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Establishes provisions for exceptional cases of public and social interest or with low environmental impact which allow for interventions or suppressions of the vegetation in Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs).
Art. 1 This Resolution defines exceptional cases and the competence of environmental organs to grant authorizations for interventions or the suppression of the vegetation of Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs) in order to undertake construction, plans, activities or projects of public or social interest, or for the undertaking of temporary actions of low environmental impact.
§ 1 The suppression or intervention of vegetation of springs, wetlands, mangroves and dunes original covered with vegetation in Permanent Preservation Areas, foreseen in items II, IV, X and XI of art. 3 of CONAMA Resolution 303 from March 20, 2002 is banned except in cases related to public convenience according to item I of art. 2 of this resolution and in order to allow access to water by people and animals, according to the provisions of § 7, of art. 4 , of Law 4.771 from September 15, 1965.
§ 2 The provisions of line “c” of item I of art. 2 of this Resolution do not apply for the intervention or suppression of vegetation of Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs) in wetlands, beaches, mangroves or dunes foreseen in items IV, X and XI of art. 3 of CONAMA Resolution 303 from March 20, 2002.
§ 3 The authorization for the intervention or suppression of vegetation in springs located within Permanent Preservation Areas, defined in item II of CONAMA Resolution 303 from 2002, is conditioned to the authorization that grants the right to the use of water resources, according to the provisions of art. 12 of Law 9.433 from January 8, 1997.
§ 4 The authorization for the intervention or suppression of vegetation of Permanent Preservation Areas is conditioned to the presentation by the entrepreneur that he/she will comply with all obligations related to these areas.
g) the construction of installations necessary for the collection and conduct of water and treated effluents for private agricultural projects, conditioned to the compliance with criteria and requirements foreseen in §§ 1 and 2 of art. 11 of this Resolution.
III – eventual intervention or suppressions of vegetation with a low environmental impact, conditioned to compliance with the parameters of this Resolution.
IV – the non-existence of aggravation risks such as flooding, erosion of accidental movements of rocks.
Art. 4 o All construction, plan, activity or project of public convenience, social interest or of low environmental impact is conditioned to an authorization issued by the competent environmental organ for the intervention or suppression of vegetation within a Permanent Preservation Area (APP), issued through a proper administrative process according to the terms of this Resolution and according to the standards for the granting of environmental licenses, professionally motivated and conditioned to the observation of applicable environmental standards.
§ 1 The intervention or suppression of the vegetation in a Permanent Preservation Area that is the subject of the heading of this article is conditioned to an authorization issued by the competent state environmental organ and its preceding approval, when applicable, by the federal or municipal environmental organ, except in cases related to § 2 of this article.
§ 2 The intervention or suppression of the vegetation in a Permanent Preservation Area located within an urban area is conditioned to the authorization issued by the municipal environmental organ, if the municipality possesses an Environment Council, of deliberative character and Master Plan or Legal Urban Directives in the case of municipalities with less than twenty thousand inhabitants, through previous approval by competent state environmental organ, based on a professional assessment.
II – activities foreseen by Complementing Law 97 from June 9, 1999 related to the preparation and deployment of the Armed Forces in compliance with their constitutional duties, carried out in a military area.
Art. 5 The competent environmental organ will, before granting a license for the intervention or suppression of the vegetation with a Permanent Preservation Area, establish the ecological measures, of mitigating or compensatory nature, foreseen in § 4 , of art. 4 , of Law 4.771, from 1965, which must be adopted by the requesting party.
§ 1 The ecologic mitigation and compensation measures foreseen in this article for enterprises and activities subjected to environmental licenses will be defined through the licensing process, without prejudice and, when applicable, to compliance with the provisions of art. 36 of Law 9.985 from July 18, 2000.
§ 1 In cases related to intervention or suppression of the vegetation of a Permanent Preservation Area caused by an activity related to the extraction of mineral substances which does not potentially cause significant environmental impacts, the competent organ may, through a well-motivated decision, substitute the demand for the presentation of the EIA/RIMA by the presentation of other environmental studies foreseen by current legislation.
II – execution assessment undertaken by professionals legally licensed to conduct mineral extraction and control the impact on the physical and biotic environment through the presentation of a Professional Responsibility Note (ART) or a Technical Function Note (AFT) which must remain active until the closing of the mineral research process and of the respective environmental recuperation process.
§ 3 The studies foreseen in this article must be presented during the initial stages of the licensing process independent of any other professional studies that may be requested by the environmental organ.
§ 4 The extraction of rocks to be directly used for building construction is conditioned to the provisions set by the territorial ordinance documentation on a scale defined by the competent environmental organ.
