The public will have access to three privately-run resorts at Lake Berryessa this summer, though one will offer only limited services.

The federal agency that manages Lake Berryessa has signed interim contracts with concessionaires of two lakeshore resorts scheduled to close this summer, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. A third privately-run resort, Pleasure Cove Marina, continues to operate under a long-term contract signed in December. Four others remain closed for the second summer.

Mike Finnegan, area manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, said he signed the two interim contracts with the current concessionaires of Markley Cove and Steele Park on Tuesday.

Markley Cove’s concessionaires, who had been selected last year to negotiate a long-term contract to run the resort, received a two-year interim contract, according to the Bureau. Steele Park’s concessionaire negotiated an interim contract that that ends in Oct. 31.

In addition, the Bureau of Reclamation also expects to sign next week an interim contract to run a primitive campground with 75 campsites at Oaks Shores with Arizona-based Forever Resorts, Finnegan said.

The Bureau is also modifying the long-term contract signed last December with Forever Resorts to run Pleasure Cove Marina, a facility on the southern tip of the lake, after the federal agency found errors in its original bidding documents.

“I think we’re making good progress,” Finnegan said Friday.

The Bureau of Reclamation, which owns the land, signed the interim contracts while it seeks a new round of bids to run the lake’s six resorts — at the exception of Pleasure Cove Marina. The bids are due Aug. 14. The Bureau of Reclamation will show the resorts to prospective bidders Wednesday and Thursday, Finnegan said. The agency’s goal is to award the long-term contracts by the end of the year, he said.

In an e-mail Wednesday, Terry Sparkman, regional general manager for Forever Resorts, the company that runs Pleasure Cove Marina, said his company is working off the long-term contract that went into effect on Jan. 1.

Markley Cove and Pleasure Cove offer services that ranges from boat launching to picnicking.

Steele Park will only offer limited services this summer. The resort near Berryessa Highlands, has 55 RV spots for overnight camping, boat launching, but no day-use activities such as barbecue picnicking or other day use activities. The store is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., said David Hanson, the marina manager.

The agency canceled negotiations with the Pensus Group to run five resorts, including Steele Park, and with John and Linda Frazier to run Markley Cove, a facility they have run for years.

The makeover of Lake Berryessa began three years ago, after the federal agency decided to remove about 1,400 mobile homes from the lakeshore as each long-term contracts with concessionaires began to expire. Lake Berryessa’s business community, mobile home owners and others decried the agency’s decision and subsequent actions to close the resorts.

The Bureau of Reclamation was subsequently sued in state and federal courts. One issue was the reimbursements to concessionaires for the improvements made over the years, including water and sewer plants and roads. The Bureau’s position is that the improvements belong to the former concessionaires and should be removed.

Bob White, who used to run Rancho Monticello, questions why the Bureau is forcing him and other concessionaires to remove the improvements.

“All they’ve done is destroy access (to the lake),” he said of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Peter Kilkus, president of the Lake Berryessa Chamber of Commerce, has said repeatedly that the resorts cannot be financially viable without income from the owners of the mobile homes. He and others have also questioned the Bureau’s fairness.

“With respect to business and the community, everything is very bad at the lake. We are struggling to survive and need every visitor of any kind that we can get,” he wrote in an e-mail on Saturday.

Public facilities that are open this summer include the boat-launch ramp at Capell Cove and day-use areas at Oak Shores, Smittle Creek and Eticuera Creek.