{"id":186152,"date":"2022-09-19T07:40:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=186152"},"modified":"2022-09-19T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:43:56","slug":"ministry-of-environment-to-speed-up-bureaucratic-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/09\/19\/ministry-of-environment-to-speed-up-bureaucratic-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Environment to speed up bureaucratic processes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Miguel-Ceara-Hatton-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181970\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Miguel-Ceara-Hatton-Listin-Diario.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Miguel-Ceara-Hatton-Listin-Diario-300x233.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of the Environment gets the most complaints regarding red tape delays, acknowledged President Luis Abinader recently. The Ministry of Environment has a new head since 8 July 2022, following the murder of the previous incumbent Orlando Jorge Mera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Miguel Ceara Hatton says the Ministry is undergoing reforms for increased transparency and environmental permit training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that many persons requesting permits and licenses are not knowledgeable regarding the time needed to produce the studies, such as environmental impact studies, and other documents needed for these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ceara Hatton said that the Ministry of Environment is part of the government\u2019s \u201cZero Bureaucracy\u201d program that calls for streamlining processes. He said three categories of permits are in place: One for the most requested and simple things such as a house in a city; a second for more complex matters; and the third for projects, such as a 1,000 room hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ceara-Hatton told reporters that all three were very different and required a series of studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2022\/09\/15\/gobierno-agilizara-permisos-ambientales\/2065755\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 September 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of the Environment gets the most complaints regarding red tape delays, acknowledged President Luis Abinader recently. The Ministry of Environment has a new head since 8 July 2022, following the murder of the previous incumbent Orlando Jorge Mera. Minister Miguel Ceara Hatton says the Ministry is undergoing reforms for increased transparency and environmental &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/09\/19\/ministry-of-environment-to-speed-up-bureaucratic-processes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186209,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186152\/revisions\/186209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}