This Decree, consisting of 13 articles and one Annex, regulates the State Planning for Rural Infrastructures Environmental Licensing. The State Plan aims to promote and support the environmental adequacy of rural properties through the rehabilitation and regularization of the legal reserve, and the areas of permanent preservation, regularization of authorizations, records and related environmental licensing for agro-silvopastoral enterprises. After joining the Plan, owners of rural property must submit their project on Environmental Adequacy and Adjustment to the competent environmental agency, within 120 days prior and justified request, to rural landowners who have formalized the application for membership of the Plan by 11 December 2011. The Project shall also include the measures that will be implemented to recover the declared environmental execution schedule, according to the term made by the competent environmental agency. The Environmental Secretariat (SEMA) will institute sustainable regional programmes in articulation with the organs and entities of the Public Administration and civil society, with the purpose of supporting rural landowners and squatters in the adjustment and environmental regularization of their properties.
Brazil · 2010-04-23