Provisions for Preparing the Technical Study for Forest and Water Resource Protection Projects.
The undersigned ____________, professional registration number ______, in my capacity as forest regent, under the protection of the Forestry Law, its regulations, amendments, and current legislation. I proceed to issue the following technical study:
1. Include the name of the beneficiaries, ID numbers, real folio(s), plan number(s), total area(s) of the folio(s), current land use (uso actual), administrative location, and the exact address of the farm(s).
2. Must indicate the sub-activity and the application number previously assigned by the respective Regional Office. It is not possible to change between the sub-activities proposed in the technical study and the type of resource found in the field; unless the Regional Office is previously notified, so that the required adjustments, or the required contract modification, can be made.
3. Must indicate whether or not the area is within a protected wild area (área silvestre protegida), indicating its name.
4. The forest regent must certify that the area to be submitted to PES meets the definition of forest according to Forestry Law No. 7575.
5. For forest protection projects, protection areas must not be detailed, because these form part of the area subject to the PES. Only, the forest regent must quantify and deduct from the effective area the areas occupied by primary roads and log yards, openings (abras), bodies of water, yolillales, swamps (suampos), infrastructure, and other uses.
6. Must indicate the existence or not of other current PES contracts on the same farm, indicating the area, location, and capacity (cabida) of the contracts and include their location, both in the digital file and in the technical study.
7. Must indicate whether the area to be submitted in the indigenous territories corresponds or not to communal territories; or failing that, present the name, ID number, and area for each project participant.
8. The areas of properties affected by electrical or right-of-way easements (servidumbres) must be excluded from the surfaces subject to a PES contract. With the exception of ecological easements (servidumbres ecológicas).
9. Must include a sketch of the property with the location of the land to be submitted to PES, the PES area, and the corresponding vertex numbering. The system used and its accuracy must be indicated. The sketch of the effective PES area, as well as the sketch of the entire plan, must be delivered printed and digitally. In the event that the area to be submitted to PES corresponds to the entire area of the farm, the presentation of the certified cadastral plan will suffice.
10. The scales to be used for areas under thirty hectares must be 1:5,000 to 1:10,000. For larger areas, they may be used at professional convenience.
11. Only 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, will be accepted. In cases exceeding 500 meters, a certification issued by a licensed surveyor (topógrafo colegiado) indicating the correct location of the plan must be attached.
12. Must provide the digital files under the following conditions:
12.1. Farm perimeter file.
a. The shape polygon file of the perimeter of the farm or farms that are applying to the PES program must be provided. It must be a single file, which includes in the attribute table (dbf), column A, with the name "plano" text type, where the plan number indicated in the application is included; column B with the name "hectareas" real type, where the total area of the plan per farm or farms is included. The format to follow is:
*The column names are in lowercase, accents, blank spaces, or other strange characters are NOT accepted in the column titles.
b. The shape file must be named with the application number assigned by the Regional Office, including the letter "c" at the end of the name (example, CA01-0001-19c).
c. The shape file must be delivered in any electronic medium as long as the delivery date can be corroborated, and it corresponds to the delivery date of the technical study.
12.2. PES area file.
a. The file must be in polygon shape file format (containing at minimum the extensions shp, shx, prj, dbf), no other formats will be accepted.
b. The Shape file must be named with the application number assigned by the Regional Office (example, CA01-0001-19).
c. A single polygon Shape file must be presented that includes in the attribute table (dbf), column A, with the name "plano" text type where the plan number included in the application is entered; column B with the name "uso" numeric type, where it should only be filled with the numbers indicated by the Land Use Catalogue (Catálogo de Uso); column C with the name "hectareas" numeric type with the quantification data of the area in hectares according to the use of the farm; and Column D with the name "detalle" text type where a brief description is included. The format to follow is:
| A | B | C | D |
|---|
| plano | uso | hectáreas | detalle |
*The names are in lowercase, accents, blank spaces, or other strange characters are NOT accepted in the column titles.
**In column C (hectáreas) the sum of the areas must equal the total area of the farm.
A tolerance range of plus/minus 1 hectare will be allowed.
d. To standardize the type of information required in the polygon Shape files, the numbering to be used according to the Land Use Catalogue to be implemented is indicated below:
| USO | Descripción |
|---|
| 1 | PES Surface |
| 2 | Rest of Farm Surface |
| 3 | Roads Surface |
| 4 | Watercourses Surface |
| 5 | Other Surface (those coverages not considered in points 2-3 and 4) |
e. The shape file must be presented geo-referenced in the CRTM05 coordinate system (made official through Decree No. 33797-MJ-MOPT, published in La Gaceta No. 108 of Wednesday, June 6, 2007).
f. The shape file must be delivered on a compact disc, or any other electronic medium as long as the delivery date can be corroborated, and it corresponds to the delivery date of the technical study.
12.3. In both cases, the polygons must be delivered without topological errors (open polygons, gaps between polygon edges, showing splinters or superimposed polygon edges). If any error is found, notification will be given for its proper correction; if it persists, the application will be archived.
13. Prepare the technical study based on the legal area of the land, that is, the 'agricultural surface' (superficie agraria), defined as the area of a portion of land determined by the horizontal projection of its perimeter.
14. Must indicate, in the case of leases, that the PES areas are excluded from the leased areas, in the event that it is the property owner who requests entry to the PES. Otherwise, certify that the leases effectively correspond to PES areas requested by the tenants.
15. In the case of farms in possession or contracts for the year elapsed, the forest regent must indicate that the forest was protected in the last 12 months.
16. The technical study must contain the name of the professional, professional registration number, seal, and signature of the responsible professional, and the date of preparation.
17. The corrected technical study will be delivered only once, including the content of the entire technical study, not just the requested correction.
18. Must indicate the number of signs to be installed, at least 1 per 50 ha; which must contain the following information: name of the beneficiary, sub-activity, PES area submitted, and forest contract number.
19. Indicate the state of the boundaries (linderos) and the fire prevention activities carried out.
20. Must provide a description of the biodiversity elements present in the area to be submitted, justifying why the proposed area should be considered for entry into the PES Program (geo-referenced photographic records may be provided).