§2214 Miscellaneous Provisions

Summary

Set up an Interagency Environmental Subcommittee within 60 days after the Revitalization Coordinator is named. The subcommittee will check the environmental paperwork needed under Puerto Rico law for any Critical Project in the fast permit system. It will include the Revitalization Coordinator and one person chosen by the Governor from each of these bodies: the Environmental Quality Board, the Planning Board, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, and any other Puerto Rico agency the Coordinator says is needed. For work tied only to a Critical Project, Puerto Rico agencies must act as if the Governor declared an emergency under section 2 of Act 76 (3 L.P.R.A. 1932). Section 12 of Act 76 (3 L.P.R.A. 1942) does not apply to Critical Projects. Steps needed to finish a Critical Project must keep moving under the fast permit process even if the Oversight Board ends under section 2149. A project sponsor can tell the Oversight Board in writing if an agency or the Coordinator breaks the fast process. If the Oversight Board finds a failure, it will order compliance and can enforce it under section 2124(l). The Governor must send any new law that could affect the fast process to the Oversight Board under section 2144(a); the Board will quickly check if the law hurts the process and may call it inconsistent with the Fiscal Plan. Puerto Rico agencies cannot add optional terms to permits, leases, or other approvals that the Coordinator says would slow or block a Critical Project, and the Coordinator can ask for optional terms that would speed a project. All Critical Project reports and the reasons to approve or deny Critical Project status must be posted online within 5 days of getting them or finishing them.