Octo for licensing and dredging

A license comes with conditions. Octo helps prove each one on time.

Law 9.966/2000 requires ports to have the means to receive and treat waste, an individual emergency plan and an independent biennial environmental audit. Complementary Law 140/2011 says each project is licensed by a single level of government, and Law 15.190/2025 is the General Environmental Licensing Law. For dredging, the reference rule is CONAMA Resolution 454/2012, on the material to be dredged and its disposal. Octo can help your team keep licenses, conditions and campaigns organized, with the evidence for each one.

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Auditbiennialindependent, Law 9.966/2000

License1 levelof government per project

Dredging2 levelsof reference for the material

Sources6listed at the end of the page

What Octo does in licensing.

Four possible deliverables. The study, the technical report and the licensing decision remain with the technical team and the environmental agency.

Single license folder

Can gather the licenses for each facility with their conditions, deadlines and the agency that issued them.

Deliverable: index of licenses and conditions

Condition and evidence

Can link each condition to the report that proves it and point out what has no evidence.

Deliverable: table of condition, evidence and status

Deadline reminders

Can alert the team before licenses, monitoring reports and the biennial audit come due.

Deliverable: deadline calendar with alerts

Dredging campaigns

Can organize, per campaign, the volume dredged, the sampling plan, the classification of the material by level, the disposal area, monitoring and the campaign report. This supports the professional of record: it does not replace the technical report.

Deliverable: record and report per campaign for the professional of record

Eight arms, one license folder.

The same Octo cycle, applied to this topic. Each arm has a narrow role; the people who approve and sign are on your team.

Discovery
Lists the licenses

Which licenses the facility has, who issued them, which conditions and which deadlines.
Data
Links condition and evidence

Each condition with the report that proves it. Without that link, the deadline only shows up when it expires.
Security
Respects the document

Studies, technical reports and licenses belong to the company. Octo works only in the approved environment.
Architecture
Picks the format

Spreadsheet, database or organized folder, matching how the team already works.
Development
Builds the table

Licenses, conditions, evidence, deadlines and campaigns.
Review
Checks with the person in charge

The professional of record reviews the table before it counts.
Release
Delivers with your OK

The table goes wherever the team says.
Documentation
Records the version

Which text of the law and the resolutions was used, and when.

Octo does not grant licenses, carry out environmental studies or sign dredging reports. The decision belongs to the environmental agency, and the technical report to the professional of record.

Each requirement, its basis.

What the law and the resolutions require in licensing and dredging. The official text remains the reference.

Requirement	Basis	What it requires
Individual emergency plan	Law 9.966/2000, art. 7	To combat pollution by oil and harmful or hazardous substances
Environmental audit	Law 9.966/2000, art. 9	Biennial and independent
Incident reporting	Law 9.966/2000, art. 22	Immediate, to the environmental agency, the Harbor Master's Office and the petroleum regulator
Who licenses	Complementary Law 140/2011, art. 13	A single level of government per project
General rules	Law 15.190/2025, art. 1	General Environmental Licensing Law
Procedures	CONAMA Resolution 237/1997	Basis for licensing procedures and criteria
Dredged material	CONAMA Resolution 454/2012, reference rule	Characterization, reference levels, disposal and monitoring

From request to routine.

Three steps. Each one only makes sense once the previous one has shown results on your team.

A proposal, not a promise

1 Today

License folder

Octo gathers the licenses and conditions the team already has.

License per facility
Conditions with deadlines

Benefit: the team sees everything in one place

2 Next

Evidence per condition

Each condition now has the report that proves it.

Table with the status of each one
Alert before expiration

Benefit: nothing expires without warning

3 Later

Campaigns recorded

Each dredging campaign is recorded with what the license required.

Volume, sampling, classification and disposal
Monitoring per campaign

Benefit: the next campaign starts from the previous one

Confirmed by source.

Each point below has a source published by the agency responsible for the standard or the system, or by the IMO. The sources are in the next section.

points with a published source, each with its reference alongside.

ConfirmedWhat Law 9.966/2000 requires of the port: The organized port and the port facility have facilities or means to receive and treat waste and combat pollution, individual emergency plans for pollution by oil and harmful or hazardous substances, and carry out independent biennial environmental audits. Incidents in the port are reported immediately to the environmental agency, the Harbor Master's Office and the petroleum regulator.Source: Planalto, Law 9.966/2000, arts. 5, 7, 9 and 22
ConfirmedA single level of government licenses: Projects and activities are environmentally licensed or authorized by a single level of government.Source: Planalto, Complementary Law 140/2011, art. 13
ConfirmedGeneral Licensing Law: Law 15.190/2025, called the General Environmental Licensing Law, sets general rules for licensing activities or projects that use environmental resources.Source: Planalto, Law 15.190/2025, art. 1
ConfirmedProcedures: CONAMA Resolution 237/1997 governs environmental licensing procedures and criteria and appears in the reference legislation published by a port authority.Source: Rio port authority, reference environmental legislation
ConfirmedLicense and environmental plan: One port authority reported operating with an Operating License and a Basic Environmental Plan, with monitoring programs and reports. This is the port authority's self-reported account to the Ministry of Ports and Airports on the Sustainability Seal form.Source: MPor, Sustainability Seal reports
ConfirmedDredging: the reference rule: CONAMA Resolution 454/2012 is the reference rule for managing material to be dredged in waters under national jurisdiction and its final disposal, and applies to dredging of channels and of the infrastructure of public and private ports and terminals.Source: CONAMA Resolution 454/2012, copy published by the Suape port authority
ConfirmedDredging: characterization and levels: The material to be dredged is characterized, with exemptions provided in the resolution. Physical characterization indicates whether chemical characterization is needed, and the quality of the material is compared to two levels: below Level 1, lower probability of adverse effects on biota; above Level 2, higher probability.Source: CONAMA Resolution 454/2012, copy published by the Suape port authority
ConfirmedDredging: monitoring: Under the reference rule, the monitoring program for the disposal area takes into account the characterization and classification of the dredged material.Source: CONAMA Resolution 454/2012, copy published by the Suape port authority

What Octo does and what stays with you.

Octo prepares everything, but does not sign. The document of record stays with whoever is accountable for it.

Octo prepares

Gathers, calculates, organizes and generates the documents: spreadsheets, campaign reports, condition tables and drafts.

Deliverable: material ready for review

Your team reviews

The licensed professional reviews what Octo delivered before signing. If something doesn't add up, it goes back to Octo with the correction.

Step: review by whoever signs

Who signs

Octo does not sign. Designs, technical reports, ART/RRT, accountability reports and any official document are still signed by the licensed professional of the company or agency: here, the professional of record, who signs the technical report, and the environmental agency, which grants the license.

Signature: professional of record and environmental agency

Sources.

Federal legislation on Planalto, CONAMA Resolution 454/2012 in the copy published by the Suape port authority and documents from the port authorities. Accessed October 31, 2026.

Planalto: Law 9.966/2000Arts. 5, 7, 9 and 22
Planalto: Complementary Law 140/2011Art. 13, a single level of government licenses
Planalto: Law 15.190/2025Art. 1, General Environmental Licensing Law
Suape: CONAMA Resolution 454/2012Reference rule for dredged material, copy published by the port authority
Rio port authority: reference environmental legislationList published by the port authority itself
MPor: Sustainability Seal reportsSelf-reported accounts from the port authorities (2025)

Each condition with its proof.

The assessment starts with the licenses your team already has, without changing anything. You get a proposal for what can be organized and decide with it in hand.

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