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prima:Federal bureaucracy hinders post Hurricane María reconstruction

The island has a list of more than 3,500 projects that have not started or are in the planning, design, or permitting stages.

March 20, 2023 - 1:06 PM

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The main risk of delay in construction work is the return of FEMA assigned funds, which could lead to some of of the projects to never materialize or be left unfinished. (Jorge A Ramirez Portela) (Jorge A. Ramírez Portela)

A little more than five years after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has only disbursed 4.92 percent of the total cost of 8,611 recovery projects or $1.232 billion out of a total of $25.054 billion.

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