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Administrative act by which the competent environmental agency establishes the conditions, restrictions and environmental control measures that must be obeyed by the entrepreneur, individual or legal entity, to locate, install, expand and operate enterprises or activities that use environmental resources considered as effective or potentially polluting or those that, in any way, can cause environmental degradation. The entrepreneur must complete all stages of the licensing, from the design phase to the installation and operation and, according to the size of the project, prepare a complex environmental impact study, known as EIA / RIMA in Brazil. (Free translation from the original: Brasil. Conselho Nacional de Recursos Hídricos - CNRH, 2006; Consórcio PCJ, 2005) |