Puerto Rico: Update of Selected Information Contained in a 1981 GAO Report : Fact Sheet for the Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate

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Page 45 - The purposes of this title are (1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 38 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food...
Page 44 - ... 3. by authorizing the Secretary of Labor to set mandatory occupational safety and health standards...
Page 52 - The statutory laws of the United States not locally inapplicable, except as hereinbefore or hereinafter otherwise provided, shall have the same force and effect in Puerto Rico as in the United States '48 USC sect.
Page 46 - The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to regulate the dumping of all types of materials into ocean waters and to prevent or strictly limit the dumping into ocean waters of any material which would adversely affect human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities.
Page 47 - Unfair methods of competition and unfair acts in the importation of articles into the United States, or in their sale by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of either, the effect or tendency of which is to destroy or substantially injure an industry, efficiently and economically operated, in the United States...
Page 42 - Rican products unless the sum of the cost or value of the materials produced in Puerto Rico, plus the direct...
Page 53 - The court went on to hold that, just as would be the case with a state, the defendants could be prosecuted under both Federal and local law, without violating the constitutional prohibition against trying a person twice for the same crime (double jeopardy) because Puerto Rico and the United States were separate sovereign entities. Although the legal relationship between Puerto Rico and the united States is far from clear and fraught with controversy, it is established that Puerto Rico is to be treated...
Page 22 - From 1979 to 1988, the reverse has been true as job creation has increased at a rate nearly three times that of population growth. But island unemployment continues to be two to three times greater than the national average and incomes remain relatively low. In calendar year 1988, the unemployment rate was 15.0 percent compared with the US average of 5.5 percent (Louisiana had the highest unemployment rate, 10.9 percent in 1988). This has been partially responsible for the high levels of participation...
Page 3 - ... payments to the federal Treasury. After several hearings and amendments, the bill died in committee. In December 1975, a slightly modified version of the proposed compact was introduced in the House of Representatives, where it died in committee. A Senate version of the compact was also not acted upon . Other initiatives included a statehood proposal made unilaterally by President Gerald Ford in December 1976. The proposed legislation called for hearings and studies on statehood1 s effects, a...

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