Emenda 4 de mitigação: Habitação conserva projetos cobertos e a avaliação de riscos

To close the lot in the slot of September 16, 2026, Borinquen files a second specific primary of the Housing portal: the Substantial Amendment 4 to the CDBG-MIT Action Plan, published on August 2, 2024 and described as the final version approved by HUD on August 1, 2024. It is a mitigation program distinct from the CDBG-DR recovery covered in note 817. The historical date is declared upfront; a 2026 publication is not fabricated.

The record links a main plan of 33.09 MB and annexes that include the Puerto Rico Hazard Risk Assessment, research and GIS bibliographies, a proposed mitigation project log, stakeholder participation report, and projections of expenditures and outcomes. That documentation reflects that mitigation must connect risk, project selection, and future benefit. It does not demonstrate that a projection became an actual expenditure or that a proposed project received final authorization.

Four groups of documents highlight covered projects: segments II, III, IV, and V of PR-10; improvements to the water system in the southern region known as Bauta; seismic retrofit of the Patillas Dam; and the ASEM Trauma Center. The page lists projected outcomes for each. It also links to a benefit-cost analysis and description of PR-10, a narrative of the Trauma Center, and a FEMA BCA for that facility. Naming a project in the plan does not equate to an executed contract.

For Bauta and Patillas there are analyses or narratives and preliminary operation and maintenance forms; there are also some for PR-10 and the Trauma Center. The word “preliminary” matters. A preliminary O&M plan documents how it is intended to sustain an asset, it does not certify its construction or final budget. The form does not show in the visible text the amount of each covered project, the award, the obligations, drawdowns, change orders, physical percentage, or completion date.

The portal also includes public comments and responses from Housing, annexes with projects from the governor's office, and a table of PR-10 beneficiaries. Those files serve different functions: participation, inventory, justification, and projection. A beneficiary table can model the favored population, but it is not a list of people who received funds. A proposed project log is also not a ledger. The audit requires keeping those labels to avoid inflating mitigation results.

CDBG-MIT seeks to reduce future risks and losses, while CDBG-DR addresses eligible disaster recovery; in practice, both can involve infrastructure, housing, and planning. That closeness increases the risk of mixing figures. Amendment 4 must be followed according to its grant, activity, subrecipient, agreement, and drawdown. That HUD approved the Action Plan establishes a permitted framework, not that HUD would pay contractors directly or that Housing would disburse all allocations.

The 2024 sheet also serves as a baseline against later drafts. A revised draft of another amendment should not be presented as an effective version until the page confirms approval. Here it does state “Final version approved by HUD” and the date. What is missing is a summarized financial reconciliation. The next journalistic step is to compare the attached projections with expense reports, results, and procurement by PR-10, Bauta, Patillas, and ASEM.

Filing CDBG-MIT along with CDBG-DR avoids a frequent confusion in Puerto Rico's recovery: mitigation and recovery can share infrastructure, but they operate with different grants, plans, and projections. PR-10, Bauta, Patillas, and ASEM appear here as projects documented in annexes; their money must be looked for later in agreements and drawdowns. Meanwhile, the primary establishes the framework approved by HUD on August 1, 2024.

Caveat: Approval of the Action Plan ≠ project award ≠ obligation ≠ drawdown ≠ completed work. “Proposed,” “projection,” and “preliminary” retain their meaning. The sheet does not summarize amounts by project or physical progress, so unverified figures are omitted and the gap is recorded. Source Housing 2024-08-02, effective 2024-08-01; historical peg in slot 2026-09-16.