§2214 Miscellaneous provisions

Summary

Within 60 days after the Revitalization Coordinator is named, an Interagency Environmental Subcommittee must be created to review environmental paperwork for any Critical Project that is in the Coordinator’s Expedited Permitting Process. The Subcommittee includes the Revitalization Coordinator and a person chosen by the Governor for each of these agencies: the Environmental Quality Board, the Planning Board, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, and any other Puerto Rico agency the Coordinator finds relevant. For Critical Projects, Puerto Rico agencies must act like the Governor has declared an emergency under Act 76, section 2, and section 12 of Act 76 does not apply. Work needed for a Critical Project keeps moving under the expedited process even if the Oversight Board ends. A project sponsor can write to the Oversight Board if an agency or the Coordinator fails to follow the expedited process. The Oversight Board can order compliance and use enforcement powers. The Governor must send any new law each fiscal year that could affect the expedited process to the Oversight Board, which will review it and can declare it inconsistent with the Fiscal Plan if it would hurt the process. Agencies may not add optional terms to permits or leases that the Coordinator says would slow a Critical Project, and the Coordinator can ask for optional terms that would help the project move faster. All Critical Project reports and the reasons for approving or denying Critical Project status must be posted online within 5 days.