§ 5 If the documentation foreseen in § 4 does not exist or if existing ones do not include the extraction of rocks for direct building construction, the authorization for the intervention or suppression of the vegetation of a growing Permanent Preservation Area, the authorization cannot be granted for a period of 36 months after the publication of this Resolution.
§ 6 the deposition of sterile or rejected materials, effluent treatment systems that benefit mineral activity infrastructures, can only intervene in Permanent Preservation Areas in exceptional cases acknowledged by the licensing process undertaken by the competent environmental organ and according to the provisions of item I of art. 3 of this Resolution.
II – the existence of a legal financial contract between the entrepreneur and the proprietor or possessor, for the duration of the mineral activities.
§ 8 Apart from the ecological measures of mitigation or compensation character as foreseen by art. 5 of this Resolution, the title holders for the research and extraction activities in a Permanent Preservation Area are also required to undertake the recuperation of the degraded environment according to the provisions set by § 2 of art. 225 of the Constitution and current legislation which considers compliance with the Plan for the Recuperation of Degraded Areas (PRAD) as an obligation of relevant environmental interest.
g) protection of the margins of water bodies.
III – waterproofing and alteration percentages for gardening are limited to 5% and 15% respectively of the total area of the Permanent Preservation Area inserted into the green public domain area.
§ 1 For the purpose of this Resolution, it is considered a green public domain area the public space for ecological, landscaping and leisure purposes which improves the esthetic, functional and environmental quality of cities and containing vegetation and free waterproofing spaces.
h) ramps for the launching of boats and small boat piers.
§ 3 The provision contained in the heading of this article do not apply to areas with primary or secondary native vegetation at medium and advanced regeneration stages.
§ 4 The population is guaranteed free and no-cost entrance to all green public domain areas.
§ 1 In certain exceptional cases the competent organ may, through a well-motivated decision, reduce the restrictions provisioned by line “a” of item IV of this article in light of the particular characteristics of the occupation and in accordance with standards defined by the competent environmental council which will set specific criteria while respecting the objective of environmental improvement that is the basis of the Sustainable Land Regularization Plan.
§ 2 The regularization of occupations banned in areas identified by the Sustainable Land Regularization Plan as locations that run the risk of being flooded, subjected to mudslides , movements of the rock mass and other possible defined risks.
§ 3 The areas that are the subject of the Sustainable Land Regularization Plan must be foreseen by municipal legislation that addresses the use and occupation of land as Special Social Interest Zones, specifically identifies as areas for popular habitation, according to the provisions of Law 10.257 from 2001.
§ 4 The Sustainable Land Regularization Plan must safeguard the implementation of democratic management tools and other tools for environmental control and monitoring.
§ 5 The Sustainable Land Regularization Plan must safeguard the non-occupation of original untouched Permanent Preservation Areas.
Art. 10. Competent environmental organs can authorize interventions or suppressions of the vegetation of any ecosystem within a Permanent Preservation Area.
XI – other similar actions or activities, of event character and defines as having a low environmental impact by the state environmental council.
§ 3 The competent environmental organ may demand proof from the requesting party , if deemed necessary, that professional studies show that there is no technical or locational alternative to the proposed intervention or suppression.
Art. 12. In cases conditioned to the presentation of EIA/RIMA the entrepreneur must present, until March 31 of each year, a detailed annual report that includes the geographic reference delimitations of Permanent Preservation areas signed by the head administrator and prove compliance with the obligations established for each issued license or authorization.
Art. 13. Unused authorizations for interventions or suppressions of the vegetation of a Permanent Preservation Area must be regularized by the competent environmental organ, according to the terms of this Resolution.
Art. 14. Breaches related to the provisions of this Resolution will import, among other, penalties and sanctions, respectively, foreseen by Law 9.605 from Feb. 12, 1998 and Decree 3.179 from September 21, 1999.
Art. 15. Organs that issue licenses must register these in the National Environment Information System (SINIMA) including licenses issued for construction, plans and activities of public convenience or social interest.
§ 1 o CONAMA will create, within the first year of enforcement of this Resolution, a Working Group within the Technical Chamber for Territorial and Biome Management in order to monitor and analyze the effects of this Resolution.
§ 2 The report by the Working Group that is the subject or the previous paragraph will include the Environmental Quality Report that is the subject of items VII, X and XI of Law 6.938 from 1981.
Art. 16. The demands and obligations foreseen by this Resolution represent obligations of relevant environmental interest.
Art. 17. CONAMA must create a Working Group that will, within one year, present a proposal for the regulation of the methodology for the recuperation of Permanent Preservation Areas.
Art. 18. This resolution shall enter into effect on the date of its publication.
This text does not substitute the text published in the Official Gazette on March 29, 2006.

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