The Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board —Spanish: Junta de Calidad Ambiental de Puerto Rico (JCA)— is the principal environmental protection regulator in Puerto Rico.
The Board is attached to the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico.
[1][2] The Board was established by Governor Luis A. Ferré in 1970, a year before the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
It has also been chaired by other prominent Puerto Ricans, including Pedro Gelabert, under Gov.
Both Matos and Gelabert went on to serve as Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, under Governors Rafael Hernández Colón and Pedro Rosselló, respectively.