Recognizing the right to use and occupy public areas of the Union for riverside populations in
the Amazon region of Pará is a challenge. In this study, the issue of Land Regularization in
floodplain areas of the Union is presented, and the management arrangement elaborated by
the author and adopted and applied by the Union Heritage aiming at solving the problem of
promoting access to citizenship with the riverside extractive population. It is presented as a
case study, the impact of using the public management instrument in promoting land tenure
regularization in floodplain areas along with traditional riverside communities in the
Municipality of Muaná. This way of working land title regularization in floodplain areas is
innovative, considering that in addition to social benefits, it is strictly related to the principles
of sustainable development. This innovative management perspective comes from the use of
the TAUS - Term of Authorization for Sustainable Use, which aims to guarantee the security
of land tenure, ensuring that the property's socio-environmental function is fulfilled,
considering organizational, political and economic aspects. The target audience are the
riverside populations occupying the floodplain areas of federal rivers and islands where the
influence of the tides is felt, as they are in the federal public domain. The legal basis used to
implement this modality of public policy expressed in Ordinance No. 89/2010 which defined
the management arrangement called Sustainable Use Authorization Term (TAUS). With the
application of this term, the security of the possessions and occupations of the areas is
guaranteed. This innovation had its genesis in the State of Pará from the demands of riverine
families, who were under pressure from the "bosses" to accept and be submitted to the socalled
"meação", which is a debasement relationship, where half of what they produced were
forced to deliver to these “alleged owners”. In this secular framework, no family could access
public credit, they found it difficult to reach social security rights, they could not prove their
residence, in addition to the difficulty in obtaining environmental licensing for their rural
activities. Thus, they could not prove residence either, as they did not have SPU/PA
recognition until then. The exploratory and qualitative research showed that the
implementation of the pilot project in the Municipality of Muaná-PA helped riverine
communities in accessing citizenship, as it guaranteed land tenure security, access to credit
(PRONAF), to social security benefits, environmental licensing, proof of residence and
closed-end insurance. In the field, the research obtained several reports of the “liberation” of the target population of the action, since all those who accessed public policy stopped “giving
half” to those who claimed to be owners of public lands. Therefore, the management
arrangement proved to be important, effective and, above all, innovative. The experience
provided subsidies for the application of TAUS in other municipalities in Pará, similar to
those of the pilot experiment, as a way to improve and strengthen public policy.
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