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The control board will have to pick winners and losers.
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Its finances are being overseen by a federal control board.
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The Fiscal Control Board approved Rosselló's budget, with some changes, on Saturday.
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But the Public Authorities Control Board cut the loan to $15 million.
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The island's finances are also being overseen by a federal control board.
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That'll get you elected to the Liquor Control Board, or maybe governor.
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The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board was not immediately available for a comment.
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Men inspect the automatic control board at the 207th Street station on Oct.
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Under pressure, the state's Public Authorities Control Board denied the plan in 2005.
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A legislative solution could also include introducing a control board for the island.
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The legislation would set up a financial control board and restructure some debt.
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But the local mosquito control board still needs to agree to their release.
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It would include a federal financial-control board and a debt-restructuring mechanism.
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Exempt reviews of transactions that are already covered by the export control board.
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And there is not much the UN's International Narcotics Control Board can do.
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It is the Civilian Complaint Review Board, not the Civilian Complaint Control Board.
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A fiscal control board of some sort is probably unavoidable at this point.
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The negative reporting harmed Nevada's reputation and the gaming industry, the control board claims.
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She wants to eliminate the federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances. Sen.
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The liquor control board is the distributor for all liquor retailers in the province.
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A decision will be made by the local mosquito control board on Nov. 19.
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Puerto Rico's federal control board has authorized $1 billion for hurricane relief, but Gov.
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The control board is now scheduled to take up the SolarCity money on Wednesday.
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The bill would establish an outside fiscal control board to steer the island's finances.
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The plan was approved by a federal control board, which oversees the island's finances.
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"Congress did not create a control board ... with plenary policymaking power," the governor said.
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Projects must receive unanimous approval from the Public Authorities Control Board, according to Gianaris.
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In a statement published Wednesday, the UN's International Narcotics Control Board criticized Canada's actions.
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"After completing our review, the Nevada Gaming Control Board is conducting an investigation with regard to the allegations of sexual misconduct involving Steve Wynn," Becky Harris, the chair of the Gaming Control Board, said in a statement reported by the Review-Journal.
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Last year, India's Central Pollution Control Board again suggested the feces might belong to birds.
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At the time, a federal financial-control board could impose responsible budgets in the District.
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What could be driving, then, this effort towards the imposition of a fiscal control board?
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Other notable progressives shared Sanders's concerns about the control board, but still supported the bill.
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His father was a licensing and enforcement officer with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board there.
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But by May 2017, the regional California Water Quality Control Board was raising fresh alarms.
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The president of Alberta's recycling control board has never heard of a scam like this.
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In the Puerto Rico context, such a control board would have the power to: Such actions by a control board implementing a reform plan over several years would satisfy the policy goals noted above, with the possible exception of the preservation of political accountability.
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Washington lawmakers have been examining various solutions for Puerto Rico, such as using a control board.
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Morphine consumption data from the International Narcotics Control Board, she said, tells part of the story.
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Also, Washington imposed a financial control board on the bankrupt island this summer, feeding local resentment.
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"The CDC's infectious disease control board actually has a number of conflicts of interests," he argued.
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For example, the fiscal control board is viewed in Puerto Rico as unaccountable to the people.
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The governor's relationship with the federal control board and the Puerto Rico Energy Commission is fiscal.
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As constituted, the Financial Control Board is simply too conflicted and inept to oversee recovery efforts.
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Under PROMESA, the U.S. Congress established a Fiscal Control Board with authority over the territory's spending.
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A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances announced this week that retired Air Force Col.
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"It's a good match-up," said Mike Lawton, senior research analyst for the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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The delegation met with Puerto Rican officials, business and labor representatives, and the island's Fiscal Control Board.
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Nearby, a man at a control board set the 66 moving spotlights in the ceiling in motion.
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"The decision on when to start the trial rests with the local mosquito control board," he said.
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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is the largest purchaser of wine and spirits in the United States.
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The U.S. Treasury Department has called on Congress to create a fiscal control board for Puerto Rico.
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Baker's decision has come under scrutiny from both public health officials and the state's cannabis control board.
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In 2016, total sports wagers in Nevada were $4.5 billion, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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On Tuesday, the chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board said her panel was investigating the allegations.
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Puerto Rico's newly created fiscal control board met briefly in New York Friday for the first time.
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"The Nevada Gaming Control Board will conduct its investigation in a thorough and judicious manner," she added.
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It also would establish an outside control board to overlook fiscal matters, a top demand from Republicans.
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Most of its buttons were already functional, she just needed to solder them to a control board.
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However, the State Water Resources Control Board reported that California will likely beat its long-term conservation goal.
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The International Narcotics Control Board reported that in 2015, Americans represented about 99.7% of the world's hydrocodone consumption.
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The city's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has been cracking down on go-go club owners since the 1990s.
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"Manpower, that's the main thing," said Claudia Riegel, director of the city's Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board.
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A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico&aposs finances announced this week that retired Air Force Col.
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Frozen Budz, a fledging edibles company, became the first retail shop approved by the state's Marijuana Control Board.
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Charlie Baker, a Republican, pushed to create a fiscal control board to oversee the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
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Nevada's Gaming Control Board said it will pass along records compiled on Paddock and his girlfriend to investigators.
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They denounced the "junta" — or federal control board — that will soon direct this island's failing governance and finances.
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David, also a trumpet player, spent two years by his father's side learning to work the control board.
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At Mr. Rohatyn's direction, Albany set up the Emergency Financial Control Board, with Mr. Rohatyn as a member.
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The Thai Office of Narcotics Control Board did not respond to an email seeking comment for this story.
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It was similar to the Financial Control Board created by Congress in the 28503s to fix the mess caused by local politicians in Washington, D.C. But while the Financial Control Board successfully guided D.C.'s local government out of a fiscal ditch, the same can't be said about the troika.
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Millstein said the "political consensus on the island" was that a control board would be part of any restructuring.
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For the third-straight month, gross gaming revenue on the Strip slowed, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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Alberta's New Democrat Premier Rachel Notley said the Alberta Gaming & Liquor Control Board will immediately stop importing B.C. wine.
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Last year too, the Central Pollution Control Board raised concerns that mud packs were making the monument turn grey.
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The Central Pollution Control Board says the wind is blowing dust from the desert state of Rajasthan into Delhi.
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Cantor Gaming in 2014 agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve related allegations by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board required all sportsbooks to successfully launch before being able to partake in online betting.
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Sanders blasted one of the central pieces of the bill -- the outside control board -- calling it unacceptable and undemocratic.
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Together, we warmed up our radio voices and reviewed the control board before I went live on the air.
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The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is a United Nations body monitoring how states implement international drug-control conventions.
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That was the same year that the city's environmental control board doled out a whopping 18,0003 vending violation tickets.
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House Republicans are trying to rework legislation that would establish an outside control board to oversee Puerto Rico's finances.
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But how the board is set up, it is likely the control board will have a slight conservative perspective.
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Fear of such a super board has led many debt-holders to strongly resist the fiscal control board approach.
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Despite the improved drought conditions, the State Water Resources Control Board on Wednesday voted to extend California's emergency drought regulations.
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In total, over 2170 water systems carry contaminated water into homes and schools, according to California's Water Resources Control Board.
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New York City was steered away from fiscal collapse in the 1970s with the help of a financial control board.
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Some municipalities are now asking the State Water Resources Control Board, which determines water conservation requirements, to relax the measures.
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Tarver was suspended 6 months by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board for testing positive for a synthetic testosterone.
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Prior investigations into the donation matter by the Nevada Gaming Control Board and SEC were closed with no actions taken.
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The control board would have seven members, selected by President Obama from candidates proposed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
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Her lawsuit targets the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Climate, as well as the Central Pollution Control Board of India.
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The control board fills an entire wall, tracking minor to major injuries with color codes of blue, yellow and red.
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He also pushed back against claims that the outside control board would effectively override any elected officials on the island.
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Likewise, the Fiscal Control Board, created by Washington, is proposing to change Puerto Rico's economic structure without a rigorous diagnosis.
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Thus, the recipe of the Fiscal Control Board, based on the idea that mismanagement alone caused the crisis, is perverse.
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"The regulations were effective but a somewhat blunt instrument," said Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board.
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Instead, Sanders blasted one of the central pieces of the bill — the outside control board — calling it unacceptable and undemocratic.
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Congress should also put in place a control board that can give residents and investors confidence in the territory's future.
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It has even added a shot of adrenaline to the typically staid race for seats on the mosquito control board.
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Mexico would need approval from the International Narcotics Control Board (a United Nations agency) to begin producing its own opiates.
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In 2011, the International Narcotics Control Board released a report warning of traffickers using social media to lure young clients.
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Julio López Varona: The Fiscal Control Board has set this hearing in NYC to discuss labor policies in Puerto Rico.
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"This was a tremendously difficult decision to make," the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board said in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
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Some members of Congress have suggested that a control board would be a condition of granting financial relief to the commonwealth.
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Second, the state's water-control board is trying to increase the flow of water in the main rivers of the delta.
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According to GrubStreet, Alabama's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (or the ABC) claimed that only beer should be served in pitchers. Why?
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Wynn Resorts has already admitted to a litany of charges, laid out in a complaint by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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This week Congress will debate a bill that proposes to set up a federal control board to restructure the island's debts.
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The governor of Puerto Rico welcomed parts of the bill, but worries that a financial control board would be too powerful.
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On Monday afternoon, the air quality index had fallen slightly to 407, according to the state-run Central Pollution Control Board.
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Instead, it would establish an outside fiscal control board and allow the territory to rework its $70 billion in unpayable debt.
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"We're talking about the governor of Puerto Rico and the fiscal control board being one and the same," Puerto Rican Rep.
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It also creates a stay on litigation meant to encourage negotiated debt restructuring agreements without a mandate from the control board.
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These are largely the powers that were vested in the financial control board of the District of Columbia with tremendous success.
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The legislation would establish an outside control board to oversee Puerto Rico's finances while allowing the debt restructuring through the courts.
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Wynn Resorts neither admitted nor denied Nevada Gaming Control Board allegations that Wynn sexually harassed multiple flight attendants on company aircraft.
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President Obama has named the seven officials that will run an outside control board to help repair Puerto Rico's troubled finances.
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The broad framework of the bill would establish an outside fiscal control board and allow the island to restructure its debt.
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Michael Gianaris of Queens to the Public Authorities Control Board, a little-known entity that could eventually block the development plan.
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And the California State Water Resources Control Board is debating a mitigation plan for its cooling system, which could add further costs.
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Last year Congress in effect revoked that autonomy, by creating a control board capable of vetoing any item in Puerto Rico's budget.
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The State Water Resources Control Board had earlier authorized spending $200 million on an array of projects devoted to capturing storm water.
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Gianaris was expected to take a seat on the Public Authorities Control Board, which would have had to approve the deal unanimously.
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Yachty sat down at the control board, opened his Gmail account on the giant screen, and started playing some songs for Lee.
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Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, called it an "enormous effort" in saving water, despite the missed target.
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A pro-legalization campaign has been gathering momentum in recent years, with support from the former head of the Narcotics Control Board.
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Meléndez says both Congress and the Fiscal Control Board created under Promesa focused on the territory's finances but overlooked the 78 municipalities.
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The city now will be subject to a state financial control board with broad authority over the mayor and the City Council.
