P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 8003a
(a) The Advisory Council for the National Digitized Environmental Information System is hereby established, to be attached to the Environmental Quality Board.
(b) The Council shall be presided by the Chair of the Environmental Quality Board and be composed, furthermore, by one representative from each of the following government and non-government bodies entirely or partially engaged in generating or receiving technical, educational, and scientific information about subjects relative to the environment and the natural resources: the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, the Planning Board, the Department of Agriculture, the University of Puerto Rico, and one representative from non-government environmental groups. The latter representative shall be appointed by the Chair of the Environmental Quality Board, which appointment shall have a term of two years.
Representatives from each of private university systems accredited by the Council on Higher Education, which offer degrees in natural and environmental sciences, shall also be a part of the Advisory Council. The Chair of the Environmental Quality Board shall request that each of these institutions designate a member and an alternate member to represent them in the Advisory Council.
(c) None of the members of the Council shall receive salaries, per diems or similar compensations on account of their Council membership; except for the representative of environmental groups, who shall earn o account of per diems the amount of seventy-five dollars ($75) for each day he/she discharges his/her functions as an active member. However, the time devoted to the works of the Council may be considered as part of the tasks and tour of duty of its members.
History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 24, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.