The contract signed between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and Montana-based company Whitefish Energy Holdings provides generous compensation to all Whitefish and subcontracted personnel on assignment in Puerto Rico.

According to the contract annexes, which PREPA personnel made available to NotiCel, the rates for Whitefish resources are divided in three categories: administrative personnel and general contractors, field workers and equipment, and work supplies. These categories, which are included in the contract as the 'Bid Schedule', are also included in another identical document, except for the higher subcontractor rates.For example, the hourly rate for Whitefish employees is $330 for a 'Site Supervisor', $440 for a 'Sr Project Accountant', and $204 for mechanics.As for Whitefish subcontractors, a 'Site Supervisor' would earn $462 per hour, a 'Sr Project Accountant' would earn $616 per hour, and a mechanic would earn $286.37.Furthermore, both Whitefish employees and their subcontractors are paid a daily allowance of $79.82 for food and $332.41 for lodging. They are also paid $4.90 per gas gallon, $4.48 for diesel, and $1,000 for one-way flights.These costs do not include any expenses incurred in clearing out Whitefish personnel as soon as the work is done. These expenses would be billed afterwards.PREPA will directly assume these expenses after the contracting company sends the invoice. The contract prohibits advance payments to Whitefish for services not yet rendered.The payable amount may be negotiated between PREPA and the contracting company. However, PREPA's press official, Carlos Monroig, told us that, so far, PREPA has not amended the terms of the contract, so it has been upheld as signed on October 17.The agreement with Whitefish was initially established on September 26, according to the emergency proposals accepted by the Authority. The original terms of the contract provided for a payment of $3,700,000 to move the company's personnel and equipment to the island. However, the contract has a maximum cap of $300,000,000 and will be effective for 12 months.Nonetheless, the contract cap may be lifted if allowed by PREPA, and it can be extended for an additional 12 months.PREPA trusts that most of the costs in this contract will be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which to date has allotted $128,000,000 to the public corporation to cover recovery efforts for the electrical system. This is added to the $213,000,000 granted by FEMA to the local government for other emergency tasks.See the document below:[naviga:img embed-content-articleid='644326392' embed-content-groupid='593030471' embed-content-id='644326392' embed-content-imgalign='none' embed-content-index='0' embed-content-type='FILE' height='240px' src='' style='width:100%;' width='360px' /]