Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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security side of our house. But just so that you
know, and Suman and some of the others are very
familiar with this process who work with us, that we
cannot move forward to build, to construct, to do
anything, to spend any money on that portion of the
project, until this certification is approved and
sent to the congress. I'm just letting you know the
number of hands and entities that are involved in
our business.
So now you see two things. We cannot
purchase a site or move forward on one without
congressional approval, and we cannot build in any
city with a classified component without the
approval of the drawings and the certification of
the Congress.
The on-site supervision team is put in
place and we have protocols about that. It's always
led by an American. And that individual is selected
and he or she has a team of other Americans and some
qualified third country nationals or host country.
The notice to proceed for the design build
team or the construction team, if it's a design
build bill, is a methodical process. We have a
protocol that allows that to take place. And then
the project about somewhere between 97 and 98
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