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Puerto Rico does not need a fiscal control board that would destroy the Commonwealth's ability to provide essential services to its people.
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Despite the imminent default deadline, legislation in the House to create an outside control board to oversee Puerto Rico's finances remains stalled.
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The bill would establish an outside fiscal control board and allow the island to restructure its roughly $70 billion in outstanding debt.
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This is exactly why Puerto Rico should never be a state, and why Congress put a new control board over Puerto Rico.
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Bishop expressed support for the idea that any fiscal control board "needs to respect Puerto Rico's autonomy and self-governance," Ortiz said.
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This legislation set the stage for federal micromanagement of Puerto Rican affairs, setting up a control board to attempt to cut expenses.
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Nearly half ends up in landfills, on the streets, and in drains and sewage systems, according to India's Central Pollution Control Board.
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But this year, there is reason for hope, said S. S. Matharu, a government engineer working for the Punjab Pollution Control Board.
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The district never went bankrupt but was placed under supervision of a financial control board and now enjoys a double-A bond rating.
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Ricardo Rosselló notified the island's Fiscal Control Board Wednesday that he would seek a form of bankruptcy protection after failed negotiations with creditors.
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The company also asked the state government's pollution control board to reconsider its application for consent to operate, which was rejected in April.
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Braden said he was referring to the potential creation of a control board to help Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, manage its debt.
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Earlier this year, the head of the gambling unit, Lee Amaitis, resigned as part of a settlement with the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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That budget, the first approved by the Fiscal Control Board appointed by Congress to oversee the island's finances, will enact unpopular austerity measures.
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The outside control board that would be created under the law would be filled by officials nominated by top Democratic and Republican policymakers.
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"My fear is that the junta" — the control board — "will pay bondholders and not attend to the needs of the people," he said.
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The unwillingness to pay could be solved with budget cuts, higher taxes and a fiscal control board that can impose politically unpopular measures.
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In particular, they were incensed by the push to establish an outside control board that would help monitor and steer the island's finances.
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After decades of 'benign neglect,' pressure from special interest groups will probably push Congress to impose a fiscal control board on the Commonwealth.
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According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), 25 out of 31 monitoring stations in various localities of Delhi for which data app.cpcbccr.
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Wipes cause sewage issues Facilities across California have already reported issues with their sewer collection systems, the state's Water Resources Control Board said.
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To make matters worse, last week the Control Board started advocating for there to be no Christmas bonus for workers on the island.
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Leroy Comrie, a Queens state senator, recently replaced Mr. Gianaris as the nominee to the panel, known as the Public Authorities Control Board.
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The city of Delhi on Wednesday reported air quality ranging from "poor" to "very poor," according to the country's Central Pollution Control Board.
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The deputy commissioner, S.S. Nakul, told me that a local member of the pollution control board recently wrote a report about the factory.
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But because of that, and because conditions have improved, the State Water Resources Control Board eased up on the statewide mandate last year.
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And many experts, including the International Narcotics Control Board, have asked for a greater focus on public health policies to curtail demand for drugs.
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Both the Massachusetts Gaming Commission and the Nevada Gaming Control Board also said they will investigate and review Wynn Resorts in their respective states.
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Obviously the company's success there warmed the frozen hearts of our state's Liquor Control Board and allowed this small divergence from the status quo.
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Keith Roberson, senior engineering geologist with the water quality control board, called Related's proposal "a solid plan," and he worries about setting a precedent.
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"Lots of people know that they need to keep conserving and they are," State Water Resources Control Board Chair Felicia Marcus told reporters Friday.
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Californians must fundamentally change their relationship to the resource, said Max Gomberg, the climate and conservation manager for the State Water Resources Control Board.
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Furthering Amazon's troubles is the recent nomination of one of its most outspoken critics, state Senator Michael Gianaris, to the Public Authorities Control Board.
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In 1993, the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board wrote the Navy about possible 1950s-era "disposal of radium dials," public records show.
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"If the control board takes the people's power away, it will just be viewed as another colonial power grab by the government," said Rep.
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The legislation would allow Puerto Rico to restructure $70 billion in debt and establish an outside control board to steer the island's troubled finances.
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What is needed is clear: an orderly restructuring of debts and a financial control board to help the territory fix its finances and economy.
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The legislation would establish an outside control board to oversee Puerto Rico's finances while allowing the territory to restructure its debt through the courts.
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The Nevada Gaming Control Board approved three types of wagers on the competition: head to head, winner of each match, and overall season winner.
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PREPA will continue to attract criticism from outside parties like the control board and the agency's highly competent regulator, the Puerto Rico Energy Commission.
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That led to Congress passing the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, which entrusted the island's finances to a Fiscal Control Board.
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The project still needs three more approvals, from the State Lands Commission, the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board and the California Coastal Commission.
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Cruz also said a federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico&aposs finances has taken $350 million away from municipalities, money that is much needed.
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The control board relies on several methods, including mosquito surveillance, education, eliminating breeding sites, biological control, pesticides, spray trucks and "airplane spraying," the city says.
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Recently, Democrats nominated Senator Gianaris for a critical position on the Public Authorities Control Board (PACB), which must unanimously approve financing for the Amazon project.
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Wynn Resorts (WYNN) executives ignored sexual misconduct complaints against former CEO Steve Wynn, according to a newly released report from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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Downtown Grand's William Hill partnership makes for an important ally, and the Nevada Gaming Control Board — which oversees the state's gaming regulations — is clearly receptive.
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But if spring rains do not materialize, the wet winter's gains may be lost, said Felicia Marcus, who chairs the State Water Resources Control Board.
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Excrement samples will be collected by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Central Avian Research Institute, and Central Pollution Control Board, according to India Times.
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California's State Water Resources Control Board is expected soon to implement a plan to prevent the imminent collapse of fisheries in the state's largest estuary.
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The Sierra Club also said the Virginia State Water Control Board is revisiting the sufficiency of the project's current water certifications, which could be revoked.
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It has ruled out a bailout while contemplating the creation of a fiscal control board to take control of the commonwealth's taxing and spending decisions.
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"I still have a drought hangover so I wake up worried about drought," said Felicia Marcus, the head of the state Water Resources Control Board.
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"I think the odds are a lot higher that I run for the Noxious Weed Control Board of Dodge County, Nebraska, than that," he quipped.
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To legally grow and export opium poppies for painkillers, Mexico first would need authorization from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a United Nations body.
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Meanwhile, many Democrats argued the control board was too powerful, and also had concerns with additional provisions in the bill aimed at winning over Republicans.
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What happened: The Senate named Senator Michael Gianaris, who has called the incentives promised to Amazon "offensive," to the little-known Public Authorities Control Board.
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Moreover, thanks to the austerity imposed by the control board—representing some 20% of total public spending by 2019—enthusiasm for the status quo has shrivelled.
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Sensible financial management is another: the city has balanced its budget since Congress imposed a Financial Control Board from 1995 to 2001 to stop the rot.
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"It's amazing, and it's taken 20 years," said Felicia Marcus, the head of the State Water Resources Control Board, which supervises efforts to manage the drought.
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The governor kept his promise not to implement a 10 percent cut to the island&aposs public pension system as sought by a federal control board.
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The topic of Tuesday's hearing was on the prospects of a federal control board for Puerto Rico, but bankruptcy remained a major topic of conversation. Rep.
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India's Central Pollution Control Board said it would ban garbage burning and enforce stricter regulations for brick kilns and industrial plants if the air quality worsens.
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While Nevada's Gaming Control board reported $4.8 billion in sports bets last year, the black market total is considered to be many times the legal market.
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They need to put in a control board much like they did with Washington, D.C., in the 1980s to take over and put things in order.
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Based on these examples, if an inability to assume difficult decisions is the basic justification of a fiscal control board, then no such mechanism is necessary.
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Many recipients of Carrión's generous fundraising efforts had lobbied in favor of a control board, including the President's brother-in-law and Resident Commissioner, Pedro Pierluisi.
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In recent weeks, Rosselló has stated publicly that he will fight the federal control board, and is even willing to go to jail by doing so.
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The Vermont senator said Monday the bill "would make a terrible situation even worse," citing a control board that the legislation would establish for the territory.
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Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló notified the island's Fiscal Control Board Wednesday that he would seek a form of bankruptcy protection after failed negotiations with creditors.
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To add insult to injury, PROMESA's unelected control Board will cost a staggering $85033 million, none of which will be paid for by the Federal government.
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Most modern dishwashers can handle those sticky, crusty food remnants just fine, said Peter Brostrom, a water efficiency manager for the California Water Resources Control Board.
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"I was trying to produce through someone else's eyes and ears — someone who's not here," he said with vexed intensity, while sitting at his control board.
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The International Narcotics Control Board, a quasi-judicial oversight body established by the UN, would have to approve any bid by Mexico to join that club.
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"The Public Authority Control Board will likely have to approve the agreement," said David J. Friedfel, director of state studies at the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission.
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Sanders said Monday the bill "would make a terrible situation even worse," citing a control board that the legislation would establish for the territory. http://bit.
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More egregiously, we have seen this trend continue in the hiring of the Proskauer Rose law firm to advise the island's newly created fiscal control board.
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But the strength of the control board idea is the ability to act swiftly and decisively for reform and to do so without excusing any debt.
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However, none of the pilot tests it conducted met key emissions parameters, NTPC said in a presentation submitted last month to the Central Pollution Control Board.
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The government&aposs Central Pollution Control Board rated the city&aposs air quality Friday as "severe" — the worst possible category — for the fourth day in a row.
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The entire device can be disassembled using a standard Allen wrench, and everything from the battery to the drivers to electronic control board can be swapped out.
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Michael N. Gianaris (D-Queens) nominated to the Public Authorities Control Board, the Post notes that he's in position to veto the deal, so long as Gov.
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He hopes the hurricane will spur the fiscal control board, which governs the territory's finances, to push forward a decade-old proposal to privatise the power industry.
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None of the businesses will be able to sell marijuana products, and Colorado's Liquor Control Board prohibits any establishment with a liquor license from allowing marijuana use.
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If this process is to be successful, it is critical that control board members have municipal finance expertise and the strength of will to make unpopular decisions.
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President Obama, and our political leadership in the House and Senate must now advance the process by delivering a control board worthy of this opportunity and challenge.
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The same industry officials who spoke to Reuters said the pollution control board rarely checked waste-treatment practices at factories, adding that penalties for breaches were meager.
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For example, he said that if the island's government passed responsible budgets on its own, the control board would not need to impose its own fiscal plans.
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The bill would give the control board authority to investigate what went wrong on the island, to demand reforms and to enforce credible budgets and fiscal plans.
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But when negotiations got bogged down by a few sticking points, including the creation of an independent fiscal control board, Ryan stepped in to close the deal.
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The measure would establish an outside fiscal control board to steer the island's troubled finances and in turn let the territory restructure its $85033 billion in debt.
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Even if the Control Board were replaced, any agreement to modify the debt payment scheme would have to be approved by a federal judge in New York.
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It involves some form of a federal financial-control board, a legal structure for debt restructuring and somewhat better treatment of Puerto Rico on some federal programs.
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Today, more than 300 public water systems in California serve unsafe drinking water, according to public compliance data compiled by the California State Water Resources Control Board.
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The capital's financial affairs were in such disarray by the mid-9003s that they were taken over by a federal financial control board that operated until 2001.
