corp (`PROD-048`: *"have CC fill out the attached payment info form for us to get the payment triggered"*; `PROD-031`/`063`: *"the payment is in flight"*); Google employees [[Brian Bordenave]] and [[Tyson Schlect]] are the customer-side recipients of [[Black & Veatch]]'s wastewater evaluation (`PROD-037`). **Recorded as Tier-1 fact; identification is tracked at [[T005 - Google as the Project Stratus Customer]] and reserved for a prospective D007 dialectic** (the wiki does not, on this record, assert "Project Stratus = Google" — see [[D005 Synthesis]], [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]]). - **The "who pays" question moves off open — a three-layer answer.** *Capital:* the executed effluent agreement assumes *"infrastructure improvement costs will be paid for by the industrial facility… no rate structure evaluation is needed for the initial construction costs"* (`PROD-044`). *Study:* Conway fronts the Black & Veatch hourly fee and is reimbursed by Google. *Ongoing O&M:* recovered via a *"reuse rate"* whose structure is set by the unproduced 2026 Conway Effluent Financial Memo — leaving residual **ratepayer exposure** unexcluded. See [[Effluent Reuse Rate and O&MR Charges]]. - **Customer self-builds some capital and carries its own permit.** Per `PROD-044`, the cooling-tower blowdown pipeline *"will be provided by the industrial facility and is not included in this scope"* and the customer owns in-facility distribution/treatment from the point of connection. - **A parallel [[Entergy Arkansas]] substation "joint service agreement" surfaces** (`PROD-070`/`071`), pursued toward CEO [[Laura R. Landreaux]] — the largest **unquantified** infrastructure cost given the ~1,000 MW modeled load; no allocation terms produced. - **Scale and constraint.** 1,000 MW modeled load; 4.3 MGD cooling supply / 1.1 MGD blowdown; future TBWWTP expansion to 32 MGD (`PROD-044`); site grown from 764.27 acres (`PROD-059`) toward a ~1,053-acre map (`PROD-036`); raw water (Brewer Lake) adequate only to ~2037 with a ~32-mile Greers Ferry extension underway (`PROD-073`/`074`). - **New aliases:** **"Daze"** (`PROD-037`) and the earlier **"Project Acorn"** (`PROD-033`). ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Conway Corporation]] — producing custodian; [[Chris Odom]] (transmittal), [[Brett Carroll|Bret Carroll]] (CEO), [[Mark Ferguson]], [[Brett McDaniel]], [[Dale Gottsponer]], [[Zach Gardner]], [[Erin Brown]]. - [[Google LLC]] — [[Sydney Henry]], [[Emily Sotherlund]], [[Brian Bordenave]], [[Tyson Schlect]] (customer side; recorded as Tier-1 fact, see [[T005 - Google as the Project Stratus Customer]]). - [[Black & Veatch]] — [[John A. Keller]], [[Scott Zotti]] (effluent engineering). [[Garver]] — earlier grey-water benchmarking. - [[Conway Development Corporation]] / [[Conway Area Chamber of Commerce]] — [[Corey Parks]], [[Jamie Gates]], [[Brad Lacy]], [[Jack Pillow]], [[Jenifer Kendrick]]. - [[Carter Law]] ([[Jason Carter]]) and [[Kutak Rock LLP]] ([[Stuart C Hindmarsh]]) — MOU/NDA counsel; [[First Community Bank]] ([[Lori Melton]]) and [[The Conway Foundation]] — MOU parties. - [[Entergy Arkansas]] — [[Bentley Story]], [[Danny Games]], [[Laura R. Landreaux]] (substation track). [[Eurofins]] — effluent sampling lab. ## Concepts invoked - [[Project Stratus]] — the Conway data-center codename (aliases "Daze," "Project Acorn"). - [[Tupelo Bayou Treated-Effluent Cooling]] — the cooling-water supply, blowdown, and pretreatment scheme. - [[Developer Reimbursement Agreement]] — the customer-funded study mechanism. - [[Effluent Reuse Rate and O&MR Charges]] — the ongoing cost-recovery mechanism (the residual ratepayer-exposure point). ## Events documented - [[2026-06 Conway Corporation Produces Project Stratus Records]] — this production. - [[2025-02 Google Executes the Project Stratus Reimbursement Agreement]] — the Tier-1 Google payment/execution event. - [[2025-05 Conway Corporation Executes the Black and Veatch Effluent Agreement]] — the executed effluent contract with the capital-vs-O&M allocation. ## Cross-references - [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Produces Project Stratus Records]] — Production 001 (the prior utility production this continues). - [[2026-05 City of Conway Produces Project Stratus Records]] — the City-side land-use production. - [[2025-04 Conway City Council Approves Project Stratus MOU]] — the public MOU approval (this production carries the negotiation behind it). - [[The Conway Data Center Project]] — the project-level synthesis (updated against these Tier-1 anchors). - [[T005 - Google as the Project Stratus Customer]] and [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend]] — the identity tensions this production feeds. ## Open questions / follow-ups - **The Reimbursement Agreement dollar amount** is unknown (only transmittals produced) — FOIA the executed agreement, payment-info form, and payment records. - **The 2026 Conway Effluent Financial Memo PDF** is not produced (only the transmittal) — the highest-value who-pays follow-on; FOIA the memo and any reuse-rate advisory. - **The MOU dollar/cost-sharing terms (Appendix A)** live in unproduced attachments — FOIA the executed FINAL MOU + Appendix A. - **The Entergy substation joint-service agreement** has no produced terms — FOIA Entergy / pull the APSC docket for the large-load cost allocation. - **Identity:** whether the Tier-1 Google appearances suffice to identify Google as the Project Stratus customer is reserved for a prospective **D007** dialectic ([[T005 - Google as the Project Stratus Customer]]).