Uma avaliação sistêmica de instrumentos legais e de políticas públicas em saneamento ambiental: proposições para o plano municipal de saneamento básico de Cruz das Almas - Bahia

Abstract

The environmental management in municipalities encompasses several sectors of government and demands a dialogue with civil society. The analysis of public policies adopted by local authorities is essential in this context in order to achieve an environmental policy which responds to limits of the municipality, the urban and rural areas, aiming at the local community and environment life’s quality. In this sense, the drafting of an environmental sanitation policy should be understood by political, social, economic and cultural factors. Environmental sanitation is characterized by an essential public services, his promotion is a duty of the state, set up as a service to local character and therefore municipal responsibility. It is the jurisdiction of the municipality to establish a Sanitation Plan, as prescribed by Federal Law Nº. 11,445, of January 5,2007. In Cruz das Almas municipality, Bahia, the cited Plan does not exist in the legal environment local, therefore this study aimed to present an interlacing between the laws that raise the discussion and elaboration of that instrument, they are the Complementary Law 012/08 – Master Plan for Urban Development of Cruz das Almas (2008), Complementary Law 005/01 – Municipal Code of the Environment in Cruz das Almas (2001) and State Plan for Water Resources of the State of Bahia (1994). This paper discusses legal issues and practices underlying the interrelationships of public sanitation, considering an integrated view of its components, which can give to the citizen and local society a position of protagonist in defining, designing and managing public policies for sanitation, with emphasis on the preparation of a Sanitation Municipal Plan. To this end, this work outlines actions that can help in setting up x sectoral diagnoses (water supply, sewage, solid waste and urban drainage), to give subsidy to this plan.