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That includes Nevada, an important state on gambling issues, where the gaming control board said it was not legal to offer daily fantasy games without a license.
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A Republican House and Senate acquiesced to many demands by Treasury in exchange for the right to be able to name a majority of the control board.
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Others have suggested appointing a control board similar to the one that took over the District of Columbia's finances in the 1990s and allowing for Chapter 9.
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Right now, new lights are being installed, as well as new red and black curtains, new railings and a control board inside a brand-new control room.
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D. Sekar, a senior official with the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, also declined to explain the reasons, saying only that the closure was a "policy decision".
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"It makes the most sense to continue steady as she goes," California Water Resources Control Board Chair Felicia Marcus told the Associated Press in an interview this week.
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Legislators recently approved a budget that awarded an additional $1.5 million to the forensics institute, but a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico&aposs finances rejected the increase.
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The Nevada Gaming Control Board has opened an investigation into allegations Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn engaged in a long pattern of sexual misconduct, including with employees.
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On Monday, Queens State Senator Michael Gianaris was nominated to sit on New York's Public Authorities Control Board, which must unanimously approve the deal before it is completed.
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"The creation of the control board took our status as a colony out of the closet," says Ana Rivera Lassén, a leader of the movement opposing the board.
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Residents of Key Haven will vote on the trial in a nonbinding referendum scheduled for November, with final approval to reside with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control Board.
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And of the 15,0003 tonnes of plastic waste generated every day in India, only 9,000 tonnes is collected and processed, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
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Dipankar Saha, a scientist at the government's Central Pollution Control Board, said the still weather had also played a part in the toxic haze hanging over the city.
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He announced the results at a meeting of the state financial control board, which was formed in 1975 to review the city's finances after it nearly went bankrupt.
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Chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code makes no provision for the reorganization of general obligation debt, but Puerto Rico's control board will not be constrained from doing so.
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Legislation crafted in the House would allow the island to restructure its debt, and also impose an outside control board to steer the island's finances back to health.
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That no easy option is available is obvious, but a control board offers a path forward without the perverse incentives and adverse effects that Chapter 9 would create.
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The legislation would create an outside fiscal control board to steer the territory's finances, effectively putting in place a new body that would supersede Puerto Rico's elected officials.
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The state pollution control board in April rejected the company's request to renew its license to operate, saying it had not complied with environmental laws on five counts.
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The control board, he said, has not had to develop regulations to govern security at the hotels because the operators have done a good job on their own.
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Fear of abuse drives 'opiophobic' policies The International Narcotics Control Board has two purposes: to prevent addiction and to ensure the availability of opioids for legitimate medical use.
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He added that he was struggling with budget cuts mandated by the fiscal control board created by Congress, which ordered a $25 million cut from his operational budget.
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Detractors may find that they have the most leverage at the obscure, five-member Public Authorities Control Board, which reviews and approves certain financing deals by state authorities.
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The law created a financial control board for the island that was not accountable to the local government, and lowered the minimum wage to $4.25 for young workers.
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Many Democrats also do not want to see the control board given too much power, arguing it would effectively wrest control of the island's affairs from its residents.
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A federally appointed control board would be able to take the obvious steps needed to set Puerto Rico on the path to fiscal recovery and sustainable economic growth.
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The Nevada Gaming Control Board is opening an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn, the former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
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Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have seen their gaming revenue drop now for three consecutive months, according to data released Wednesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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A White House-backed measure that would create a control board to oversee the island's finances and supervise some debt restructuring passed the Senate on Wednesday by 68-32.
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As of January, water users in California's cities and towns have used 24.8 percent less water since mandatory conservation began last year, the State Water Resources Control Board said.
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Washington, on the other hand, did not go bankrupt in the late 1990s, but was placed under a financial control board and now has a double-A bond rating.
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Mike Gianaris, an outspoken critic of the Amazon deal who represents Long Island City, was recently nominated to the Public Authorities Control Board, which oversees major capital funding projects.
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Cement plants and other industries approved to use petcoke in the region would also need to obtain permission from the state pollution control board to continue operations, it said.
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For example, New York State imposed a financial control board on New York City in 1975 and Congress and President Bill Clinton did the same in Washington in 1995.
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At the federal level, the Obama administration is asking Congress to give Puerto Rico the ability to restructure its $72 billion debt and to create a financial control board.
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NGT Chairman Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said the committee, including representatives from Vedanta, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and the federal environment ministry, will look into the matter afresh.
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The International Narcotics Control Board, an independent monitor linked to the UN, reckons that Britain is the world's largest exporter of legal cannabis (in the form of medical products).
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While the Central Pollution Control Board (PCB) in New Delhi categorizes Medak's Patancheru area as "critically polluted", the state PCB says its own monitoring shows the situation has improved.
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The Hyderabad-based Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association of India (BDMAI) said the state pollution control board had found no antibiotics in its own study of water in Kazhipally lake.
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Mr. James, 34, works in Chicago as an attorney-adviser for the Illinois Pollution Control Board, which adopts environmental regulations and adjudicates contested pollution-related cases for the state.
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Earlier this week, President Obama named seven unelected and unaccountable members to Puerto Rico's Fiscal Control Board, the undemocratic body that will govern the island for the foreseeable future.
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Unable to convince Congress to provide a bailout, the state legislature created the New York State Financial Control Board, and empowered it to take charge of the city's finances.
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Meantime, the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Tuesday reported that Nevada casinos won nearly $980 million in September, a 3 percent increase from the same month a year ago.
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The default came a day after Barack Obama signed emergency legislation that creates a fiscal control board for the territory with the power to restructure its crippling debt load.
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For example, should Congress give a federal control board the authority to revise all "acquired rights" that have been approved by local courts in Puerto Rico in past decades?
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No government has ever liked having a control board imposed on it, but most astute political leaders learn how to use them in the best interest of their people.
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Meanwhile, Democrats have expressed openness to the bill, but have said they cannot back it without some changes, most notably to the powers of an outside fiscal control board.
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Yet today, neither the Commonwealth nor the Oversight Control Board appear to be heeding Hamilton's wisdom nor its Constitution, much to the detriment of the people of Puerto Rico.
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Democrats generally oppose the control board, which would have oversight over Puerto Rico's finances, but have mostly accepted it as a necessary evil to pass relief for the island.
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The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hasn't yet publicly explained why it wants to implement the rule, which is scheduled to be considered at a meeting on September 28.
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The legislation is expected to put Puerto Rico's finances under federal oversight through a control board and let the Caribbean island cut debt through a bankruptcy-like restructuring process.
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Right now, we have a gaming-control board that is very tough, and they've said no marijuana in any hotels, which is totally unrealistic because it's already there, obviously.
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Lew recognizes the necessity for an external body to help Puerto Rico get its financial house in order, as evidenced by his urging Ryan to appoint a control board.
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We need look no further than Washington, DC. Twenty years ago, on the brink of disaster, the District of Columbia was put under the management of a Control Board.
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The past week has seen air quality in the Indian capital plunge again, with the Central Pollution Control Board recording an average air quality level of 272 on Monday.
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Washington (CNN)Washington's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board met on Wednesday to consider a review into whether President Donald Trump has the character to sell alcohol in the nation's capital.
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He's trying to block the build, potentially by getting it voted down on the Public Authorities Control Board, where he says the state could halt funding for the subsidies.
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In Placer County, for example, the water agency sent a letter to the State Water Resources Control Board last month requesting it rescind emergency drought regulations in the region.
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The Air Control Board calculated that in 1974, the Texas City plant released 3,000 tons of vinyl chloride — 12 times the emissions from all U.S. plants combined in 2014.
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The win total is the second highest on record since the Nevada Gaming Control Board started tracking such wagers in 1990, trailing only the $19.7 million total set in 2014.
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"Puerto Rico has a long history of inadequate financial controls over regular government operations, which forced the Congress to appoint a financial control board in 2016," the White House added.
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Protesters and ruling party leaders including Schatz have rejected Pierluisi as the islands next governor, saying his work as an attorney for the fiscal control board created conflicts of interest.
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Congress passed PROMESA last year to avert insolvency for Puerto Rico, creating the Fiscal Control Board, a panel of seven financial managers appointed by Congress to oversee the island's budget.
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"Due to the high wind speeds, dust particles are being transported from Rajasthan," said V.K. Shukla, the scientist in charge of the Air Lab at the Central Pollution Control Board.
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The new debt relief law is stirring colonial resentment, as Puerto Rican officials denounced the "junta" — or federal control board — that will soon direct this island's failing governance and finances.
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The bill they have negotiated would establish a financial control board to oversee the island's government and help restructure its debt in federal court, in a process similar to bankruptcy.
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In 22019, Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), which named a fiscal control board to oversee the island's finances and approve its yearly budgets.
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Under the bill, Puerto Rico would be able to restructure its $70 billion in debt, and an outside fiscal control board would be established to oversee the island's troubled finances.
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It's worth noting that Washington, D.C.'s fiscal control board in the 1990s — perhaps the best analogy for Puerto Rico today — was not given the power to reduce debt obligations.
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A fiscal control board designed to create a new government "of the hedge funds, by the hedge funds, and for the hedge funds," is an affront to basic democratic principles.
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That is coupled with a February court ruling that struck down the way appointments are made to the fiscal control board that oversees the island's recovery from its fiscal crisis.
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Therefore, regardless of a federal financial-control board, government spending will have to increase unless the issue of vested pension benefits is examined as part of a debt-restructuring process.
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California's State Water Resources Control Board voted in July to use more of the state's water allocations for preserving fish populations, meaning farmers would get less than they were receiving.
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California's State Water Resources Control Board voted in July to use more of the state's water allocations for preserving fish populations — meaning farmers would get less than they were receiving.
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Because the referendums are nonbinding, a no vote by residents would not preclude the five-person mosquito control board from moving forward, but it would certainly make it politically difficult.
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The design of the cost-control board was legally questionable, but it represented an effort to cap the growth of America's largest entitlement program, and Republicans replaced it with nothing.
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After decriminalizing, the first inquiries Portugal received from the International Narcotics Control Board — the quasi-judicial UN oversight body established by the UN drug convention system — were sharp and scolding.
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Last November, Maruti Gouda and the community partners wrote the first of five detailed letters to the district's deputy commissioner and the regional branch of the state pollution control board.
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The basic framework of the bill that would establish an outside fiscal control board that would help restructure Puerto Rico's $70 billion in debt is largely expected to remain intact.
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A vote for the bill was "a vote to authorize an unelected, unchecked and all powerful control board to determine Puerto Rico's destiny for a generation or more," Menendez declared.
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The federal fiscal control board charged with overseeing Puerto Rico's financial crisis had petitioned a federal judge to appoint Noel Zamot to run the utility on the board's behalf. Gov.
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Under PROMESA, a fiscal control board under control of Congress was named to oversee finances for the island, which was about $72 billion in debt before hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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But Ms. Mandarano said the city refused to withdraw the violations, and she is preparing for a hearing before the Environmental Control Board, which handles Buildings Department cases, in February.
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He and his neighbors suspect the corrosion damage is caused by chemicals in the air, though the local air pollution control board said it was not aware of these complaints.
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Of the 22 major ashrams surveyed by the Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board in Rishikesh and nearby Haridwar last year, only five had sewage treatment plants, according to the Hindustan Times.
