the technical study for forest management (manejo de bosque) projects The undersigned ____________, Professional License Nº ______, In my capacity as Forest Regent, with fidelity policy Nº ______, protected by the Forest Law, its regulations, its amendments, the regulation of forest regencies and current regulations. I certify the content of the following Technical Study:
1. Name of beneficiaries, identification numbers, real folio(s), plan number(s), total area(s) of folio(s), current use, administrative location, the exact address of the farm(s) and the adjoining landowners found in the field.
2. Regencia form number, date of visit.
3. Indicate if the area is located in a protected wild 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-degree 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 by means of a shape point 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 in relation to the total area of the property, indicating the boundary and the corresponding numbering of vertices. The system used and its accuracy must be indicated; in addition, 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 entire plan, must be delivered printed and in digital format.
The digital file must comply with:
- The file must be in Arcview Shape File format (polygon), no other formats will be accepted.
- The Shape file must be named with the application number assigned by the Regional Office (for example, 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 cadastral plan number when applicable.
- If there are current contracts, include their location.
- The file must be presented georeferenced in the CRTM05 coordinate system (officialized by Decree Nº 33797-MJ-MOPT published in La Gaceta Nº 108 on Wednesday, June 6, 2007) or in the geographic coordinate system, WGS84 datum and in decimal degrees format (GG.dddd).
- It must be delivered 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 discretion.
8. Moreover, the Study must be prepared based on the legal area of the land, that is, the 'agricultural area', 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 area of the contracts.
10. On properties with leases, it must be certified that the PSA areas are excluded from the leased areas, in the event that the property owner is requesting entry into the PSA. Otherwise, certify that the leases effectively correspond to PSA areas requested by the tenants.
11. Only Certified Technical Studies will be admitted that refer to plans whose displacements in cartographic location do not exceed 500 meters, with respect to what is indicated on the plan and the actual location of the farm. In cases exceeding 500 meters, a certification issued by a licensed surveyor indicating the correct location of the plan must be attached.
12. In all cases, the 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 forest contract number.