P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 8003c
(a) Any agency, office, instrumentality, public corporation or municipality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that receives or conducts research, studies or works of a scientific nature on the environment and the natural resources, shall remit a copy of such research, studies or works to the Environmental Quality Board.
(b) Students conducting works, studies or research on subjects relative to the environment and the natural resources that are a part of the requisites to obtain a degree (theses or thesis papers), shall be requested by the pertinent university authority to voluntarily furnish a copy of such thesis or thesis paper so that the same may be incorporated into the System.
(c) As for natural or juridical persons conducting research, studies or works of a scientific nature on the environment or the natural resources not destined to a public record or purpose, who are System users, System operators shall maintain a request addressed to such persons so that they may voluntarily submit a copy of such research, studies or works for the System.
(d) All copies shall be submitted in such format as the Chair of the Environmental Quality Board may define as adequate for the configuration of the National Digitized Environmental Information System, in an adequate electronic reproduction medium, so as to render the same accessible to all persons interested through electronic networks in existence or to be created.
(e) The various public institutions that, as part of their ministerial duty, are engaged in generating or receiving technical, educational, and scientific information about the environment and the natural resources, shall remit to the Environmental Quality Board a copy of studies, research and works of a scientific nature on such subjects as they have on file up to the present in electronic format, or establish with the latter agency such agreements as necessary in order for such information to be made accessible through the System by means of the necessary electronic links.
(f) As for federal agencies and instrumentalities operating in Puerto Rico which generate or receive information of a scientific nature about the environment and the natural resources, the Chair of the Environmental Quality Board shall request, under the same conditions as dependencies of the Commonwealth, that they remit copies of such information, or establish with these agencies such agreements as necessary in order for such information to be made accessible through the System by means of the necessary electronic links.
History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 26, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.