Program Review Board (PRB) Meeting Minutes - 29 Jul 03

Program Review Board (PRB) Meeting Minutes - 29 Jul 03 *Peter McPherson Attendees: Economic Dev Sherri Kraham PRB, Director CIC *Amb. Marek Belka CPA-C8 Col Paul Hough Cmdr Ken Nations CPA - Deputy C8 Col. Tony Bell HCA, CPA-CA MONS&D *Walt Slocombe DCG CJTF-7 Freddy Yigg Chair *Dave Oliver *Chris Milligan USAID Al Runnels CFO Scott Brown IMF Staff Observer Scott Castle General Counsel Walker Lee Evey Min of Housing & Construction Min of Trade/ Oil-For-Food Jessye LaPenn * Voting Member 1. Minutes distributed prior to start of meeting. Oliver: Minutes approved 2. Status of Funds: Al Runnels: the $683M vested funds still under temporary restraining order Programming a commitment against the funds. Contacted Washington expressing need for portion of funds. Amb Bremer to start September payments, money positioned 10 days prior. Bottomline: S3B now $2.5B, $250M nerve funds already committed by Natural Resources Remediation Fund not disbursed. Still very close, $200M to play with through December. Oil revenues starting to come in, approximately $140M came in within five (5) days. Oliver: Amb. Bremer slid investment for Central Bank into next fiscal year, have to go supplemental. 3. Funding Request # 140 & 141, 2 water treatment plants. Oliver: Previously approved $200,000 project in Baghdad. Reallocate funds. Request approval from board to take $200,000 from CPA approved project, transfer from PRB# 140 to PRB# 141. Wants everyone to know what is going on. Castle: Does not have to come before board as matter of law. 4. Funding Request #400, Witness Protection. Oliver: Provide protection to witness and her family. No witness protection plan in place. Private security; request $200,000 for witness. Estimated cost $300,000, will come back and ask for more, depending on how long she remains in country. Slocombe: Issue of precedence. There will be others, Ministry of Justice needs to put together a plan for future cases. Oliver: Will work with Ministry of Justice to get something in place. Request approved 5. Funding Request #399, Oil Infrastructure, $300,000,000. Gary Vogler: Various projects included. Pipeline crossing Tigris River, 50km, S172M from Kirkuk to Bayji. Pipeline heavily corroded in many areas. Build separate pipeline bridge. Replace pipeline at Kirkuk Field. Backup generator, approximately S5OM. Capital projects for Ministry of Oil, $78M, primarily half dinar/ half dollars. Needed to support activities in the restoration of oil infrastructure for the country. KBR has budget well-over $1B, specific projects being worked. Oil ministry working hand-in-hand, not part of KBR scope. Slocombe: is this over and above $1.2B already approved. Yes. Oliver: Planned to use bridge going across river and hang pipeline underneath, because they thought roads and bridges would prioritize. Roads and bridges did not include in budget. Not in RIO plan, pipeline going north. Vogler: Bringing generators in within next 60 days. LPG has highest priority, hopefully within 3 weeks. Oliver: Rent instead of buy, payback leads to approximately S45M (southern fields) Slocombe: Better investment, rate of retum higher. Oliver: About order of magnitude of what to put down in capital to cover the rest of the year. RIO responsible for restoring. Request approved. 6. Funding Request #398, Ministry of Interior Police Equipment, S120M, from DFI funds. Kraham: What is needed for remainder of year, isolated for current funding request. Training equipment and center, equipment for workers, additional uniforms, other crowd control equipment, vehicle (first installation), weapons. Request based on info from different governorates, circulated through-out country. Runnels: outfitting Iraqi police force to US standards. Oliver: Does the CPA send a message, with such a dishonest and fraud-ridden police department. Aren't we saying this is really important and sends a message to the people of what we desire. Need to give the people the best we have. Easier to get what you want with better equipment. Slocombe: Question of doing training in Hungary or Iraq, has a lot to be said. Will send a lot of soldiers outside of Iraq for training. Oliver: Look at cost of AK47s among other things. Get different guys in place. Kraham: Within ministry budget. Voting in ratification. Request approved.