P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 8002
The Chair of the Environmental Quality Board shall render before the Legislature and the Governor, a yearly report on environmental quality (hereinafter, the “report”), stating:
(1) The status and condition of Puerto Rico’s environment, including, but not limited to: air quality, water quality (including freshwater, saltwater or lake water; sources and nature of agents discharged into bodies of water; drinking water sources; and management plans for watersheds, and the progress attained in their application) and the soil environment (including, but not limited to solid waste management and disposal; woodlands, dry lands, wetlands, croplands; and urban, suburban and rural environments);
(2) the current trends as to environmental quality, management and utilization and the effects of such trends on Puerto Rico’s requirements of a social, economic or other order;
(3) the sufficiency of available natural resources to meet Puerto Rico’s human and economic requirements in light of the pressures from the expected population;
(4) the reviewing of programs and activities (including regulatory activities) of the federal government, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and its agencies and municipalities, as well as non-government organizations or persons, especially in connection with their effect on the environment and on natural resource conservation, development and employment, and
(5) a program to remedy the shortcomings of existing programs and activities, together with recommendations for legislation.
The report shall be submitted before the Legislature and the Governor on or before July 1 of each year; the same shall cover the environmental status at the closing of the preceding calendar year. The Environmental Quality Board shall be empowered to adopt, promulgate, amend and repeal regulations as it may deem necessary in order to meet the requirements established in this section.
History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 6, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.