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Hi Noel,
Thank you for sharing the information. Just trying to keep you informed from our end.
The Miami meeting sounds fascinating! On that topic I passed by the wind farm today near Roosevelt Roads. I
can't believe the blades broke off. We traveled from Salinas around to Fajardo and back to San Juan. We
stopped in at the Guayama and AES Coal plant. They both have generation and are waiting for the transmission
lines to be established.
There is a lot of work to do and the mountains are going to be a challenge. There were, however, many crews
out today, including helos flying transmission line and heavy equipment uprighting transmission towers. They
are out working. And you are right, this will be expensive.
I am glad the FEMA/FOMB relationship is well received, as we are working toward the same goal.
Our legal team is best in DC. I will check with HQ on and other offices that might be good. I am thinking
Keith Turk, Assoc Administrator for Recovery. Let me call him tomorrow.
Safe travels and let's stay in touch.
Best,
AT

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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:04:53 PM
To: Tribble, Ahsha
Subject: Re: FYSA

Ahsha,
Thanks for the info. I passed it along to Natalie.
Up in Miami for the CREF (Caribbean Renewables Energy Forum). Tons of interest in PR as you can imagine.
I’ve fielded several calls today from folks who want to integrate into near and mid term efforts. We could
integrate them into planning but it may be a better fit for the reconstruction efforts and cost estimate
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 development that FEMA would be working. If you don’t mind, I can make the intros (the two important ones
are Tesla for near term “generator substitution” and GE for T&D engineering work).
The congressional testimony for Tuesday was postponed to November. Chairman Bishop may have Natalie and
I just go to his office instead. I still plan on visiting your FEMA legal team, and the calendar has opened up
considerably. Let me know if there is anyone else I could engage.
FWIW, I spoke to the staffer who was running this testimony session and told him about the FEMA / FOMB
connection, and some of the concerns we share about rebuilding the grid without a long term operations
plan. He was ecstatic.
More to follow - hope your trip today was useful. I’d really like to hear your thoughts on the status of the
island. PREP As estimate of 1.38B for electric grid recovery I believe is off by a factor of almost 5.
Best,
Noel
Noel Zamot

Revitalization Coordinator
Federal Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico
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On Oct 19, 2017, at 9:34 AM, Tribble, Ahsha

wrote:

Good morning Noel,
In order for Puerto Rico to remain eligible for Advance of Non-Federal Share loans that
Congress is poised to fund in the current supplemental, it needs to make it loan payments on
time.
PR is current on its payment plan but it's monthly payment of $141K is due by October 31.
This is likely of interest to the Board.
By the way, I am doing power infrastructure assessments on the east side of the island today so I
will have very limited comms today.
Hope the WH meetings go well today.
Best,
AT

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