Environmental permitting and permit-condition management
Strategy, studies and technical leadership of the process: from choosing the regulatory route to delivering what the permit requires.
- On record
- 144 ARTs · 60 clients · 7 Brazilian states
- Studies
- RCA/PCA · RAS · studies for EIA/RIMA · PBA
- After the permit
- Permit conditions · renewal · technical defense
ARTs (technical responsibility records) filed with CREA-MG in the name of the responsible engineer, 2009–2026.
The problem
Permitting rarely stalls on the study. It stalls on the regulatory route, the reply to the agency and the condition nobody owns.
The wrong regulatory route leads to the wrong study. A half-answered information request sends the process back to the end of the line. A permit condition with no owner and no evidence comes back at renewal, as a new requirement or as a notice of violation.
H·MARIZ runs permitting as a sequence of decisions: which regulatory route applies, which studies it requires, who produces them, what the agency will ask and how each obligation will be met and evidenced.
Who it is for
- Projects being developed, expanded or brought into compliance
- Operations with a permit to renew or conditions behind schedule
- Projects with an open agency requirement, opinion or notice of violation
- Investors who need to know what is still missing to permit an asset
From complexity to plan
The process, structured.
The same project, before and after it is organized: workstreams, dependencies and the points where someone has to decide.
- TerritoryProject area
- TerritoryConstraints and interfacesDecision: Adjust the design or proceed?
- Environmental agencyClassification and permitting trackDecision: Which permitting track?
- Environmental agencyTerms of reference
- StudiesEnvironmental studies
- StudiesVegetation clearing and offsets
- Environmental agencyReview and information requestsDecision: How to answer the requests?
- ObligationsLicense conditions
- ObligationsOwners and deadlines
Conceptual modelConceptual model. The actual sequence depends on the type, size and location of the project and on the competent agency; no step here stands for a license granted.
Evidence
What has been delivered under technical responsibility.
Types of product with an ART on record, by the sector where they were applied. No client names: the list shows what was done, not for whom.
| Technical product | Where it was applied |
|---|---|
| Environmental control report and plan (RCA/PCA) | Mining, distribution, waste treatment, rail terminal, land subdivision |
| Simplified environmental report (RAS) | Mining, road paving, residential development |
| Studies for environmental impact assessment (EIA/RIMA) | Water resources: baseline, impacts and water-quality program |
| Basic environmental plan (PBA) | Railway expansion |
| Responses to agency information requests | Railway, mining, steelmaking |
| PCA management and monitoring of permit conditions | Industry, water-use grants, forestry |
| Vegetation clearing and offsets (forest inventory, PUP, PTRF) | Energy, mining, steelmaking, construction |
| Degraded-area recovery plans (PRAD, PRADA) and monitoring | Real estate development, forestry |
| Mine closure plans | Nine plans, in two states |
| Technical support for the defense of a notice of violation | Mining |
Records filed with CREA-MG in the name of the responsible engineer, before H·MARIZ was founded.
By H·MARIZ, in 2026
- Compliance report for a condition set in a municipal planning opinion, covering oversight of rain-garden maintenance and a functional infiltration test
- Black-smoke monitoring of a diesel fleet (Ringelmann scale) in response to a municipal environmental agency requirement, with an action plan
- Solid waste management plans (PGRS)
Permit-conditions matrix
The structure we use to take a condition out of the permit PDF and put it into the routine. Both rows are sample entries, with no client data.
| Condition | Source | Deadline or frequency | Owner | Evidence of compliance | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submit the annual effluent self-monitoring report | Operating permit, item 3 | Yearly, by March 31 | Operations · contracted laboratory | Filed report and laboratory results | On schedule |
| Carry out the riparian strip restoration project | Technical opinion, item 7 | 180 days from issue | Environment team · contractor | Photographic report and execution ART | In progress |
Scope and deliverables
From regulatory screening to the last permit condition.
The whole process, or only the stage that is stuck. Every service ends in a deliverable.
Permitting strategy
Classification, competent agency, permitting track and sequence of permits.
Deliverable
Strategy note: regulatory route, required studies, risks and schedule.
Studies and multidisciplinary coordination
RCA/PCA, RAS, studies for EIA/RIMA and control plans, with specialists under a single technical lead.
Deliverable
Studies ready to file, with technical responsibility on record.
Regulatory risk analysis
Constraints, activities requiring authorization, offsets and points of institutional conflict, before filing.
Deliverable
Regulatory risk matrix: what blocks the project and what can be managed.
Agency information requests
A close reading of what the agency asked and a technical reply that answers it, on time.
Deliverable
A reply ready to file, traceable item by item.
Permit-condition management
Every condition with an owner, a deadline, a routine and evidence.
Deliverable
Permit-conditions matrix and compliance reports.
Regulatory engagement
Technical dialogue with the environmental agency and with intervening bodies throughout the review.
Deliverable
Record of meetings, official letters and follow-ups.
Process monitoring
Filings, deadlines and case movements followed through to the decision; the technical basis for the defense when a violation is issued.
Deliverable
Process status report.
How the work is organized
How we run a permitting process.
01
Understand
The project, the site and the history of the process: what has been filed, requested and promised.
02
Structure
The regulatory route and the studies it requires, with assumptions and exclusions in writing.
03
Deliver
Studies, filing, replies and technical dialogue with the agency during the review.
04
Manage
Conditions and deadlines under control, with evidence ready for renewal.
Proven experience
From the first study to the technical defense.
- ART · engineer of record
Technical responsibility on record since 2009: 144 ARTs, for 60 clients, in seven Brazilian states.
- Executive experience
Environmental permitting and regulatory strategy for large-scale linear infrastructure.
- H·MARIZ · 2026
Reports on compliance with permit conditions and on municipal agency requirements, delivered in 2026.
Experience from 2009 to 2023 belongs to the responsible engineer and is recorded in ARTs (technical responsibility records) filed with CREA-MG; the 2026 work was contracted by H·MARIZ. Clients are not named. The list of ARTs is available on request.
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Contact
Is there a permit to obtain, renew or defend?
The first conversation is with the person who will lead the work.
Henrique Marizhenrique@hmariz.comWhatsApp (31) 99791-8003Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais