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VI. The management of water resources should be decentralized and should involve participation by the Government, the users, and the communities.
III. To prevent and protect against water crises due to either natural causes or the inappropriate use of natural resources.
VI. The integration of river basin management with that of estuary systems and coastal zones.
Art. 4. The Federal Union shall coordinate with the States on the management of water resources of common interest.
VI. The Water Resources Information System.
Art. 6. The Water Resources Plans are master plans that undertake to provide bases for and orient the implementation of the National Water Resources Policy and water resources management.
X. Proposals for the creation of areas subject to restrictions on water use, with a view to protecting water resources.
Art. 8. Water Use Plans shall be developed by river basin, by State, and for the country as a whole.
II. To reduce the cost of combating water pollution through constant preventive actions.
Art. 10. The classes of bodies of water shall be established by environmental legislation.
Art. 11. The objectives of the water-rights guidelines are to ensure the quantitative and qualitative control of water use and the effective exercise of rights of access to water.
I. The diversion or impoundment of water from a body of water for final consumption, including public water supply or use in a production process.
II. The extraction of water from subterranean aquifers for final consumption or for use in a production process.
III. The discharge of treated or untreated sewage and other liquid or gaseous waste into a body of water with a view to diluting, transporting, or disposing of it.
IV. The utilization of hydroelectric potential.
V. Other uses that affect the flow, quantity, or quality of water existing in a body of water.
III. Impoundments of volumes of water that are considered insignificant.
§2. The award and utilization of water resources for the generation of electric power shall be provided for the National Water Resources Plan, as approved in the manner set forth in paragraph VIII, Art. 35, of the present Law, subject to compliance with the legislation of the specific sector.
Art. 13. All awards shall be subject to the priorities for land use established in the Water Resources Plans and shall respect the class to which the body of water has been assigned and, when applicable, the maintenance of conditions suitable for transport via aqueduct.
Sole Paragraph. The award of rights to water shall maintain its multiple use.
Art. 14. The award shall be made by the responsible authority of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, of the States, or of the Federal District.
§1. The Federal Executive Branch may delegate to the States and to the Federal District the authority to award rights to the use of water resources that are their property of the Union.
VI. A need to preserve the navigability of the body of water.
Art. 16. No award for water use shall be made for a period exceeding thirty-five years, which may be renewed.
Art. 18. The award in no way implies partial alienation of the water itself, which is inalienable; it merely awards the right to use it.
III. To raise revenue for financing the programs and interventions provided for in the Water Resources Plans.
Art. 20. Fees shall be charged for the use of water resources subject to award under the terms of Art. 12 of the present Law.
II. In the discharge of effluents and other liquid or gaseous waste, the volume discharged, the variation in its flow, and the physical-chemical and biological characteristics and toxicity of the effluent.
II. Defraying implementation costs and administrative overhead for agencies and entities of the National Water Resources Management System.
§1. The payment of the costs referred to in paragraph II of the present article shall be limited to seven and one-half percent (7.5%) of the total amount collected.
§2. The funds mentioned at the beginning of this article may be applied without limitation to projects and public works that alter, in a manner considered to be of benefit to the community, the quality, quantity, and flow rate of a body of water.
Art. 25. The Water Resources Information System is a system for the collection, processing, storage, and retrieval of information on water resources and the factors involved in their management.
Sole Paragraph. The data generated by the agencies in the National Water Resources Management System shall be included in the National Water Resources Information System.
III. Guaranteed access to the data and information for the whole society.
III. To provide subsidies for the preparation of the Water Resources Plans.
IV. To promote the integration of water-resources management with environmental management.
Sole Paragraph. The Federal Executive Branch shall designate by decree the agency responsible for the award of rights to the use of water resources that are the property of the Union.
Art. 31. In implementing the National Water Resources Policy, the Executive Branches of the Federal District and the municipalities shall promote the integration of the local policies on basic sanitation, land use and occupancy, soil conservation, and environmental protection with the Federal and State policies on water resources.
V. To encourage the charging of fees for use of water resources.
IV. Representatives of civil organizations concerned with water resources.
Sole Paragraph. The number of representatives of the Federal Executive Branch may not be more than half plus one of the total number of members of the National Council on Water Resources.
