Secretary of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico
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The Secretary of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico ( es, Secretario de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales de Puerto Rico) is responsible for protecting, conserving, and managing the
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and environmental resources of
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. Daniel Galán Kercadó was the Secretary of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico under governor Luis Fortuño. At least by 2013 he was no longer Secretary of the DNRA (the Spanish language acronym for the Department) and was acting as environmental manager for Intuitive Consulting, a company contracted by the builders of the new
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In 2017 Governor
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designated Tania Vazquez Rivera as Secretary of the DRNA.


Secretaries

* 1986–1988: Justo A. Méndez Rodriguez * 1993–1996: Pedro A. Gelabert * 2009–2013: Daniel J. Galán Kercado * 2013–2016: Carmen R. Guerrero Pérez * 2016: Nelson J. Santiago Marrero * 2017–2019: Tania Vázquez Rivera


References


External links

* Council of Secretaries of Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico
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