Engineering expertise in environmental licensing processes

The growing demand for environmental licensing processes in special municipalities, as a result of the process of decentralization of intensified competences in recent years, generates a series of environmental requirements that, in these cases, do not observe some technical or legal aspects of great importance, including all these licenses subject to administrative and / or judicial penalties and nullities. In this context, the present work intends to fill an existing gap, incorporating a detailed look at the municipal, state, and federal laws that guide as legal bases for the environmental licensing process in Brazil. Thus, the objective article performs a literature review about engineering expertise in the sphere of these processes. As a result of the research, a new conceptual model of procedural analysis is proposed, highlighting the importance of an analyst who manages the process. Thus, it is concluded that there is great importance in the study of theoretical knowledge related to a technical technician, which concurrently with an observation of the mandatory methodological references in the expert reports, allows a correct foundation of an environmental licensing process.