X. To establish broad criteria for the award of rights to water use and for the fees to be charged.
II. An Executive Secretary, who shall be the head of the organ within the Ministry of Environment, Water Resources, and Legal Amazonia that is responsible for the management of water resources.
III. A group of contiguous river basins or sub-basins.
Sole Paragraph. The establishment of River Basin Committees for rivers that are the property of the Union shall be by act of the President of the Republic.
IX. To establish criteria for and promote the apportionment of the cost of multiple-use projects of common or collective interest.
Sole Paragraph. Decisions of the River Basin Committees may be appealed to the State or National Councils on Water Resources, depending on their respective sphere of competence.
V. Civil water-resources agencies that have a demonstrated record of action in the basin.
§1. The number of representatives from each sector mentioned above, and the criteria for their appointment, shall be determined in the regulations of the committees; the representation of the executive powers of the Federal Government, the States, the Federal District, and the Municipalities shall be limited to half the total number of members.
§2. In the case of River Basin Committees that share in the management of basins of rivers that run along and across borders, the representatives of the Union must include one from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
II. The indigenous communities living or having interests in the basin.
§4. The participation of the Union in River Basin Committees whose sphere of action is limited to river basins belonging to a State shall be governed by their respective regulations.
Art. 40. River Basin Committees will be directed by a Chairman and a Secretary, elected from among its members.
Art 41. The Water Agencies shall serve as the executive secretariats of the River Basin Committees.
Art. 42. The Water Agencies shall have the same area of action as one or more River Basin Committees.
Sole Paragraph. The creation of Water Agencies shall be authorized by either the National or the State Councils on Water Resources at the request of one or more River Basin Committees.
II. Financial viability ensured by fees for the use of water resources in its area of action.
d) The apportionment of costs of multiple-use projects of common or collective interest.
Art. 45. The body within the Ministry of Environment, Water Resources, and Legal Amazonia responsible for the management of water resources shall serve as the Executive Secretariat of the National Council on Water Resources.
V. To prepare a work program and the corresponding annual budget proposal and submit them to the National Council on Water Resources for its approval.
V. Other organizations recognized by the National or State Councils on Water Resources.
Art. 48. In order to participate in the National Water Resources System, a civil water-resources organization must be legally constituted.
VIII. Impeding or hampering the supervisory activities of the responsible authorities in the exercise of their duties.
IV. A permanent injunction, with revocation of the award if appropriate, to permit the restoration of the water resources, riverbed, and riverbanks to their previous condition, pursuant to Arts. 58 and 59 of the Water Code, or the capping of the wells being used to extract groundwater.
§1. If the violation results in any impairment of the public water-supply service, risk to health or life, loss of goods or animals, or other damage of any kind to third parties, the fine to be imposed shall not be less than one-half of the maximum value agreed upon in abstract.
§2. In the case of paragraphs III and IV, apart from the prescribed fine, the violator shall be charged for any costs incurred by the Administration to implement the measures stipulated in these paragraphs, pursuant to Arts. 36, 53, 56, and 58 of the Water Code, without prejudice to the payment of indemnity for any damage caused.
§3. The imposition of the penalties provided for under this title may be appealed to the competent administrative authority under the terms of the regulations.
§4. In the event that the violation is repeated, the fine shall be doubled.
Art. 52. Until the National Water Resources Plan has been approved and regulated, the utilization of hydraulic potential for purposes of electricity generation shall continue to be governed by the specific sectoral legislation.
Art 53. Within one hundred and twenty days from the publication of this Law, the Executive Power shall submit a draft law to the National Congress on the creation of the Water Agencies.
V – Two per cent to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
§4. The quota allocated to the Secretariat of Water Resources of the Ministry of Environment, Water Resources, and Legal Amazonia shall be used for implementing the National Water Resources Policy and the National Water Resource Management System and for managing the national hydrometeorological network.
Sole Paragraph. The new percentages established at the beginning of this article shall enter into effect one hundred and eighty days from the date on which this Law is published.
Art. 55. The Federal Executive Branch shall issue regulations for this Law within one hundred and eighty days from the date of its publication.
Art. 56. This Law enters into effect on the date of its publication.
Art. 57. Any provisions to the contrary are hereby revoked.
Brasilia, January 8, 1997, 176th year of Independence and 109th year of the Republic.

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