DECREE OF July 28, 2004

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

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the exercise of the office of President of the Republic, using 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 the Supplemental Act 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 Ficam declared of social interest, for 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-"Farm Barreirinhas", with area of two thousand hectares, situated in the Municipality of Coroatá, object of the Registry in the R-1-3.615, fls. 185, Book 2-T, of the Estate Registration Office of the Comarch of Coroatá, State of the Maranhão (Case INCRA/SR-12/no 54230.004991 /2003-76);

II-"Fazenda Agaynara and Sembal", with area of a thousand, five hundred and seventy and five hectares, fifty seven airs and fifty centiars, situated in the Municipality of Alto Alegre do Maranhão, object of the Matriculation on the 6,073, fls. 47, Book 2-AI, of the Estate Registration Office of the Comarch of Coroatá, State of the Maranhão (Case INCRA/SR-12/no 54230.000987 /2003-39);

III-"Tijuco or Tijuca", with area of a thousand, eight hundred and twenty-two hectares, sixty-eight ares and sixty-seven centiars, situated in the Municipality of Alto Alegre do Maranhão, object of the Registry in the R-1-3.705, fls. 75, Book 2-U, of the Estate Registration Office of the Comarch of Coroatá, State of the Maranhão (Process INCRA/SR-12/nº 54230.000986 /2003-94).

Art. 2º Excludes from the effects of this Decree the soothing, the machines and agricultural implements, as well as the existing benfeons in the real estate referred to in art. 1º and belonging to those who will be benefited from their targeting.

Art. 3º The National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform-INCRA is allowed to promote the dispropriations of rural real estate from which treats this Decree, in the form provided for in the Supplementary Act No. 76 of July 6, 1993, and to keep the areas of Legal Reserve and permanent preservation provided for in Law No. 4,771 of September 15, 1965, preferentially in single gleba, so as to reconciling the settlement with the preservation of the environment.

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

Brasilia, July 28, 2004; 183º of Independence and 116º of the Republic.

JOSÉ ALENCAR GOMES DA SILVA

Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto