The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) celebrates fifteen years as the Executive Agency mandated to manage Jamaica’s land, wood and water. NEPA was established on April 1, 2001

NEPA is the principal institution with responsibility for ambient (outdoor) air quality management and has implemented a National Air Quality Management Programme? The country’s air quality is monitored via several monitoring sites across the island.

The National Environment and Planning Agency prepares Development Orders on behalf of the Town and Country Planning Authority. A Development Order is a legal document which is used to guide development in the area to which it applies.

NEPA was the first government Agency in Jamaica to implement the Applications Management and Data Automation (AMANDA) System? In 2005, NEPA implemented AMANDA, this system electronically manages, tracks and allows for on-line processing of applications for developments received by the Agency.

NEPA establishes partnership with both governmental and non-governmental organizations to ensure the conservation, protection as well as the management of our natural resources, to increase and sustain public education and awareness, and to facilitate research and development.