Decree No. 365 establishing the integrated environmental assessment licensing of the hydrographical basin for hydroelectric power plants. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision Santa Catarina Document type Regulation Date 2015 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Energy, Environment gen., Water Keyword Hydropower generation Environmental standards Energy conservation/energy production Authorization/permit Procedural matters Standards Protection of environment EIA Waterworks Basin/catchment/watershed Environmental planning Inland waters Policy/planning Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Decree, consisting of 10 articles and one Annex, establishes the integrated environmental assessment licensing of the hydro-graphical basin for hydroelectric power plants. This assessment will subsidize the issuance of a prior environmental license granted to the hydroelectric projects provided for in art. 1 of Law 14.652 of 13 January 2009, whose objective is to evaluate the environmental situation of the basin, the hydroelectric projects implemented and the potential buses, considering: their effects on natural resources and human populations; the current and potential uses of water resources in the current and future horizon of planning, with the conservation of biodiversity; and the natural tendency of socioeconomic development of the basin, observing the legislation and the international commitments assumed by the federal and state governments. The integrated basin assessment should inform all the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of the basin where the project will be installed, according to the State Environmental Foundation (FATMA). Full text Portuguese Website leisestaduais.com.br References - Legislation Implements Law No. 14.652 establishing the integrated environmental assessment licensing of the hydrographical basin for hydroelectric power plants. Legislation | Brazil | 2009 Keyword: Hydropower generation, Environmental standards, EIA, Energy conservation/energy production, Authorization/permit, Standards, Protection of environment Source: FAO, FAOLEX