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"We do everything here according to guidelines from the United Nations," says Khandsuren, referring to rules drawn up by its specialist drugs control agency, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
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He said it was up to the International Narcotics Control Board, a quasi-judicial body established by the first convention, to determine whether countries were in line with the three treaties.
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The pollution control board of Tamil Nadu said the smelter, which was shut pending renewal of its operating license, was found last week to be preparing to resume production without permission.
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Any new legislation unveiled after the House returns on Tuesday would be expected to adhere to the framework of original legislation that subjects Puerto Rico's finances to an outside control board.
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Alberta's New Democrat Premier Rachel Notley said the Alberta Gaming & Liquor Control Board, which is the distributor for all liquor retailers in the province, will immediately stop importing British Columbia wine.
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Pelosi and Ryan were in frequent contact throughout the entire process, holding many phone calls and instructing their staffs to meet regularly to discuss specific provisions, such as the control board.
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By a vote of 68-30, senators cleared a bill that would let the island restructure its massive debt load, while establishing an outside control board to police its troubled finances.
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The idea of a fiscal control board, known as La Junta in Puerto Rico, is largely reviled on the island, which is battling rampant outmigration and a 45 percent poverty rate.
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A fiscal control board together with bankruptcy protection might certainly be helpful in that endeavor by exerting budget discipline and by avoiding a debt-related free-for-all in the courts.
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Rivera Schatz, seen by many as having his own gubernatorial aspirations, delivered a scathing speech on the Senate floor Thursday panning Pierluisi for his connections to the territory's fiscal control board.
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In July, the California Water Resources Control Board released a final draft plan for water in the San Joaquin River, which brings runoff from the Sierra Nevada toward San Francisco Bay.
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A patent of the drone grenade issued on Tuesday describes how such a device could work: As the round nears the target, a signal from a control board activates a servo.
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That's what happened to Mr. Peabody's in September; owner Brie Cardosa told the San Diego Reader that she's only recently finished paying that $3,000 to the California Alcohol Beverage Control board.
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If air pollution stays at this level for more than 48 hours, authorities will implement emergency measures for the first time this year, a Central Pollution Control Board official told CNN.
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The control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances is seeking more authority over the billions headed the island's way, including the power to review big contracts and randomly inspect smaller ones.
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The nonsensical ban was instituted by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board last month, when the board decided that only beer could be served by the pitcher within the state's borders.
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"This series of storms has done more than make a dent in the drought, which is a huge relief," said Felicia Marcus, the head of the State Water Resources Control Board.
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The bill would establish an outside fiscal control board to help steer the island's finances, and in turn the territory would gain the ability to restructure its debt through the courts.
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Wynn's company, the gaming board complaint says, admitted to the control board it did not enforce company policies and procedures when it came to sexual misconduct allegations against Wynn, the complaint says.
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At the local pollution control board office, the member secretary Satyanarayana Reddy said the J&J plant had all the required approvals and he was not sure why it hadn't started production.
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In late May, New York's Public Authorities Control Board unanimously approved a $485.5 million grant, part of the total $750 million the state will spend to construct and equip the humongous facility.
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A hearing had even been scheduled for Thursday, just before Mr. Hewett-Brown was killed, related to a $200 fine by the Environmental Control Board for problems with the elevators' directional lights.
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The U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday passed legislation creating a federal control board to help Puerto Rico cope with its crippling debt, and sent the bill to the Senate for consideration.
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If the control board is serious about helping the people of Puerto Rico, it has no choice but to reject this predatory debt as illegitimate and force creditors to take a haircut.
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Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and some critics of the bill have expressed concerns that a control board appointed by Washington might not have the Caribbean island's best interests in mind.
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The U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation creating a federal control board to help Puerto Rico cope with its debt, and sent the bill to the Senate for consideration.
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House lawmakers are mulling a bill that would set up an outside control board for the island's finances and allow it to restructure its debt, which now totals more than $70 billion.
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Under the legislation, Puerto Rico's finances would be subject to review by an outside control board and the island would be given the power to restructure its debt through the legal process.
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He currently serves: as president of SwanJohnson, LLC, a consulting firm; vice president of the International Narcotics Control Board; and as senior advisor to Avascent International, a strategy and management consulting firm.
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House lawmakers are mulling a bill that would set up an outside control board for the island's finances and allow it to restructure its debt, which now totals more than $2900 billion.
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Protesters had not been highly critical of Pierluisi before Friday but expressed disgust with the succession process and Pierluisi's ties to the federal control board that has promoted cutbacks on the island.
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"We must never give an unelected control board the power to make life and death decisions for the people of Puerto Rico without any meaninigful input from them at all," Sanders wrote.
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But the federal government recently imposed a control board to manage the commonwealth's finances, and a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed the supremacy of the U.S. Congress over Puerto Rico's legislature.
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Still, the governor acknowledged that saving money to pay for a catastrophe remains a challenge for his strapped government, whose bankrupt finances have been overseen by a federal control board since 2016.
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Among new restrictions on the relief is a requirement Puerto Rico's government get approval for aid spending from the island's Fiscal Control Board, a federally-appointed agency for restructuring the territory's debt.
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Among new restrictions on the relief is a requirement Puerto Rico's government get approval for aid spending from the island's Fiscal Control Board, a federally-appointed agency for restructuring the territory's debt.
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Matt St. John, executive officer of the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in the heart of marijuana country, said his agency is planning to regulate pesticide use by marijuana farmers.
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Beyond measures to help it restructure its debt and beyond imposing upon the island a control board, Congress needs to ask itself what it might do to make the island more competitive.
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The lone regulator on the panel, Nevada Gaming Control Board member Terry Johnson, said the next challenge for the industry that fuels the Silver State's economy is the legalization of recreational marijuana.
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The proposed bill would impose a new outside control board to oversee the island's finances, and also give Puerto Rico the ability to restructure some of its $72 billion in outstanding debt.
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Ricardo Rosselló (D), San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (D) and Ponce Mayor María "Mayita" Meléndez (D), as well as local business leaders, nongovernmental organizations and the island's Fiscal Control Board. Rep.
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What's next: Mr. Cuomo has said that the Public Authorities Control Board must vote on the development plan for Amazon, which is expected to bring 25,000 to 40,000 jobs to the city.
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Washington (CNN Business)The federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances on Friday released a plan that would cut the island's debt by more than 60% and rescue it from bankruptcy.
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Instead, they recommended appointing a federal control board, saying that this was more likely to resolve the island's debt in the short term and prevent it going further into debt in the future.
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"While we're certainly well situated compared to past years, we've learned that things can change suddenly," Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, said at a hearing Wednesday in Sacramento.
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However, data from California's Air Resources Control Board shows methane levels at Aliso Canyon, which had been on a downward trend since the leak was fixed, spiked around the time gas reinjections resumed.
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Ricardo Rossello and a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico&aposs finances are currently in court fighting over two different versions of this fiscal year&aposs budget, with Rossello rejecting numerous austerity measures.
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Now, a control board imposed by the U.S. government through Congress' PROMESA legislation is preparing to take over decision-making that will determine the future of all Puerto Ricans living on the Island.
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We know this because an investigation by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario quality assurance team found out that some of the gin was a little more ginny than it should have been.
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Hatch, a Utah Republican and chair of the Senate committee with oversight on Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis, in December co-sponsored a bill to bring the island's finances under a federal control board.
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The control board will remain in place and need to approve all city budgets until all of the long term obligations it created are paid off as well, which will occur in 2023.
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Felicia Marcus, head of California's State Water Resources Control Board, says conservation saves money and buys time; better water-use monitoring would help still more, as could more projects to collect run-off.
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The controls are all hooked up to an Arduino microcontroller board, which uses the inputs from the control board to trigger Python scripts, which are then input into Kerbal through the kRPC mod.
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The bill would put Puerto Rico's financial affairs under a powerful federal control board, despite warnings from elected officials in Puerto Rico that heavy-handed oversight from Washington would have unacceptable colonial connotations.
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"New York City has $3.53 billion of retiree health obligations all by itself," said Richard Ravitch, the former lieutenant governor of New York State and an informal adviser to Detroit's financial control board.
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Last year the federal government passed PROMESA, a law that, among other things, created a control board to help the island accomplish some genuine reforms and try to get the economy growing again.
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Congress is now treating Puerto Rico as its colony, bluntly exercising plenary powers upon our people, especially with the imposition of a fiscal control board and its supreme power over our national budget.
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A.G. Burnett, the chairman of the control board, said that a task force was formed several years ago so that his agency, law enforcement agencies and the casino operators could share best practices.
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" Wagering on those events must be approved by Nevada's gaming control board, and only if the event meets seven criteria, including that the outcome "would be generated by a reliable and independent process.
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North Americans consume about 80 percent of the world's prescription opioids and Canada is one of the highest per capita consumers, behind only the United States, according to the International Narcotics Control Board.
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Before they were reduced to a primal struggle for food, water and escape, residents thought they had hit rock bottom when a financial control board took power last year under emergency federal law.
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College and professional football remain the No. 1 betting attraction for gamblers in Nevada, accounting for nearly 37 percent of dollars wagered, said Michael Lawton, an analyst for the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
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Nadler told The Hill he was most surprised by the structure of the Fiscal Control Board, an oversight organization imposed by Congress over the territory in 85033 to oversee Puerto Rico's fiscal health.
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Ricardo Rosselló (D) had announced in January they would close 305 schools after an evaluation period, in keeping with the island's fiscal plan approved by the Fiscal Control Board, El Nuevo Día reported.
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This "super" control board would have the authority to restructure debts under the territories clause and may also have the power to reorder Puerto Rico's hierarchy of payments in favor of government pensioners.
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On Wednesday a women's advocacy group called Ultra Violet said they would fly a plane banner over the Nevada Gaming Control Board meeting to urge the regulatory body to revoke Wynn's gaming license.
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In the plant's own report to the Texas Air Control Board, which regulated air emissions at the time, Union Carbide said it released 940 tons of vinyl chloride into the air in 1975.
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"What happened after the local control board disappeared is painfully known to all of us, as we sit here today, trying to find constructive solutions for a re-enacted Puerto Rico crisis," he said.
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Poison hemlock can grow up to 12 feet tall and has small, white flowers which "occur in 4 to 8 inch umbrella shaped clusters," according to the Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board (NWCB).
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On the other side of the Gulf Coast, in Harrison County, Mississippi, where Biloxi is located, the mosquito control board has a staff of 10 and a budget of about half a million dollars.
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After an article in The New York Times about the glass-and-mahogany display cases, new violations were issued in July, which led to a hearing at the city's Environmental Control Board on Thursday.
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Vedanta said on Tuesday its application for renewal of consent to operate its copper smelting plant, one of India's biggest, in the state of Tamil Nadu, was rejected by the state pollution control board.
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Knocking on doors: In April, the mosquito control board and New Orleans Health Department teamed up with local partners and went home-to-home in the city's high-risk neighborhoods to educate the public.
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According to India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), in 96.13 the water contained at times 1.6bn faecal coliform bacteria per 100ml—more than 3m times the CPCB'S "desirable" bathing limit of 500 per 100ml.
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Protesters and leaders of the ruling party who seek to retain power in the 2020 elections have all rejected his chosen successor: a lawyer who worked for the unpopular fiscal control board, Pedro Pierluisi.
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The departure of Rossello began a succession battle, with leaders of his ruling party opposing Pierluisi on grounds his work for the control board, known for targeting pensions and bonuses, posed conflicts of interest.
