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    "ocrText": "tion over labor-management relations in all United States\n18. Ecology\nterritories and possessions on the basis that those statutes\nThe improvement and control of the quality of the\ndefine \"commerce\", for purposes of statutory coverage, as\n\"trade, traffic\nenvironment in Puerto Rico is essential to the public\nwithin\nany territory.\" The 1950-52\nlegislation and compact created a unique Commonwealth\nhealth and well being of the people of Puerto Rico and the\nUnited States. Well coordinated efforts and clear lines of\nstatus for Puerto Rico and the courts, in recognition of\nthis change, reduced the jurisdiction of the National Labor\njurisdiction between the Federal levels and those of the\nFree Associated State of Puerto Rico must exist for the\nRelations Board-Cosentino v. I.L.A., 126 F. Supp. 420\n(1954). Thereafter, Puerto Rico was treated in the same\neffective accomplishment of this common goal.\nmanner as the several states-Hodgson v. Unión de\nIn this respect, the Advisory Group recognizes that\nEmpleados de los Supermercados Pueblo, 371 F. Supp. 56\nthere are national goals for the protection of the environ-\n(1974).\nment which are shared by the people of the United States\nand Puerto Rico. It also recognizes that the environmental,\nThe Advisory Group recommends that in recognition\nsocial, economic and physical characteristics of Puerto\nof the further development of self-government and\nRico are in many instances different from those existing in\nself-determination in Puerto Rico, the jurisdiction of the\nthe continental United States. Effective solutions to\nBoard be further limited to mean literally interstate\nenvironmental problems must take into account the social,\ncommerce; i.e., the aviation and maritime industries. The\neconomic and physical characteristics, including meteoro-\nAdvisory Group feels that the Free Associated State\nlogical conditions and assimilative capacity of the ocean\nshould be the custodian of labor-management relations in\nsurrounding the area in which an environmental preserva-\nthose Puerto Rican industries which are not engaged in\ntion program is to be implemented. Primary responsibility\nactual traffic between Puerto Rico and other areas of the\nmust of necessity rest with local government if effective\nUnited States, its territories or foreign countries.\nprotection of the environment is to be achieved.\nSimilarly, cultural and demographic conditions in\nIn view of the above conditions, the Advisory Group\nPuerto Rico indicate that legislation and regulations\nconsiders that Federal involvement is required for the\npromoting occupational health and safety should originate\ndefinition of general goals and strategies for the control of\nin the Free Associated State, with the closest possible\nenvironmental problems. Also, as is the case with the\ncooperation and coordination with Federal programs in\nstates, Federal assistance is a necessary adjunct to the\nthis area, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act\nlocal achievement of these objectives.\n(OSHA).\nThe Advisory Group further believes that such goals\nand strategies in Puerto Rico must be implemented\nthrough the use of government institutions, laws, rules and\n18. Ecology\nregulations designed and implemented at the level of the\ngovernment of the Free Associated State of Puerto Rico.\nThe primary authority to regulate the ecology and environ-\nSuch tools for the implementation of general goals and\nmental quality in Puerto Rico shall reside in the Free Associated\nstrategies must take into account the nature\nof the\nState of Puerto Rico.\nenvironmental problems, as they exist in Puerto Rico,\nwithin the framework of its physical, economic, social and\nenvironmental realities.\n44\n45"
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