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 II - Environmental Quality Board (§§ 8002 — 8002p) › § 8002p - Appropriation of funds

(a) The amounts necessary to meet the purposes of this chapter for the current fiscal year and for subsequent fiscal years shall be annually consigned in the General Expenses Budget Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) All moneys received by the Environmental Quality Board in the discharge of its duty to implement this chapter, from sources specified therein and from any other sources, as well as all civil and criminal fines imposed by the General Court of Justice of Puerto Rico under the provisions of this chapter, shall be covered into a special account, to be denominated “Special Account Set For the Environmental Quality Board”; except for moneys that are to be covered into the Special Account Set For the Voluntary Property Cleanup and Redevelopment Program, the Special Account Set for the Air Operation Permit Program or the Environmental Emergency Fund.
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Board the moneys covered into the Special Account Set For the Environmental Quality Board by means of disbursements authorized or signed by the Chair of the Board. These funds may be used by the Board for any necessary actions, to develop projects for the benefit of the environment, to make contributions to the Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Environmental Trust Fund created under Subchapter V of this chapter or to the Environmental Emergency Fund created under Subchapter IV of this chapter or to other funds administered by the Board, to carry out any activities to discharge its duties and responsibilities, to defray any nonrecurring operating expenses, training, acquisition of equipment and supplies, contracting of experts and attorneys, and for any other purposes that promote the accomplishment of the objectives of this chapter.
(d) The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Environmental Quality Board the moneys deposited in the Special Account Set For the Air Operation Permit Program by means of disbursements authorized or signed by the Chair of the Environmental Quality Board.
(e) The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Board the moneys deposited into the Special Account Set For the Voluntary Property Cleanup and Redevelopment Program by means of disbursements authorized or signed by the Chair of the Board.
(f) The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Board the moneys deposited into the Environmental Emergency Fund by means of disbursements authorized or signed by the Chair of the Board.
(g) The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to advance to the Environmental Quality Board the amounts for reimbursements to be made by the United States Government in the proportion provided for by law, after presenting the documents that attest to the approval of each project by the corresponding authorities of said Government.
History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 416, § 22, eff. 6 months after Sept. 22, 2004.