However, the Army argues that a 1974 law prohibits the Federal cleanup of a 400-acre parcel that was part of the bombardment zone.
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Pierluisi discusses legal barriers to cleaning up a hazardous site in Puerto Rico.
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On October 4, 2021, Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi publicly recognized that AES-PR is ready to convert its thermal plant to another source of energy.
We need to do public-private partnerships for both transmission and distribution and generation, and actually split the two so that there is no monopoly in Puerto Rico.
The damage that we have suffered, because of this hurricane, is rain-related, mostly. It's going to - by the time, the tail leaves Puerto Rico, we will have gotten roughly 35 inches of rain. That's a huge amount of rain.
I thank you for favorably reporting H.R. 8393 out of this Committee and urge Congress to approve it.





