Provisions for Preparing the Technical Study for Forest Protection and Water Resource Projects.
The undersigned ____________, professional license No. ______, in my capacity as forest regent, covered by the Forestry Law, its regulations, its modifications, and the current legislation. I proceed to issue the following technical study:
1. Include the name of beneficiaries, ID numbers, real estate folio(s), plan number(s), total area(s) of the folio(s), current land use, 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 allowed to change between 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 wilderness area, stating its name.
4. The forest regent must certify that the area to be submitted for PSA meets the definition of forest according to Forestry Law No. 7575.
5. For forest protection projects, protection areas should not be detailed, because they form part of the area subject to PSA. Only the forest regent must quantify and deduct from the effective area the areas occupied by primary roads and logging yards, openings, water bodies, palm swamps (yolillales), wetlands (suampos), infrastructure, and other uses.
6. Must indicate the existence or not of other valid PSA contracts on the same farm, indicating the area, location, and capacity 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 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 PSA contract. Except for ecological easements.
9. Must include a sketch of the property with the location of the land to be submitted for PSA, the PSA area, and the corresponding vertex numbering. The system used and its accuracy must be indicated. The sketch of the PSA effective area, as well as the sketch of the entire plan, must be submitted in print and digital format. In case the area to be submitted for PSA corresponds to the total area of the farm, the submission of the certified cadastral plan will suffice.
10. The scales to be used for areas smaller than thirty hectares must be 1:5,000 to 1:10,000. For larger areas, they can be used at professional convenience.
11. Only plans whose displacement in the cartographic location does not exceed 500 meters, with respect to what is indicated in the plan and the real location of the farm, will be accepted. In cases exceeding 500 meters, a certification issued by a licensed surveyor must be attached that indicates the correct location of the plan.
12. Must provide the digital files with the following conditions:
12.1. File of the farm perimeter.
a. The polygon shapefile of the perimeter of the farm or farms that are applying to the PSA program must be provided. It must be a single file that 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 lower case, NO accents, blank spaces, or other strange characters are accepted in the column titles.
b. The shapefile must be named with the application number assigned by the Regional Office, including the letter "c" at the end of the name (e.g., CA01-0001- 19c).
c. The shapefile must be delivered on any electronic medium as long as the submission date can be corroborated and corresponds to the date of submission of the technical study.
12.2. File of the PSA area.
a. The file must be in polygon shapefile format (containing at a minimum the extensions shp, shx, prj, dbf), other formats will not be accepted.
b. The Shapefile must be named with the application number assigned by the Regional Office (e.g., CA01-0001-19).
c. A single polygon Shapefile must be submitted 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 only the numbers indicated by the Land Use Catalog (Catálogo de Uso) must be filled in; column C, with the name "hectareas" numeric type, with the data quantifying 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 lower case, NO accents, blank spaces, or other strange characters are accepted in the column titles.
In column C (hectareas), the sum of the areas must be equal to 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 Shapefiles, the numbering to be used according to the Land Use Catalog (Catálogo de Uso) to be implemented is indicated below:
| USO | Descripción |
|---|
| 1 | Superficie de PSA |
| 2 | Superficie del Resto Finca |
| 3 | Superficie de Caminos |
| 4 | Superficie de Cursos de Agua |
| 5 | Superficie de otros (aquellas coberturas que no están considerados en los puntos 2-3 y 4) |
e. The shapefile must be submitted geo-referenced in the CRTM05 coordinate system (made official by Decree No. 33797-MJ-MOPT, published in La Gaceta No. 108 of Wednesday, June 6, 2007).
f. The shapefile must be delivered on a compact disc, or any other electronic medium, as long as the submission date can be corroborated and corresponds to the date of submission of the technical study.
12.3. In both cases, the polygons must be delivered without topological errors (open polygons, gaps between the polygon edges, slivers, or overlapping polygon edges). If any error is found, it will be notified 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', 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, the PSA areas are excluded from the leased areas, this in the event that it is the owner of the property who requests entry into the PSA. Otherwise, certify that the leases effectively correspond to PSA 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 license number, stamp, and signature of the responsible professional, the date of preparation.
17. The corrected technical study will be submitted only once, including the content of the entire technical study, not just the requested correction.
18. Must indicate the number of signs to install, at least 1 per 50 ha; which must contain the following information: name of the beneficiary, sub-activity, PSA area submitted, and forestry contract number.
19. Indicate the state of the property boundaries and the fire prevention activities carried out.
20. Must provide a description of the biodiversity elements present in the area to be submitted, that justify why the proposed area should be considered for entry into the PSA Program (geo-referenced photographic records may be provided).