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Data from the Central Pollution Control Board showed the air quality index, which measures the concentration of poisonous particulate matter, hit 469 in parts of Delhi on Tuesday, up from 299.4 a week ago.
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But one enterprising player, Jeff Rodgers, has taken Kerbal Space Program to the obvious extreme, with a custom-built control board meant to evoke the button-and-switch-filled panels of real-life spacecraft.
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To quote the title of one of the academic articles that inspired the control board idea, it is a "dictatorship for democracy" in the form of a temporary, undemocratic institution designed to restore order.
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While computing its air quality index (AQI), India's federal pollution control board takes into consideration sulfur dioxide and PM 2.5 - particles which are formed in the atmosphere by reactions with chemicals like sulfur dioxide.
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"As you can see from our numbers, Nevada continues to be the market leader in sports betting," Sandra Douglass Morgan, chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, said in an email statement to CNBC.
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He argued that one of the bill's main provisions, which establishes an outside control board to steer the island's finances, effectively amounts to colonialism, as outside experts dictate the island's affairs to its residents.
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Nevada state regulators have opened an investigation into sexual misconduct accusations by former and current employees against Wynn, Karl Bennison, enforcement chief for the Nevada Gaming Control Board, said in an email to Reuters.
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While computing its air quality index (AQI), India's federal pollution control board takes into consideration sulphur dioxide and PM 2.5 - particles which are formed in the atmosphere by reactions with chemicals like sulphur dioxide.
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But when the Commonwealth government instead pleaded for increased powers under Chapter 9 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the Republican-controlled Congress responded by imposing a federal control board to oversee the island's finances.
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This year's annual May Day strike by unions, teachers and retirees was set against the backdrop of forthcoming reductions in pensions and a reduction in the public workforce required by the federal control board.
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The fires, combined with car exhaust, smokestack emissions and the burning of garbage, contribute to pollution levels that often hover in the "severe" category, the highest level designated by the Central Pollution Control Board.
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If the island is to emerge from its current malaise anytime soon, the control board needs to get serious about making necessary reforms, and also send a clear signal to markets of this intent.
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Instead, it establishes an outside control board to monitor the island's finances, and allows the island to go to court to try and restructure some of its debt if voluntary negotiations with creditors fail.
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They should also be complimented for insisting that an undisciplined Puerto Rican government needs to have a control board imposed upon it, especially if it is unable to balance its budget on its own.
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Those critics got new hope earlier this week when New York State Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens, who is a vocal critic of HQ2, was recommended to serve on the Public Authorities Control Board.
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Strengthening a fiscal control board to squeeze a broke government from a battered country is not optimal and will just exacerbate the current economic depression, with more defaults in mortgages and lower consumption levels.
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Now the Keys mosquito control board commission is scouting new locations on the chain of islands and Oxitec is holding discussion with the federal agency about the changes, said Oxitec's senior scientist, Derric Nimmo.
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In spite of the rain, the State Water Resources Control Board is recommending that the state government keep some recent water conservation rules in place beyond their planned expiration date at the end of January.
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Originally set up to deal with opium abuse in the 1920s, a global agency called the International Narcotics Control Board today regulates how much opioid product, including synthetic ones, each country can produce or purchase.
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Following months of internal wrangling, the U.S. House of Representatives, on Thursday passed legislation creating a federal control board to help Puerto Rico cope with crippling debt that is wreaking havoc throughout the island's economy.
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However, most experts say that at some point the administration will have to seek approval of the state Public Authorities Control Board, which consists of representatives of the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker.
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One of the biggest liabilities for a promoter is to allow alcohol into their spaces, because then you are involving whatever liquor control board—whatever organization that governs alcohol within your community—into your space.
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"I think the discussion on the Jamaican case will take some time and some thinking," said Werner Sipp, president of the International Narcotics Control Board, the quasi-judicial body that oversees the international drug conventions.
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"At the end of the day, the real virtue and vice of this bill is the strength of the control board," Height Securities analyst Daniel Hanson, who follows Puerto Rico closely, said in an interview.
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Today, the New York State Financial Control Board functions only in an advisory capacity, with New York City required to submit an annual financial plan before the beginning of each fiscal year for board review.
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Under the current approach from on high, however, the Amazon HQ also had to be approved by the Public Authorities Control Board (PACB), comprised of gubernatorial appointees mostly made in consultation with the state legislature.
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But the $5.1 billion, 600-mile project, after clearing a formidable gauntlet of federal and state regulatory hurdles, has run headlong into obstruction by an obscure body known as the Virginia State Water Control Board.
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The air quality index, which measures the concentration of poisonous particulate matter, has hit 331 in parts of Delhi on a scale where anything above 100 is considered unhealthy by the Central Pollution Control Board.
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Approval of the Act's federal control board took only seven months from the first bill to its final approval, while discussion concerning Puerto Rico's territorial status has been near stagnant for the last six decades.
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It has been clear for months that the federal government needs to give Puerto Rico a way to restructure its $72 billion debt and impose a financial control board to oversee decisions by local lawmakers.
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The State Water Resources Control Board wants to raise the flow of the San Joaquin and the tributary Merced, Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers to 40 percent of their natural flow during the critical spring months.
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On Monday, New York State Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens, who is a vocal critic of HQ2, was recommended to serve on the Public Authorities Control Board, according to a letter obtained by CNN Business.
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According to state officials, the most clear path to fight the deal would be through votes by the state legislature and through the state Public Authorities Control Board who has to unanimously approve the subsidy package.
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The UN's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is based in the Austrian capital, as is the CND and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a quasi-judicial body created under the UN drug conventions system.
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This week, the California Air Resources Control Board (CARB) announced the state had reduced its carbon emissions by 19903% since 2004, dropping below 1990 levels for the first time, and reaching its target four years early.
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Inadequate access The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) estimates that more than three quarters of the world population (5.5 billion) have inadequate access to pain-relieving medicine for HIV/AIDS, cancer and even childbirth.
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One major complexifier to Amazon's New York City campus is the nomination of state senator Michael Gianaris, whose Queens district includes Long Island City, to the Public Authorities Control Board, which needs to approve the deal.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Air quality in New Delhi plummeted to a dangerous level on Wednesday, putting residents at risk, mainly due to dust storms from western India, a senior official at the pollution control board said.
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Canada's most populous province is the first to respond to the federal government's move to legalize use by mid-2018, saying it will create a cannabis control board to manage all aspects of the retail trade.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's top court has issued a rare warrant against the chief of the country's pollution control board in the decade-old case of stone workers in Gujarat state who died of silicosis.
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One woman I spoke to, Christina Toms, a senior environmental scientist at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, said a lack of connectivity may actually be discouraging some women from venturing into backcountry.
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The House Natural Resources Committee, which oversees U.S. territories, is holding a hearing Tuesday on setting up a financial control board to help restructure the island's massive debt, an idea also backed by the Obama administration.
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J. Steven Hart, who formerly served as the chairman of law and lobbying firm Williams & Jensen, advocated at the EPA for Coca-Cola, the Financial Oversight and Management Control Board of Puerto Rico and Smithfield Foods.
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Some labor unions and Senator Bernie Sanders are also opposing the bill because of its labor provisions and because the financial control board would be able to override many decisions made by the island's elected lawmakers.
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A report published in February from the International Narcotics Control Board, a United Nations agency, showed that most growth in the use of opioid analgesics has been in North America, Central and Western Europe, and Oceania.
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Billionaire Anil Agarwal-controlled Vedanta said on Tuesday its application for renewal of consent to operate the plant, one of India's biggest, in the state of Tamil Nadu, was rejected by the state pollution control board.
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In a world of bad options, a temporary takeover of the commonwealth's fiscal policies by a control board (or fiscal authority) appointed by Congress would be an approach vastly superior to a retroactive Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
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Such a control board was the basic approach used to extricate New York City from fiscal disaster in the 1970s, and was used also to reform fiscal policies in the District of Columbia in the 85033s.
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Bishop has consistently maintained that the changes to the bill will be minor and that the overall framework -- establishing an outside fiscal control board for the island and giving it debt restructuring powers -- will remain intact.
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Opponents of the deal hope to sway the Public Authorities Control Board, which may have to approve aspects of the plan, though state officials are debating if and when the move would face such a vote.
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Asked whether the law needed to be tweaked to give the heavily damaged island more time to pay back its loans, Bishop replied: "I don't think so," adding that Congress granted the control board wide latitude.
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This is not an unfounded premonition as the numbers included in the island's fiscal plan, and approved by the federally appointed Fiscal Control Board, affirm that the economy will continue to deteriorate during the next decade.
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On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board closed all 600 of its stores, making it the first state to cut off the sale of spirits entirely (although beer and wine are still available in grocery stores).
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Nevertheless, four years of political turmoil, heavy emigration, fiscal chaos, and a recently imposed federal control board have provided a ripe environment to prey on voters' fears of further cuts in federal funding or economic instability.
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In 1998, several years before Jacobson's trial, an agent with Nevada's Gaming Control Board was sentenced on a racketeering charge after designing a computer program that rigged slot machines in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe.
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Bishop has consistently maintained that the changes to the bill will be minor and that the overall framework — establishing an outside fiscal control board for the island and giving it debt restructuring powers — will remain intact.
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That includes blocking spending on the island's electrical grid, suspending its $15-an-hour minimum wage for federally funded relief work and requiring budget plans to be submitted to Puerto Rico's federally mandated fiscal control board.
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"It's worth taking a moment to be grateful for all the rain and snow out there," Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, told reporters on a conference call after the governor's announcement.
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But one of the lingering concerns from Democrats is that an outside control board could order further budget cuts on the island at a time when the Zika virus puts many of its residents at risk.
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So we thought this would be a good time to talk to Felicia Marcus, the chairwoman of California's Water Resources Control Board (you can call her the Water Czar.) This interview has been edited and condensed.
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Nevada state regulators opened an investigation into sexual misconduct accusations by former and current employees against Steve Wynn, said Karl Bennison, enforcement chief for the Nevada Gaming Control Board, in an email to Reuters in January.
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Instead, they recommended appointment of a federal control board, saying it would have a better chance of resolving Puerto Rico's debt in the short term and preventing the island from falling into debt again in the future.
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He and others who testified before the House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs said a strong control board could set the stage for an eventual restructuring of all of Puerto Rico's $3.53 billion debt.
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Washington (CNN)Washington's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board opened the door this week to hearing a challenge to President Donald Trump's liquor license at his Washington hotel over claims that he doesn't meet the city's "good character" requirements.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government on Tuesday issued a decree moving the Financial Activities Control Board (Coaf), which monitors nefarious financial activity such as money laundering, into a new Financial Intelligence Unit under central bank control.
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The pollution control board of the southern state of Tamil Nadu said the smelter, which was shut pending renewal of its operating licence, was found last week to be carrying out activity to resume production without permission.
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Data from the government's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed the air quality index, which measures the concentration of poisonous particulate matter, was an average of 449 on Monday, only slightly better than the 450 on Sunday.
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Last year, the California State Water Resources Control Board formed a team to pursue environmental crime investigations against cannabis growers who pollute waterways, a problem that has existed for decades, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
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Jonathan Shivazi, senior assistant surveyor in the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, said parents should ensure that their land is transferred to younger family members before they die, with the help of the land control board.
