In November 2004, the Executive Vice President of IFC requested that CAO audit IFC’s environmental categorization of the Amaggi Expansion Project. During the IFC’s project review process, the Amaggi Expansion was categorized with a Category B rating as opposed to a Category A rating, which signifies the potential for significant adverse environmental impacts. In contrast, a project is assigned to Category B if ‘if its potential adverse environmental impacts on human populations or environmentally important areas. . . .are less adverse than those of Category A projects’. Various community organizations considered the project ought to have been categorized as Category A due to possible ‘sensitive, diverse or unprecedented adverse’ environmental consequences.