Step 1: Contextual Framework Pass (Facts)

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Facts:
Engineer A is a principal in an environmental engineering firm and is requested by a developer client to prepare an analysis of a piece of property adjacent to a wetlands area for potential development as a residential condominium.
During the firm’s analysis, one of the engineering firm’s biologists reports to Engineer A that in his opinion, the condominium project could threaten a bird species that inhabits the adjacent protected wetlands area.
The bird species in not an “endangered species,” but it is considered a “threatened species” by federal and state environmental regulators.
In subsequent discussions with the developer client, Engineer A verbally mentions the concern, but Engineer A does not include the information in a written report that will be submitted to a public authority that is considering the developer’s proposal.