2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWELVE - Conservation (§§ 1-16 — 8162) › Subtitle 8 - Environment II (§§ 8001 — 8162) › Chapter 501 - Environmental Public Policy (§§ 8001 — 8007f) › Subchapter VI - Pollution Prevention Program (§§ 8006 — 8006j) › § 8006e - Functions and duties

The Pollution Prevention Program (P2) of the Solid Waste Authority shall have the following powers and duties:
(1) To educate and offer technical assistance to our people in connection with methods to prevent and reduce pollution at its source of origin.
(2) To identify opportunities, operations, and activities in which pollution can be controlled at the source.
(3) To prepare an inventory of the ways known to reduce or prevent pollution.
(4) To promote the use of ways available to prevent pollution and the development through research of new methods to prevent and reduce at the source.
(5) To prepare and implement plans and programs to prevent and reduce pollution at its source of origin.
(6) To foster the use of products designed to eliminate or reuse the generation of waste at the source.
(7) To promote the reduction of raw materials in the packaging of products by manufacturers.
(8) To recommend that the Environmental Quality Board adopt, amend or repeal rules and regulations to establish requirements in order to promote the achievement of the following:
(a) To increase energy efficiency and conservation.
(b) To implement, at any stage of a process, techniques which minimize or eliminate pollution.
(c) To maintain a control over the inventories of materials, of both raw materials and solid waste.
(d) To engage in good cleaning practices at workplaces.
(e) To train employees in the reduction of pollutant generation.
(f) To establish practices for pollution prevention at the source.
(g) To submit reports or data on pollutant generation.
(h) To take into account pollution prevention and reduction factors when granting permits, franchises, endorsements or authorizations and when amending regulations.
(9) To integrate and harmonize programs, studies, activities and efforts by the business sector, the government, and civil organizations in publishing and offering guidance regarding the methods to control pollution at its source.
(10) To stimulate the participation of the entire communications media in educational efforts programmed by the government and the general public.
(11) Offer guidance to the public about products containing pollutants and substitutes therefor.
(12) To require the publication of all efforts, laws, regulations, and research in existence on pollution prevention.
(13) To promote educational conferences and the publication of material for government and private offices on methods to prevent pollution.
(14) To identify and make recommendations to the Legislature to eliminate any hindrances to pollution reduction at the source of origin, including the use of incentives or sanctions.
(15) To develop, validate and publish auditing procedures designed to identify opportunities to reduce pollution at the source of origin, in coordination with the Environmental Quality Board.
(16) To identify pollutant-generating industries, businesses, and government offices that require assistance to develop programs to reduce pollution at the source of origin, in coordination with the Environmental Quality Board.
(17) To incorporate measures to prevent and reduce pollution at the source of origin into the educational program for public and private schools.
(18) To execute agreements with other public or private entities for the enforcement of this chapter or the regulations adopted thereunder.
History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 57, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.