Waterway Panorama - Antaq

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Solid waste
Solid waste is also entering a new phase with
the review of the RDC 217 of the National
Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA). The
promulgation of the RDC 056/08 brought a new
concept of good environmental practices for
waste. As in other legislation texts (the same subject
is treated as a Plan of Waste, such as Law
9,966/00), the correct understanding of this provision
is necessary.
Good environmental practices for collection
and disposal of waste should be achieved by organized
ports and other facilities, regardless of
formal plans. The question still faces regulations
with different determinations established by AN-
VISA and the International System of Agricultural
Surveillance (VIGIAGRO).
It is important that the proper treatment be
given to facilitate destination, which should happen
after autoclaving in the primary zone, as required
by the VIGIAGRO. The use of autoclaves
meets the elimination or exclusion of incinerated
waste in port areas, for the high environmental
impact they cause.
Licensing process
It is a process of great relevance to port activities
and, therefore, should be built within
an understanding of environmental logic. To
this end, it is essential review prior licensing
and its environmental impact assessments.
By design, prior licensing for undertakings is
a license of decision, that is, the environmental
possibility to implement the undertaking, where
it is designed, is taken into consideration. Environmental
impact assessments should meet
the demand for the assessment alone, as it is
relevant to the decision-making process. In the
current licensing practice, this does not happen
that way. The environmental impact assessment,
EIA is nearly always, unnecessarily, a
prospective study of possible impacts. Therefore,
it has impacts of little relevance, liable to
well-known, technically manageable processes
of minimization.
These normal impacts, which may be adequately
minimized, should not be part of this
assessment. They should rather be part of the
executive project for installation licensing, providing
time to the environmental licensing
agency. This is an unnecessary social burden
that may be easily resolved.
A major flaw of our clearance process is
that environmental impact assessments, even in
its current form, should generate management
indicators of the environments to which they relate,
for the undertaking they enable. Being so
complex and extensive, they never reach their
goal and generate more confusion than knowledge
about the impacting forces they are supposed
to map.
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