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A.G. Burnett, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, said in a telephone interview on Monday that a task force was set up among regulators and law enforcement officials a few years ago to discuss security issues.
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On Friday, C.S. Vaidyanathan, the lawyer for the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, questioned the power of the expert panel to decide on whether the ban on the smelter in the southern town of Thoothukudi be lifted.
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What the circumstances warrant, instead, is a federal intervention into the fiscal affairs of Puerto Rico, and therefore a strong financial control board like that imposed in the mid-85033s on another territory – the District of Columbia.
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Last June, Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), which created a framework for Puerto Rico to reorganize its debt under the supervision of a fiscal control board and U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
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Some Republicans, including the House speaker, Paul Ryan, are supporting a bill, called the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, that would authorize a financial control board and allow Puerto Rico to restructure its debt.
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In addition to creating and implementing a blueprint for fiscal recovery, a Control Board will end the gamesmanship that is aimed at nothing more than giving the governor a free pass to avoid paying the Commonwealth's debt.
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" Blair Garber — who served as the chairman of the Illinois Lottery Control Board and was a member of the state's Republican Central Committee — stepped down from both roles following the comments, The State-Journal Register reported. "Mr.
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Much of the debate in Congress has centered on some combination of heightened oversight of the island's finances by some sort of fiscal control board and some ability to let the island restructure some of its debt.
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" But Rishikesh has just one municipal sewage treatment plant, which was commissioned in 1984 and has a capacity of six million liters a day—and which the country's Central Pollution Control Board calls "insufficient for present population.
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Activists in the area were able to get the company shut down after filing a complaint to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), which concluded the plant was indeed releasing a mysterious blue dye into the Kasadi river.
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PREPA, the island's bankrupt power utility, and the governor have argued that the utility should maintain control, while a fiscal control board created by U.S. Congress last year to restructure the island's finances has also jockeyed for control.
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RELATED: Trump resists calls to disclose his tax returns In Pennsylvania, Trump's attorneys included tax returns from 2000 through 2004 in a set of documents that the state's Gaming Control Board stamped as "received" on February 9, 2006.
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The officials also said they knew that any legislative help would come at a stiff price: Puerto Rico would have to submit to a federal control board, something viewed by some on the island as colonialist-style interference.
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The idea of a fiscal control board, known colloquially as La Junta in Puerto Rico, is largely reviled on the island, which has a 45 percent poverty rate and whose chronic economic slump has helped spur rampant outmigration.
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Sánchez was operating as a private citizen — he'd left his post on Puerto Rico's fiscal control board in 2017 — but was still in the now-leaked chat with Rosselló and had direct access to high-ranking government officials.
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Levels of PM 2.5, tiny particulate matter that reaches deep into the lungs, more than doubled within a few hours to 103 micrograms per cubic meter in the city's worst affected parts, India's Central Pollution Control Board said.
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In exchange for letting Puerto Rico restructure its debt in a federal process similar to bankruptcy, it requires the island's government to submit to the decisions and oversight of a financial control board that would manage the restructuring.
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In May, the territory activated Title III of PROMESA, a bankruptcy-like procedure that gave full control of Puerto Rican finances to the fiscal control board and subjected outstanding bond payments to the oversight of a federal judge.
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For their part, Republican members of Congress put much store on the imposition of a mid-1990s New York City-style financial control board that would exert the budget discipline that the island has been so sorely lacking.
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"She supports the legislation in Congress to help Puerto Rico, although, like myself, with serious objections to the anti-democratic parts of the measure that would impose a fiscal control board," Padilla said of Clinton in his statement.
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The State Water Resources Control Board, which took testimony at a workshop on Wednesday, will decide next month whether to modify the rules, which have led to dry lawns and empty swimming pools as residents aimed to conserve.
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Many factors play into this crisis, but I would argue that the International Narcotics Control Board ( INCB), an independent monitoring agency established by the UN, is a fundamental cause of untreated pain in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Members of the investigatory chamber of UEFA's financial control board, a group set up to analyze the accounts of clubs suspected of breaking strict cost-control regulations, met two weeks ago in Nyon, Switzerland, to finalize their conclusions.
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To gain access to $8.2 billion in recovery money and $8.3 billion in disaster prevention funds, Puerto Rico will have to submit budget plans to its federally mandated fiscal control board, which will track where the money goes.
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Under former premier Kathleen Wynne, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario was to have a monopoly of weed sales in the province, with 220 stores to open in 22018, followed by 80 in 2019 and 150 by 2020.
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Under former premier Kathleen Wynne, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario was to have a monopoly of weed sales in the province, with 40 stores to open in 203, followed by 80 in 2019 and 150 by 2020.
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WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday was poised to pass legislation creating a federal control board to help Puerto Rico cope with a crippling debt that already is wreaking havoc throughout the island's economy.
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But Poseidon still needed to secure 24 permits from state agencies, such as approval from the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board for the plant's national pollutant discharge elimination system, which is required by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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McAuliffe specifically asked regulators to propose a rule for the state air pollution control board that would enable Virginia to participate in a multi-state carbon permit trading program such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative for northeastern states.
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The state Water Resources Control Board voted to end mandatory conservation of up to 36 percent in many communities, moving instead to a system under which only regions where a shortage of supply is anticipated will have to conserve.
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Six of the 23 major S&P sectors were higher, with the health index up 250 percent after a report said Medicare spending levels did not exceed targets and did not warrant the formation of a cost-control board.
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In 2016, Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, or Promesa, which among other things established a control board with broad powers to run Puerto Rico's finances until it can be returned to fiscal stability.
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Top radio personalities, already angry over Congress imposing a control board to run the territory's finances, accused federal officials of "colonialism" and reminded listeners that the military tested Agent Orange on Puerto Rico's jungles before deploying it in Vietnam.
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This should preclude any fiscal control board from imposing any debt haircut concomitant to its spending and tax reforms; giving them that ancillary power would be a step too far and could end up being a backdoor super-restructuring.
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But railcar engineers say there could be an "undetectable failure" in the control board for the 4000-series railcars, which may result in improper speed commands being given to train operators whenever the car is in the lead position.
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In September, Puerto Rico officials unveiled the sweeping Puerto Rico Fiscal and Economic Growth Plan (FEGP), which included cuts to teacher pensions, a new financial control board and restructuring $18 billion of debt due in the coming five years.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Wynn Resorts said it has agreed to an undisclosed settlement in response to a disciplinary complaint filed by the Nevada Gaming Control Board following a series of sexual misconduct claims against former chief executive Steve Wynn.
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"I hope the control board, the overseer in terms of fiscal stability, doesn't see this as an opportunity to amass more unelected power of the lives of the people of Puerto Rico," Grijalva said in a statement Thursday morning.
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Some might say that's just Vegas, but aside from potentially alienating half its visitors, Nevada is seeking to tighten regulations to help protect employees from harassment that is "well overdue," according to Nevada's Gaming Control Board Chair Sandra Morgan.
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Instead, an unelected control board, composed of individuals who do not understand the intricacies, backgrounds, and demographics of Puerto Rico, and appointed by a government for which the people of Puerto Rico have no vote, would "govern" Puerto Rico.
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Delhi's air quality index, which measures the concentration of poisonous particulate matter, averaged 420 on Tuesday morning, slightly better than 449-450 the previous two days - the worst this year - data from the government's Central Pollution Control Board showed.
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For example, the House bill would require five of the seven members of the financial control board to allow Puerto Rico to restructure its debt and then give a minority of creditors the ability to block a restructuring plan.
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The American delegation to the International Narcotics Control Board, a United Nations agency, "uses frightening war-on-drugs rhetoric," said Meg O'Brien, the founder of Treat the Pain, an advocacy group devoted to bringing palliative care to poor countries.
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In another development, State Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens, an outspoken critic of the deal, is no longer nominated to to sit on the Public Authorities Control Board, which would have the ability to deep-six any final deal.
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The air quality index, which measures the concentration of poisonous particulate matter in the air, hit 451 on a scale where the maximum reading is 123, and where anything above 100 is considered unhealthy by the Central Pollution Control Board.
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In such a scenario, that argument could help establish a legal precedent that Puerto Rico is not a sovereign entity, possibly to justify imposing a federal control board or some other mechanism to address Puerto Rico's roughly $70 billion in debt.
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According to the publication, some elements of the deal will be reviewed by state legislators through the Public Authorities Control Board, which requires unanimous approval for some aspects of the deal, like part of the proposed tax grants to Amazon.
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The regulatory inquiry was revealed on Tuesday in a statement that CNBC and several other news outlets attributed to Nevada Gaming Control Board Chair Becky Harris, whose agency oversees enforcement of casino and gambling operations and licensing in the state.
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The Swiss company, which sells Arrowhead bottled water sourced from Arrowhead Springs in the San Bernardino mountains, has been accused by the State Water Resources Control Board of lacking the right permit to withdraw so much water from the national forest.
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Before Hurricane Maria hit, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), the island's largest public university, had already been singled out by the Fiscal Control Board (imposed on Puerto Rico in 2016 due to its financial crisis) for steep budget cuts.
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"When I first met Kanye, he was recording that song 'Flashing Lights'—I walked into the studio and he was behind the control board, and this woman was singing one of the sections of the song," Kellison tells the site.
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This makes it all the more striking that their most powerful ally against the board might well be an infamous New York hedge fund, whose lawsuit could bring the control board crashing down, and perhaps even alter Puerto Rico's territorial status.
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Several legislators have accused Pierluisi of a conflict of interest because he worked for a law firm that represents a federal control board overseeing the island's finances, a body that has repeatedly clashed with local officials over demands for austerity measures.
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Against this background, it is difficult to see how either the imposition of a control board or the affording of Puerto Rico with Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection would in and of themselves place the island on a higher growth path.
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A New York hedge fund, the owner of a large stock of Puerto Rican debt, has challenged the constitutionality of the federal control board that was put in place last year to essentially run Puerto Rico while it is in crisis.
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A fiscal control board with the ability to make short-term spending, tax and regulatory decisions for a government that long ago abdicated its responsibilities along these lines is a necessary first step toward the federal government assisting the island.
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Considering the upcoming debt service levels, a fiscal control board could bypass our local Constitution (yes, we have a Constitution: big difference with New York City and DC), in order to pay bondholders, while slashing government spending on essential services.
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They are asking Congress to respect the Puerto Rico Constitution regarding the payment of bonds, but to violate the Puerto Rico Constitution regarding home rule by establishing a federal control board and regarding pension payments by disallowing their constitutional protection.
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Republican Representative Jody Hice of Georgia at one point told Weiss during his answers: "You ramble a lot", after questioning the Treasury counselor about whether a control board would be helpful and whether the Treasury wanted up-to-date audited numbers.
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Opponents hope to stop the deal using public pressure, and are looking to what is expected to be a critical vote by an obscure state board, the Public Authorities Control Board, which may have to approve aspects of the plan.
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Last week, Michael Gianaris, the deputy majority leader of the State Senate who represents Long Island City and spoke at the very first Amazon protest after the HQ2 deal was announced, was nominated to serve on the Public Authorities Control Board.
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"Puerto Rico has a long history of inadequate financial controls over regular government operations, which forced the Congress to appoint a financial control board in 26," a spokesperson for the White House Office of Management and Budget said in early February.
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In March, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario issued a recall for Georgian Bay Vodka after officials found that one batch, 654 bottles, had an alcohol content by volume of 81 percent rather than the 40 percent stated on its label.
