Step 1: Contextual Framework Pass (Facts)

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Facts:
Engineer A, the town engineer, and Engineer B, a consulting engineer retained by the town council, collaborated on an assignment to make studies and determine final contours for an existing sanitary landfill, taking into account final land use, environmental concerns, surrounding land use, and topography.
Engineers A and B jointly determine that the existing landfill space will be exhausted at present rate of use in three years, or soon thereafter.
The town council had sought an alternate disposal location, but had not been able to locate one.
It then requested Engineers A and B to submit new designs for the existing site at higher final contours in accordance with state environmental laws.
After several redesigns were not accepted, the town council requested Engineers A and B to prepare a new design which resulted in an accepted solution, incorporating minimum setbacks and maximum allowable slopes.
This design would provide for a hill more than 100 feet higher than originally proposed.
Engineer C, a resident of the town, publicly contends that the higher level design concept would be environmentally unsound because methane gas from the landfill would move into adjacent private property and that it would pollute the nearby ground water.
The issue stirred up considerable local publicity and controversy.
Engineer C has publicly questioned whether Engineers A and B should have agreed to the higher intensity use of the site.