The accord signed in Casa de Campo in La Romana on 5 February between the major players in the electricity sector and government officials, and in the presence of representatives of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank is causing concern at the World Bank. These worries, in turn, have led to a hold-up in the first disbursement of US$50 million aimed at shoring up the electricity sector. These funds are part of a fast disbursement US$150 million loan from the World Bank. The problem centers around the fact that the agreement signed at the beginning of this month was to have brought about a consolidation of the pending debts and establish a payment program for the debts within a week of its signing. This has not happened. Supposedly, two weeks after the consolidation and the payment programs were set, a Plan of Action for 2006 was to be signed, and this, too, has not occurred. The first disbursement was supposed to have taken place in December 2005, but without a payment schedule for the debt with the electricity sector, it remains pending.