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The Nevada Gaming Control Board has opened an investigation into Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts and former Republican National Committee finance chief, it said Tuesday, in the wake of a Wall Steet Journal report alleging decades of sexual misconduct.
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He was appointed by the Democrats who took control of the state Senate after elections in November to be on the Public Authorities Control Board, and he could ultimately have the power to essentially veto the deal, according to reports.
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A task force led by the country's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has recommended a ban on all construction activities in the Delhi-NCR region for 10 days beginning November 1 to reduce dust as air quality is expected to deteriorate.
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In December, the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board delayed a vote on the compressor over concerns it would violate civil rights by forcing the historically African-American Union Hill community to bear an unequal burden from pollution and other disruptions.
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Amazon wanted certainty that the next person selected would not be a roadblock: The fate of its campus could not hang on the whims of an unnamed state senator on a board — the Public Authorities Control Board — that few could name.
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It would also require that every single affordable-housing project in New York City that uses the bonds get the approval of the Public Authorities Control Board, a shadowy entity controlled by the governor and the leaders of the Assembly and Senate.
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" The Allied Media conference, she said, "would be the ideal place to gather with Detroiters who have faced an emergency control board of their own and to encourage significant exchange with Puerto Ricans, who are essential to redefining our field of action.
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"Without clearly specified legal protections or priorities, the legislation is demanding a lot of trust from creditors regarding the composition of the federal control board and its ability to effect operational change within the budget," Hanson wrote in a note issued Thursday.
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"I think everybody has acknowledged that a control board is an essential feature," Jim Millstein, a financial adviser to the Puerto Rican government, said in a briefing for staff members of the House of Representatives, which is considering some form of legal help.
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The State Water Resources Control Board report found that Nestlé appears to have rights to 26 acre feet, or about 8.5 million gallons, of water per year — a fraction of the 62.6 million gallons of water Nestle has taken each year for decades.
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Puerto Rico&aposs government said at a federal control board meeting on Tuesday that its cash income has dropped by $1.7 billion, with an additional $1.18 billion reduction in collections for power and water services, which were temporarily demolished by the storm.
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Shops in San Diego, San Jose, the Bay area-towns of Berkeley and Oakland, and Eureka - the heart of Northern California's cannabis country - are among those ready to go on Day One, said Alex Traverso, a spokesman for the state Cannabis Control Board.
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Watch the VICE News documentary Superbugs: The Dark Side of India's Drug Boom Under three UN drug conventions that date back to 1961, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) keeps tabs the licit consumption of controlled substances, including morphine and other opioid analgesics.
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Although a federal control board is now overseeing the finances of our debt-ridden commonwealth, it can't fix the real problem that is holding back our economy: Our government simply does not embrace entrepreneurship in a way that would kick-start job creation.
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The State Water Resources Control Board, which put emergency regulations in place during the drought, has proposed allowing each water district to develop its own conservation plans, based on what its water supplies would be if the drought continued for three more years.
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The group, which included a federal judge, several religious leaders and a former chair of the White House Council on Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships, cited evidence of Trump's character flaws as reason for the control board to pull his hotel's liquor licenses.
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" In September, when Ben Sasse , of Nebraska, who talks a lot about his problems with Trump, was asked the same thing, he said that the "odds are a lot higher that I run for the noxious-weed-control board of Dodge County.
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Despite ayahuasca's legality at the international level, in 2010 the UN-sanctioned International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) recommended that national governments consider criminalizing ayahuasca at a national level, which might partially account for the uptick of ayahuasca legal incidents seen by the ADF.
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Ms. Madigan had filed a similar complaint with the Illinois Pollution Control Board in 2012, which was settled and resulted in Trump Tower being ordered to obtain the permit it had been lacking, pay a fine and comply with environmental laws, prosectors said.
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But the body that monitors international compliance with drug treaties, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), maintains a tone of almost perpetual annoyance in its reports, arguing medical-cannabis schemes are poorly regulated and allow leakage of the drug to recreational users.
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Creating an outside fiscal control board was a top priority of Republicans, who struck a deal earlier this year on a bill that would create the board, while in turn giving the island the ability to restructure its $70 billion in outstanding debt.
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The air quality index of the state-run Central Pollution Control Board showing the concentration of poisonous particulate matter known as PM 2.5 stood at 440, up from 430 on Wednesday, and about 12 times the U.S. government recommended level of 35.
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Above all else, Puerto Rico's financial control board needs to realize that there is no quick fix: Getting the infrastructure of reforms correct is going to take some serious blocking and tackling, which may entail finding a few people with a fresh perspective.
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"What's really remaining is the monthly reporting and the bans on wasteful water use — the obvious stuff like watering so much that it runs into the street, hosing down your driveway," said Felicia Marcus, the head of the Water Resources Control Board.
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"The idea came out of an initial exchange in 2016, where Puerto Ricans from the island traveled to Detroit to gather information and lessons, with the goal of shaping and promoting new narratives around the Fiscal Control Board (PROMESA) in Puerto Rico," said Basilio.
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Puerto Rico officials in September proposed cuts to teacher pensions, a new financial control board and restructuring $18 billion of debt due in the coming five years, as part of a long-anticipated plan unveiled to pull the island out of a wrenching fiscal crisis.
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The Nevada Gaming Control Board, which is one of two regulatory agencies that oversee gaming in the state, has the power to take punitive action against Wynn as an individual, which would not affect the corporation's license in his name, according to the Nevada Independent.
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He represented about half this district before, he's working in Harrisburg now as chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (whatever you do, don't crack down on the Citywide Special, Tim) and he has a lot more Democrats to work with here than next door.
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Nevada casinos falling under the much stricter Nevada Gaming Control Board guidelines (which prohibit non-game related action without prior special approval) don't have quite that much latitude, but the Westgate's offering packet this year still stretched to 375 bets and William Hill's topped 1053.
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So when Rosselló tapped a lawyer who worked for the unpopular fiscal control board, Pedro Pierluisi, as his successor, he was rejected both on the streets and by leaders of the ruling party, who had their eyes on retaining power in the 2020 elections.
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It will now be able to cut during a burst of growth and less steeply, at the discretion of its overseer—a seven-person fiscal control board that was tasked in 2016 with approving the government's budgets in return for negotiating with its creditors.
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Ricardo Rosselló (D) said the fiscal control board imposed by PROMESA had some benefits in terms of forcing his administration to present a fiscal plan, which it did in August, and it fit in with his campaign promise of slashing the size of government.
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But with Puerto Rico carrying $72 billion in debt after decades of borrowing and overspending, and an independent, federally appointed control board poised to take charge of its finances, municipios — with their mayors, employees and government offices — represent one of the island's most intractable problems.
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The air quality index, which measures the concentration of poisonous particulate matter in the air, hit the "severe" level of 451 on a scale where the maximum reading is 500 and where anything above 100 is considered unhealthy by the Central Pollution Control Board.
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"Flushing wipes, paper towels and similar products down toilets will clog sewers and cause backups and overflows at wastewater treatment facilities, creating an additional public health risk in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic," the state's Water Resources Control Board said in a news release.
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Congress has already repealed several unpopular parts of the law as part of last year's tax legislation — most notably the individual mandate, which now expires at the end of this year, but also the Medicare cost-control board (known as the Independent Payment Advisor Board).
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And Politico's Dana Rubinstein notes: Key elements of the plan require the approval of state legislative leaders via an obscure entity called the Public Authorities Control Board... The State Senate and Assembly majorities each have a vote on the board, and so does the governor.
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Consider the Space Shuttle, which had nearly two thousand switches and controls; a far cry from the Vostok-1 control board and display, which had only about 25 switches and controls for cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to use on his historic flight (see the second photo below).
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"The last few years provided the wake-up call of all wake-up calls that water is precious and not to be taken for granted," said Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, one of several state agencies that worked on the proposal.
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"I will defend you, wherever it may be, against the federal government, against the fiscal control board, anyone," Pierluisi told lawmakers on Friday, saying his years as the island's nonvoting delegate in the U.S. Congress and as a private attorney had prepared him for the role.
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The air quality index, which measures the concentration of poisonous particulate matter in the air, hit the "severe" level of 445, on a scale where the maximum reading is 500 and where anything above 100 is considered unhealthy by the Central Pollution Control Board, its website showed.
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Another amendment states that, in the fourth quarter of 2017, Hart lobbied the EPA about "water quality and infrastructure in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria" on behalf of the Financial Oversight and Management Control Board of Puerto Rico, according to one new amendment.
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In her ruling, Braden concluded that the Fiscal Control Board (FCB) is a federal institution, rather than territorial, since it was created by Congress under the 2016 Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), and its board members are appointed at a federal level.
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According to all reports, the bill being hammered out in the House Natural Resources Committee allows for restructuring of the island's debt under the supervision of a control board, gives some of San Juan's pension obligations a serious haircut and includes some significant pro-growth measures.
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"Bernie will restore self-rule in Puerto Rico by ending the reign of greedy Wall Street vulture funds that have a stranglehold on Puerto Rico's future and the undemocratic fiscal control board that has imposed austerity on the people of Puerto Rico," Sanders' campaign told VICE News.
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Every Thursday through Saturday night the eclectic composition is "shaped" by the performer — Stan or his son David — who uses a control board affixed with glow-in-the-dark labels to manipulate it, directing sound from rumbling bass speakers beneath the seats to small horn speakers above.
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The court cited data from the World Health Organization that found the city's air quality to be the world's worst, and a report from the country's Central Pollution Control Board indicating that pollution levels in the region were four or five times as high on Diwali.
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The tuition increase was ratified on Monday by the university based on a plan approved last month by the federal control board that oversees the finances of Puerto Rico's bankrupt government, which is $72 billion in debt because of an economic recession that has lasted 11 years.
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As many as 1,000 community water systems in California may be at high risk of failing to deliver potable water — one out of every three — according to a previously undisclosed estimate by senior officials at the California State Water Resources Control Board, which regulates drinking water.
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As many as 1,000 community water systems in California may be at high risk of failing to deliver potable water — one out of every three — according to a previously undisclosed estimate by senior officials at the California State Water Resources Control Board, which regulates drinking water.
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Twenty-four years later, he was appointed to the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board — and then was stung again, this time by the F.B.I. itself, as he worked a scheme to get a prisoner out of jail in exchange for a cash payment to the governor.
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State Senator Leroy Comrie, a Queens Democrat who recently replaced Mr. Gianaris as the nominee to the obscure but powerful Public Authorities Control Board (it would have had veto power over the Amazon deal), issued a statement on Friday that stressed his willingness to work with Amazon.
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New Orleans Trucks and planes: The city's Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board has an annual budget of $2311 million to control pest populations, and Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced this week that it will be getting an additional $21,603 to target the Yellow Fever and Asian tiger mosquitoes.
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Rather than download the latest app (like Parental Control Board, which literally allows a parent to snoop through every text message that has been received or sent), the study found that parents are more inclined to use low-tech solutions, like taking away a laptop or cell phone.
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The fight following afterward only brought his legitimacy further into question as Williams edged by in a highly controversial majority decision win over Cuban contender Erislandy Lara; the decision was so controversial that the three judges scoring that night were suspended by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board.
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But on Wednesday, the commotion surrounding the delay added only a few minutes of questioning to the meeting of the state board that must formally approve the funding, the Public Authorities Control Board, before representatives of the governor and the two legislative leaders voted in favor of the appropriation.
