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Upgrading of N1 Highway Between Tetteh Quarshie Interchange and Mallam Road Junction, Accra, Ghana.Resettlement Action Plan (RAP), Lot 28.1 REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF COMPENSATION ASSESSMENTThe review of compensation values assessment involves the following steps:LVB will undertake assessment of Property Impact and Valuation for Section 1 and will submit areport to the LVB board for approval within 16 days. LVB will submit the Assessment andCompensation Report to MiDA and will have one week to produce offer letters for PAPs inSection 1. Completion of works in Section 1 is very critical to the rest of the works on the roadcorridor. To enable work to commence in section 1 early, LVB would reference, value andsubmit property impact and valuation report in this section first, before they move to the nextsections.The Property Impact and Valuation Report for Section 2 will follow the same process but LVBwill have 30 days for assessment. The remaining three sections will be assessed in a singlereport. LVB will have 40 days to review and report on Section 3, Section 4 and Section 5. (Fordetails refer to the attached GANTT Chart for implementation.)8.2 ISSUANCE OF OFFER LETTERS TO PROPERTY OWNERSAs regards compensation for permanent structures, LVB will within five (5) days of submittingthe Assessment and Compensation Report to MiDA, issue offer letters to claimants for whichthey are allowed twenty-one (21) days to accept or reject the offer. The letters will be deliveredto MiDA who will forward them to ICT-BANS. ICT-BANS will add negotiation forms to the lettersand detail their negotiators to deliver them to the PAPS concerned. ICT-BANS will thencommunicate to MiDA the accepted offers. MiDA will then forward to its Fiscal Agent the list ofaccepted claims.On the other hand, if a claimant rejects the LVB offer, he/she is permitted to engage theservices of a private valuer to enter into a process of negotiation with LVB. When the twoparties reach a compromise, LVB will then issue another offer letter based on the agreed terms.MiDA’s Fiscal Agent will then prepare payment vouchers and checks (cheques) for propertyowners and pay them accordingly. PAPs in this category are:Owners of permanent structures: they will receive compensation for demolished structures orcivil improvements. 213 house / structure owners will be compensated for their losses. Detailedtreatment of compensation types, supplemental assistance types and payment periods, hasbeen discussed in section 6.4.76