P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 8004e
(a) The Environmental Quality Board shall establish a program to adequately respond to and manage environmental emergencies and the necessary remedial actions in contaminated sites. The Environmental Quality Board shall be the leading agency in responding to this kind of emergencies. All matters concerning environmental emergency response planning shall be the responsibility of the Commonwealth Commission. The funds and resources necessary to maintain such program operating shall be solicited and consigned in the agency’s operating expenses budget.
(b) The Commonwealth Emergency and Natural Disaster Management Agency and all other agencies, departments, municipalities, and public corporations and instrumentalities shall provide the Board with all the assistance necessary in order to promptly and adequately respond to environmental emergencies, coordinate their respective emergency plan with the latter, and execute collaboration agreements as pertinent.
History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 36, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.