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A month later, the state's Public Authorities Control Board cut the first installment in half, approving only $15 million after a dispute between the Assembly and the Senate over where the money would come from, touching off worry among New York City officials about the vagaries of the process.
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The rules, adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board, are likely to mean a huge rollback — and in some places, an elimination — of water reduction mandates that have forced people, businesses and governments to curb watering of gardens and lawns, take shorter showers and flush toilets less frequently.
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Given the magnitude of the problem, Congress should vest the control board with wide-ranging powers to approve or reject all government budget and financial plans; enact revenue- and expenditure-side reforms and measures; mobilize and monetize government-owned assets; authorize all additional borrowing; and make key managerial appointments.
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So while there is widespread backing here for the bill, there is a strong and vocal opposition, including by those elected officials who would be forced to govern with a control board looking over their shoulders, union officials, many young people and artists, and advocates for Puerto Rican independence.
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Part of the legal justification for the Puerto Rican control board is that the federal government can pretty much do whatever it wants in Puerto Rico because, in the words of century-old Supreme Court precedent, Puerto Rico belongs to but is not part of the United States.
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New Jersey, whose state athletic control board deputy attorney general, Nick Lembo, told MMAFighting that he found it strange that MMA would be voting to make head strikes more common at a time when the science about head trauma is becoming more common, more conclusive, and more politically significant.
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Mary Kay Bean, a spokesperson for the Michigan Gaming Control Board, said it will take about a year to write and finish the rules for online gambling, daily fantasy sports sites and sports betting, after a bill allowing them was signed into law last month, The Associated Press reported.
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"We must never give an unelected control board the power to balance Puerto Rico's budget on the backs of children, senior citizens, the sick and the most vulnerable people in Puerto Rico while giving the people of Puerto Rico absolutely no say at all in the process," he said.
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That conclusion, presented in a report this week from the State Water Resources Control Board, may ultimately require Nestlé to dramatically reduce the amount of water it takes from the San Bernardino National Forest, and represents a victory for critics who raised alarm about the operation during California's recent crushing drought.
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Tavakoli would instead favor the implementation of a federal control board to oversee the commonwealth, similar to what was put in place 20 years ago for Washington, D.C. "We'd be willing to work constructively in that process and we would be willing to think about alternatives to lawsuits," he said.
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Yes, was also at Simpson's 2013 parole hearingYears on Parole Board: Nine yearsMost recent former job: Senior investigator with the Nevada Department of Public Safety, 15 yearsOther jobs: Agent with Nevada State Gaming Control Board; senior investigator with the Attorney General's OfficeEducation: FBI Academy Ed Gray Position: CommissionerWill attend hearing?
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While not as swift or efficient as the D.C. board, New York's control board achieved its goals by 2628, when the city once again had a balanced budget and had repaid its debts, which was viewed by nearly everyone as a necessary step to assure continued access to financial markets.
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The Supreme Court issued the warrant this week after the head of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) failed to notify the court of steps taken to prevent the deaths of workers from the respiratory disease, according to Radha Kant Tripathy, a lawyer with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
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Crucially, given the imminent missed debt payment, the bill also would bar lawsuits by creditors for nonpayment retroactive to December — to provide Puerto Rico "the breathing room," as Mr. Lew put it, for its government and the control board to restructure the crippling debt and devise a new budget plan.
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What intrigued the University of California researchers here was the apparent gap between labelling and the actual amount of alcohol found in wine, which, based on 127,406 wines tested by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Canada, from 1992 to 2009, may be significantly more than the amount advertised on labels.
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In an eyebrow-raising move, Mr. Cuomo gutted the independence of the Public Authorities Control Board — the body that had the ability to reject the deal for Amazon to build a major complex in Queens — by allowing the governor to remove any board members he decides have acted beyond their powers.
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After initially saying Mr. Hart had not represented clients with business before the E.P.A., Mr. Hart's former firm in June filed new lobbying disclosure forms to acknowledge he had in fact advocated on behalf of Coca-Cola, the Financial Oversight and Management Control Board of Puerto Rico and Smithfield Foods.
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As of 2017, the United States -- a country that makes up less than 913% of the world's population -- had the highest consumption of hydrocodone, hydromorphone and oxycodone in the world, equivalent to about 99%, 43% and 68%, respectively, of the total global consumption, according to the International Narcotics Control Board.
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That's particularly so in states where the government sells wine directly -- like Mississippi or Pennsylvania, where the Liquor Control Board is the country's largest single wine buyer, in turn selling about $1 billion in wine last fiscal year, which helped to send nearly $770 million to the state's general fund.
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Before assuming his current post, last year, he was the head of the Central Pollution Control Board, a national agency that is respected for its professionalism but is frequently unable to enforce the standards that it sets, because the state-level agencies responsible for meeting them are typically corrupt or incompetent.
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Through our reports, we have identified $37 billion of illegitimate debt thus far, and we have called on the control board to cancel this debt in order to ensure that the people of Puerto Rico are not forced to endure further suffering to pay predatory interest and fees to wealthy bankers and investors.
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Others are also under the false impression that merely allowing the Financial Control Board set-up under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) federal law, will provide the necessary independence and structural reforms for the economy to magically bounce back after more than a decade of negative growth.
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Now, in an apparent attempt to enforce this quantity limitation, the Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control Board is considering a new rule that would require anyone who buys beer to take home at a craft brewery to provide their name, address, age, and phone number to the brewery for collection by the governmental agency.
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A group of citizens — with the help of lawyers and the financial backing of Jerry Hirsch, an Arizona-based Republican and chairman of the Lodestar Foundation — asked the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the District of Columbia to review whether the president met the city's "good character" test for holding a liquor license.
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The International Narcotics Control Board, an independent monitor that oversees the implementation of UN drug conventions, estimates that 92% of all morphine, commonly used to control the pain caused by cancer, is consumed in America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and parts of western Europe—which between them hold only 17% of the world's population.
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But even if Congress now cannot induce itself to back away, a fiscal control board able to impose fiscal discipline, but not allowed to interfere with the negotiation process over the commonwealth's existing debts, is the option likely to do the least damage currently, and to preserve the soundest incentives over the longer term.
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A federal control board may succeed in calming the worries of bond investors and hedge funds, and without a doubt the old practice of deficit spending with no checks and balances is unsustainable, but it does absolutely nothing to improve structural issues, economic well-being or, most importantly, citizen say-so in public affairs.
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According to the publication, a group of seven complainants, including a federal judge, several religious leaders, and a former chair of the White House Council on Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships, first filed a complaint in June citing evidence of the president's character flaws as reasons for the control board to deny his hotel's liquor licenses.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The executive director of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico&aposs public finances says there will be a smaller surplus available for creditors because of a new lawsuit filed by a bond insurance company opposing a fiscal plan that aims to pull the U.S. territory out of its economic crisis.
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This island of United States citizens, whose finances are now being overseen by a federal control board, is shackled by around $280 billion in public debt, crushing job losses that are expected to deepen as more government workers are laid off, and an unrelenting exodus that includes many professionals, like doctors, engineers and teachers.
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The tax reform that the House of Representatives approved includes a 20-percent tax on transactions between subsidiaries located in "foreign countries" and their holding companies in the U.S. Puerto Rico is considered part of the U.S. for some concepts (for example, for the imposition of a fiscal control board), but not for taxes.
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Related: Marco Rubio's Billionaire Backer Likes to Sue Poor Countries and Put Profits in Tax Havens "A lot of people here don't trust the political elite to solve this problem, and they would like to see some kind of control board," said Edwin Meléndez, director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.
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Watch the VICE Canada Documentary, The Dark Grey Market: Canadian Cannabis: Ontario's premier has repeatedly said she would like to see legal weed sold alongside alcohol through the province's liquor control board, which she says is "very well-suited to putting in place the social responsibility aspects that would need to be in place" for the product.
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To do so they must deliver a control board made up of appointees that both Puerto Rico and its creditors can respect and trust to make hard decisions, and who have the right skill sets to achieve a successful governmental reform for Puerto Rico – as opposed to partisan selections meant to earn votes or favors down the line.
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Now that Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló has introduced a fiscal proposal that will cope with the island's debt and balance the budget, and our decisions are being disciplined by a federal fiscal control board, we need to start thinking about what it will take to create a sustainable economy where more companies like Señor Paleta can grow.
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Internationally, Washington has little choice but to now preach the convention's flexibility: with four states already running legalized cannabis markets, and 20 others considering some form of legalization in 2016, the US finds itself in the awkward position of defending itself in front of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a quasi-judicial oversight body established by the conventions.
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The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an independent monitor that oversees the implementation of UN drug conventions, estimates that 20113% of all morphine, an opioid commonly used to control the pain caused by cancer, is consumed in America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and parts of western Europe—which between them hold only 22011% of the world's population.
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The hedge fund, Aurelius, has a straightforward claim: The members of the Promesa board were unconstitutionally appointed, and therefore the steps toward a debt restructuring that the control board has taken and plans to take (which would likely force Aurelius to take a haircut on the nearly half a billion dollars of Puerto Rican debt it holds) are invalid.
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But Democratic hopeful Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE has heavily criticized the bill, mainly because of the inclusion of a seven-member control board to oversee the restructuring plan.
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After leaving New York's top transit job in 1991, he was named by Mr. Cuomo to the Financial Control Board, which oversees New York City's fiscal affairs, and served as president of the Partnership for New York City, a business group, before being recruited by Mayor Ken Livingstone to move to London, with an unprecedented base pay of $360,000.
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The Alcohol Beverage Control Board in Washington, D.C., will reportedly consider whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has enough "good character" to run a bar in the city.
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Through a confluence of timing, electoral successes and old-fashioned politics, Mr. Gianaris, one of the deal's most outspoken opponents, is uniquely positioned to stand in its way: On Monday, the new Senate majority leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, nominated him to serve on the Public Authorities Control Board, a little-known state board that must approve the Amazon plan.
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Mr. Cuomo is proposing to give the Public Authorities Control Board — whose three voting members are the governor and the leaders of the State Senate and Assembly, or their designees — the power to approve or veto individual housing projects that use tax-exempt bonds that the state gets from the federal government and then allocates to the city and other municipalities.
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"Today we watched as over and over again Chairman Shuster refused to accept amendments to the AIRR Act that would give consumers and workers a fair seat at the table, implement protections against indiscriminate user fees on passengers and curb the power of the airlines over a private air traffic control board," Americans Against Air Traffic Privatization spokesperson Julia Alschuler said.
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Religious leaders and former judges filed a complaint on Wednesday asking the Washington D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to revoke the Trump International Hotel's liquor license because of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's character.
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After a perfunctory suspension from the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, a failed drug test for testosterone, and a release from the UFC after holding onto Mike Pierce's leg past the breaking point, last fall the Nevada State Athletic Commission handed Palhares a two-year suspension for holding onto a kimura during his WSOF bout with Jake Shields after Steve Mazzagatti tried to end the bout.
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By refusing to broaden the legislature's legalization of abortion in Chile, the Tribunal may avoid some of the unintended or unanticipated consequences that have flowed from the Supreme Court's broad legalization of abortion in the U.S. First and foremost, by leaving the issue to the legislature, the Tribunal will not become the "national abortion control board," as the Supreme Court did in Roe v.
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