In April 1995 STEP was faced with the problem of meeting an impossible deadline. We had been using files previously developed in MicroStation to produce 8.5" x 11" maps used in NEPA documents. This was a very large project funded by the Army and the deadlines seemed to always have a crisis associated with them. At this point we had two weeks to meet our deadline. I had purchased a copy of ArcCAD and ArcView I a few months prior. They were still in the box. Since MicroStation could not provide us a way to meet the deadline, we all agreed to try ArcView. We had the data in a spreadsheet, so we began to develop coverages on our only copy of ArcCAD. We used the coverages developed in ArcCAD to create the map figures in ArcView. Although, we ran into a large number of problems using this approach we did meet our deadline. STEP has evolved from ArcCAD and ArcView I running on P-5 60's in a Windows for Work Groups environment to using ArcView 2a for map figure production and ArcInfo for coverage production running on Silicon Graphics Indy's in an NFS environment. We are currently producing 1600 maps monthly.