CNMI Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality administrator Frank Rabauliman commended Friday the efforts of some House representatives in cleaning up Garapan.<\/p>\n
Rabauliman thanked Rep. Ed Propst (Ind-Saipan) and Rep. Ivan Blanco (R-Saipan) \u201cfor going out there and lending additional eyes on where these illegal dumps are and who might be violating the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Propst and Blanco would post pictures of illegal dumps on social media to bring the pollution problem to the attention of the public.<\/p>\n
According to Rabauliman, BECQ spends more than 50 percent of its time educating people.<\/p>\n
Rabauliman said that littering should not be addressed solely by the government agencies involved, but by the community as well.<\/p>\n
He believes the excess waste is related to the rising population of the islands. \u201cA lot more waste is generated\u2014both solid waste and wastewater,\u201d said Rabauliman.<\/p>\n
To supplement the anti-littering efforts, the 3rd litter control apprehending officers certification training would be held on Feb. 28. <\/p>\n
According to Division of Environmental Quality\u2019s Ray Masga, they aim to certify a hundred anti-littering officers.<\/p>\n
The participants would be taken from BECQ and other government agencies such as the Department of Public Safety, Department of Public Works, and others.<\/p>\n
This would be the first training that would be held since Public Law 19-53 was signed into law by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres last July. That law provides a sliding scale for littering penalties, with the amount of the fine to depend on the severity of the violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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