Análise da efetividade temporal de processos de licenciamento ambiental de atividades minerárias no estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The environmental licensing is a public management instrument that aims to regularize activities and enterprises with potential to cause pollution or environmental degradation. Taking its importance in consideration along with the many critics it receives from the stakeholder, this study aims to analyze the effectiveness of environmental licensing of mining activities in the state of Minas Gerais, regarding its time frame. The mining enterprises analyzed were chosen among those classified as mining activities according to the Regulatory Deliberation nº 74/2004 of the Environmental Policy State Council (COPAM) that met a list of prerequisites to make this study viable, for example with all documents available in digital format. After defining all selection criteria to choose the processes to be studied, the data were collected through a search at Environmental Information Integrated System (SIAM), and afterwards, the collected data were analyzed accordingly with the time spent in each stage. Among the environmental processes studied, it is noticed that the longer time spent to complete the issuance of the environmental licensing is at the stage of collecting/creation the documents and studies necessaries for the license’s issuances, which is the entrepreneur’s responsibility. Furthermore, the implementation of systems and procedures that allows more agility at the environmental licenses process elaboration and technical analysis is essential so there are increasingly regularized environmental licenses in a shorter time frame.