Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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personally make a visit to each one of the sites.
If I am unable to go, Joe will go for me and we walk
the entire site from the standpoint of just making
certain that everybody who is going to live and work
there are comfortable. We don't get involved in the
accreditation processes or any of that. We just
walk the site and make certain that yes, it is in
fact here and everybody's comfortable. Generally,
the furnishings and that type of thing is all in
place by that time.
And then a certificate of occupancy, if
it's not already been issued, is issued and then the
post may move in. Now the accreditation process is
generally, the allocated time, is about 60 days
between substantial completion until we reach that
point.
Our contractors work along with us. We're
dealing with punch lists during that period of time.
We're tidying things up. We're getting things
right. Sometimes we have to do a few things over
and correct those things. Nothing unusual about
that. Anybody who has been around construction for
about 15 minutes knows that. So it's not an issue.
And then of course, there is a formal
turnover process where we literally take the project
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