Fonte: ANEEL

The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL) board approved today (4/5) the Declaration of Public Utility (DUP) for 3.5 thousand hectares of private lands located in Vitória do Xingu, in Pará, where the Belo Monte and Pimental job sites will be installed for the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant. The plant will have 11,233.1 Megawatts (MW) of total installed capacity, 11 thousand MW at the Belo Monte site and 233.1 MW at Pimental.

The lands were requested by the Norte Energia S/A consortium of companies, the utility awarded exploitation of the enterprise, as per a concession contract signed on August 26, 2010 after the auction held in April of that same year.

The expropriated area will set aside for installing two provisional job sites, access roads, living quarters, water and sewage treatment stations and other actions needed for enterprise construction.

General procedures for the public utility declaration requirement for purposes of expropriation and the institution of administrative servitude of land areas needed for the installation of electric energy generation, transmission and distribution sites by concessionaires, permissionaires and authorized utilities are at Resolution ANEEL nº. 279/2007.

The consortium presented the necessary documentation for the request and ANEEL analyzed the cartographic information sent, with issuance of a technical report showing agreement of those values for requested areas and for the vertexes and spatial references informed by the company. Other documents presented include the previous license and the installation of job sites granted by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Resources (IBAMA), as well as a resolution issued by the National Water Agency (ANA) which grants Construtora Andrade Gutierrez S/A, one of the companies that comprises the Norte Energia consortium, the right to use water resources on the Xingu River.

Indemnification value will be negotiated between the between the business and the land owners. When there is no agreement, the DUP grants the companies that own the concession the right to expropriate the corresponding land areas based on criteria adopted by the Brazilian Association of Technical Norms (ABNT).   (GL/FA)