the technical study for forest management projects The undersigned ____________, Professional License No. ______, In my capacity as Forestry Regent, with fidelity bond No. ______, protected by the Forestry Law, its regulations, its amendments, forestry regency regulations, and current legislation. I certify the content of the following Technical Study:
1. Name of beneficiaries, ID numbers, Folio(s) Real(es), plan number(s), total folio area(s), current use, administrative location, the exact address of the farm(s), and the adjacent landowners found in the field.
2. Regency form number, date of visit.
3. Indicate if the area is located in a protected wilderness area, stating its name.
4. Indicate the modality and the Pre-application number previously assigned by the respective Regional Office.
5. The property plan must be georeferenced with at least three points located by GPS with the WGS 84 datum and in decimal degrees format (GG.dddd). At least two of these points must be vertices of the plan. All GPS points must be at a distance of no less than 50 meters from each other. (the locations of the points must be indicated on the sketch, and they must be provided digitally using a point shape file, in the same coordinate system as the sketch, indicating the reference of each point). The information on the GPS points must be included.
6. Likewise, each Technical Study must contain the sketch of the area to be submitted to PSA with respect to the total area of the property, indicating the boundary survey (derrotero) and the corresponding vertex numbering. The system used and its accuracy must be indicated; also, the starting point (point 1) of the area to be submitted must be tied to a point with known coordinates. The sketch of the effective PSA area, as well as the sketch of the entirety of the plan, must be submitted printed and in digital form.
The digital form must comply with:
- The file must be in Arcview Shape File format (polygon), other formats will not be admitted.
- The Shape file must be named with the application number assigned by the Regional Office (e.g., SJ01000108).
- A single Shape file must be presented that includes in the attribute table the quantification of the area, use (PSA area, rest of the farm), and the surveyed plan number when applicable.
- In case of existing current contracts, include their location.
- The file must be presented georeferenced in the CRTM05 coordinate system (made official through Decree No. 33797-MJ-MOPT published in La Gaceta No. 108 of Wednesday, June 6, 2007) or in a geographic coordinate system, WGS84 datum, and in decimal degrees format (GG.dddd).
- It must be submitted on a compact disc (cd).
7. The scales to be used for areas smaller than thirty hectares must be 1:5,000 to 1:10,000. For larger areas, they may be used at professional convenience.
8. Furthermore, the Study must be prepared based on the legal area of the land, that is, the 'agricultural surface' (superficie agraria), this being defined as the area of a portion of land determined by the horizontal projection of its perimeter.
9. Express statement of the existence of other current PSA contracts, indicating the area, location, and certifying the capacity (cabida) of the contracts.
10. On properties with leases (arrendamientos), it must be certified that the PSA areas are excluded from the leased areas, this in case it is the property owner who requests entry to the PSA. Otherwise, certify that the leases effectively correspond to PSA areas requested by the lessees.
11. Only Certified Technical Studies shall be admitted that refer to plans whose displacements in the cartographic location do not exceed 500 meters, with respect to what is indicated on the plan and the real location of the farm. In cases where it exceeds 500 meters, a certification issued by a licensed surveyor must be attached, indicating the correct location of the plan.
12. In all cases, Certified Technical Studies must be prepared on security paper, contain the name, professional license number, and signature of the responsible professional, the date of preparation, and with the respective stamps.
Note: Installation of preventive signs. The sign must contain the following information: name of the beneficiary, modality, PSA area submitted, and forestry contract number.