DRNA: 23 deslindes em sete meses, mais que os 18 de todo 2025

On September 13, 2026, El Vocero reported that the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) certified 23 boundary delineations between January and July 31, 2026, a number that already exceeds the 18 certifications of all of 2025. Secretary Waldemar Quiles emphasized that the Auxiliary Secretariat of Planning and Permits maintains about 30 boundary cases assigned to a group of surveyors, with the expectation of processing them before the end of the year. Boundary certification ≠ construction permit. Case assigned to surveyor ≠ boundary already signed.

Quiles, in written statements collected by El Vocero, attributed the increase to initiatives to streamline procedures that impact citizens, “without failing to comply with the requirements established by law and current regulations.” He cited Governor Jenniffer González’s push to “speed up processes that directly affect citizens” and said he had issued instructions to work on pending demarcations, “many of which had been waiting for years.” Secretary’s instruction ≠ waiting time audit. “Years waiting” as an official statement ≠ public list of files attached to this note.

The Spokesperson explains the institute: the boundary marking is the administrative procedure that establishes, through coordinates and other data, the limits between private property and the public domain assets of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone. It is contemplated in Article 2.33 of Regulation No. 4860, adopted on December 29, 1992, concerning the utilization, surveillance, conservation, and administration of territorial waters, submerged lands, and the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone. According to that regulation, the boundary marking determines the limits of properties that border the maritime-terrestrial public domain, pursuant to Law No. 23 of June 20, 1972. Cited legal framework ≠ controversy of a specific property resolved in this piece.

For Borinquen, the September DRNA is not just about the coast: in the same window there are complaints about the old Mayagüez zoo and about the Carolina landfill (Cell C), which other primaries cover on other days. This note does not mix those files. 23 boundary clarifications ≠ 23 endorsements of landfills. Transparency claimed by Quiles ≠ survey presented in a senate hearing.

The comparison 23 versus 18 is the only numerical benchmark of the primary. There is no count of strings in El Vocero, nor a map of municipalities, nor a dollar of tariff. This editorial does not make them up. It also does not treat the 30 pending cases as a noncompliance: according to the secretary, they are work in the queue with an expected completion in 2026. Expectation ≠ certain date for each file.

Primary: El Vocero, September 13, 2026. Hub: DRNA. Topic: politics (public domain management and procedures). Cousin: null. Unique URL. Verify Metro of the same day confirms 23 in 7 months and 30 assigned; not used as source_url.

Closure: Jan 1–Jul 31, 2026; 23 certificates; 18 in 2025; 30 in queue; Regulation 4860; Law 23-1972; Quiles/González cited in writing.

This note from Borinquen adheres to the cited primary source: it does not invent figures, does not turn an argument into a ruling, does not treat a budgetary obligation as a disbursement nor an accusation as a conviction. Obligated ≠ disbursed ≠ theft. Interdict ≠ final judgment. Audit with findings ≠ criminal conviction. Request for funds ≠ Board authorization. Signed contract ≠ measured hydrological or electrical outcome. Figures of clients without service are snapshots from a portal or a report, not a census of duration. Where the primary source remains silent on a number, this text also remains silent.

Reading of the Borinquen institutional batch, window September 3–16, 2026: the primary source rules; the island press only verifies; foreign reports are not stacked to inflate the count. The assigned hub is declared in the deck and in the body. The source_url of this note does not appear in the other thirteen. Words in English for money: million, billion. The prohibited Spanish monetary scale is avoided. If an official document exists and is cited, it is preferred; if the day is thin, another real hub is chosen, an event is not fabricated. The reader of borinquenmade.blog deserves the data, the date, the name of the signer, and the distinction between what was requested, what was authorized, and what was paid.