{"id":292353,"date":"2019-01-23T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=292353"},"modified":"2019-01-23T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:00:04","slug":"senators-introduce-bill-to-increase-transparency-of-environmental-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senators-introduce-bill-to-increase-transparency-of-environmental-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators introduce bill to increase transparency of environmental violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-292353 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senators-introduce-bill-to-increase-transparency-of-environmental-violations\/senators-pix-perez\/'>Senators pix (Perez)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-292354'>\n\t\t\t\tPerez\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senators-introduce-bill-to-increase-transparency-of-environmental-violations\/senators-pix-ridgell\/'>Senators pix (Ridgell)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-292355'>\n\t\t\t\tRidgell\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senators-introduce-bill-to-increase-transparency-of-environmental-violations\/senators-pix-terlaje\/'>Senators pix (Terlaje)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-292356'>\n\t\t\t\tTerlaje\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>HAGATNA, Guam\u2014<\/strong>Sens. Therese M. Terlaje, Sabina Flores Perez, and Clynt Ridgell introduced Bill 27-35 (COR) that will require the timely publication of environmental violation notices and settlement agreements on the Guam Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s website and require regular reporting of these notices and agreements to the GEPA Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Bill 27-35 requires the online publication of Notices of Violations, Orders of Compliance, Notices of Defense, Voluntary Compliance Agreements, Settlement Agreements and Referrals to the Office of the Attorney General for Prosecution, allowing the public to follow the enforcement process from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy increasing agency transparency, we are prioritizing active participation by the public in their government and ultimately making agencies and their boards accountable for the level of enforcement that our entire community is depending on,\u201d said Terlaje. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGATNA, Guam\u2014Sens. Therese M. Terlaje, Sabina Flores Perez, and Clynt Ridgell introduced Bill 27-35 (COR)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":292354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1806],"class_list":["post-292353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-hagatna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}