# Cypress Order No. 5 — Independent Monitor Consolidation (also Order No. 11 in 24-072-U, Order No. 10 in 25-047-U, Order No. 1 in 26-033-U) The Commission's consolidated order across all three Strategic Investment dockets (Ironwood / LC5, Jefferson / JPS, Cypress) and the new Docket **26-033-U**. **Establishes the Independent Monitor (IM) oversight regime for all three plants and consolidates the IM-proposal review into one new docket.** ## Key takeaways - The Commission previously ordered EAL to file proposals for Independent Monitors to oversee construction of LC5, JPS, and Cypress. - This order **consolidates the IM-proposal review into Docket 26-033-U**. - Staff, AG, and Intervenors must file responses and recommend IM candidates by **2026-05-08**; EAL responds by **2026-05-22**. - Only Parties with full intervention status in 24-072-U, 25-047-U, or 25-054-U may file in 26-033-U. - The Commission **amends the IM scope to include appearing before the Commission as a witness and providing written testimony and exhibits**. - Signed 2026-04-24 by [[Doyle Webb]], [[Justin Tate]], [[Katie Anderson]]; [[Karen Shook]] (Secretary) on the certificate of service. ## Cross-references - See the [[docket-25-054-u-cypress-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 25-054-U production overview]] for context. - This order is the trigger for the new **Docket 26-033-U**, now active — its docket summary is archived (see Update). ## Update (2026-05-29): Docket 26-033-U is active The consolidated Independent Monitor docket is now live; its docket summary was archived 2026-05-29 ([APSC OLS docket 26-033-U](../../../web%20archive/2026-05-29/apps.apsc.arkansas.gov/docket-26-033-u.md)). On the record so far: **Order No. 1** (2026-04-24) consolidated the LC5/JPS/Cypress IM proposals; **Order No. 2** designated ALJ **Justin Craig**; [[Jeffrey D. Bower]] (Staff) filed direct testimony (redacted 2026-05-08, unredacted 2026-05-13); [[Scott Norwood]] (AG) filed responsive testimony (2026-05-08); **Order No. 3** (Craig, 2026-05-12) granted Entergy's protective-order motion on an interim basis; and Entergy filed its reply on 2026-05-27. The underlying testimony/order PDFs are **not yet ingested as a Tier-1 production** (a flagged follow-on; the OLS document binaries were not retrievable via available tooling this pass). ## Open questions / follow-ups - Full Tier-1 ingestion of the 26-033-U filings ([[Jeffrey D. Bower|Bower's]] direct testimony and the three orders) — the docket summary is captured, but the document PDFs remain to be pulled into `raw/psc/docket-26-033-u-…/`.