DECREE OF February 10, 2004.

Declares of social interest, for agrarian reform purposes, rural real estate that mentions, and gives other arrangements.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignments that confer upon him the arts. 84, inciso IV, and 184 of the Constitution, and in the terms of the arts. 2º of Supplementary Law No. 76 of July 6, 1993, 18 and 20 of Law No. 4,504 of November 30, 1964 and 2º of Law No. 8,629 of February 25, 1993,

DECRETA:

Art. 1º Stay declared of social interest, for the purposes of agrarian reform, in the terms of the arts. 18, letters "a", "b", "c" and "d", and 20, inciso VI, of Law No. 4,504, of November 30, 1964, and 2º of Law No. 8,629 of February 25, 1993, the following rural real estate:

I-"Fazenda Santa Clara and Paraguaciúma", with recorded area of a thousand, three hundred and seven hectares and twenty airs, and measured area of a thousand, five hundred and twenty-nine hectares, eighty-three airs and twenty-three centiars, situated in the Municipality of Itaeté, object of Registration # R-2-12, fls. 6v, Book 2 and Registration No. 7,006, fls. 158v/159, Book 3-O, of the Estate Registration Office of the Andaraí Comarca, Bahia State (Process INCRA/SR-05/nº 54160.000352 /2003-11) ;

II-"Farm Pit of the Stone", with area of a thousand, three hundred and eighty and six hectares, situated in the Municipality of Canindé, object of Registration No. 211, fls. 225, Book 2-A, of the Real Estate Registration Office of the 3º Offer of the Canindé Comarch, State of Ceará (Process INCRA/SR-02/nº 54130.001610 /2003-25) ; and

III-"Paradise and Gameleira"-part, with area of five thousand, seishundred and ninety and two hectares, forty-nine ares and eighty-three centiars, situated in the Municipalities of Miguel Lion, Curralinho, Monsignor Gil, Agricolaland and St. Peter from Piauí, object of Register No R-1-669, fls. 35 a 37v, Book 2-D, of the Real Estate Registration of the 1º Oftice of the Comarch of Monsignor Gil, State of Piauí (Process INCRA/SR-24/nº 21680.000548 /95-06).

Art. 2º Delete from the effects of this Decree the semovents, machinery and agricultural implements as well as the existing benefits in the real estate referred to in art. 1º and belonging to those who will be beneficiaries with their destination.

Art. 3º The National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform-INCRA is authorized to promote the dispossession of rural real estate that it treats this Decree, in the manner provided for in the Supplementary Act No. 76 of July 6, 1993, and to maintain the areas of Legal reservation and permanent preservation provided for in Law No. 4,771 of September 15, 1965, preferably in single gleba, in order to reconcile the settlement with the preservation of the environment.

Art. 4º This Decree shall enter into force on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, February 10, 2004 ; 183º of Independence and 116º of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto-