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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Abril-Rivera v. Johnson, 806 F.3d 599 (2015)

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Abril-Rivera v. Johnson, 806 F.3d 599 (2015)
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Abril-Rivera v. Johnson, 806 F.3d 599 (2015)
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2015-11-17

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In June 2007, FEMA’s Occupational, Safety & Health Office conducted a Management Evaluation and Technical Assistance Review (METAR) of the PR-NPSC facility.2 The METAR disclosed several “serious deficiencies,” including, for example, a lack of exit signs at several locations in the facility and the absence of “[i]nitial safety orientation training.” Several of the deficiencies were rated as “[s]ignificant risk[s] to health and safety” for which “abatement measures should be initiated within 30 days.” The management of the Puerto Rico center responded with a memorandum acknowledging receipt of the report and explaining the steps that the PR-NPSC had taken and would take to begin to rectify the deficiencies. By May 2008, management represented that it had addressed the major issues identified on the METAR save one: the construction of an egress route around the building.3 Management was still concerned about the physical facility and particularly fire hazards.