Chihuahua.– The local address of the National Water Commission (Conagua) since April 13 lacks a computer system, derived from a failure that affects the national system of the agency, for which hundreds of procedures and issues at the state level are suspended.
Among the procedures affected, many of which are via the Internet, are applications for wastewater discharge permits, national surface water concessions, national underground water concessions, concessions for the occupation of federal lands, modification of title or permit, transmission of titles and their registration, extension of concession and/or discharge permits, permission to carry out hydraulic infrastructure works.
Also noteworthy are the requests at the Comprehensive Services Center (CIS), and which are water quality certificates, concession for the extraction of materials, as well as consultations with the REPDA and issuance of certificates.
Julieta Solís, head of Social Communication of the Conagua, responded yesterday that the computer failure will continue until today, Friday, April 21, so they are unable to also provide information that this media outlet has requested.
It was in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on April 19 where they published the agreement suspending the terms and deadlines of the procedures carried out by the National Water Commission, “due to force majeure caused by the computer security incident that occurred on April 13, 2023,” the agency stressed.
It is also established that article 4 of the Federal Law of Administrative Procedure orders that administrative acts of a general nature, such as decrees, agreements and circulars, among others, whose purpose is to establish specific obligations, must be published in the Official Gazette of the Federation to produce legal effects; while the third paragraph of article 28 of the Federal Law of Administrative Procedure, provides that the terms may be suspended due to force majeure or fortuitous event, duly founded and motivated by the competent authority.
Due to the above, “derived from the affectation in the computer systems of the National Water Commission in its Central Offices, Basin Organizations and Local Directorates corresponding to its Regional Hydrological Administrative level, raised on April 13, 2023, in a preventive manner the isolation of the networks and the servers of the same has been carried out, in order to carry out the actions to restore the computer operation.
For this reason, it is necessary to suspend the terms and deadlines of the matters in charge of the aforementioned decentralized administrative body on April 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2023 ”, the decree refers verbatim.
He added that the indicated measure is adopted given the impossibility of the operation of the administrative areas of the Conagua that are in charge of procedures, “except those where contracting procedures were carried out in terms of Acquisitions, Leasing and Services and in matters of Public Works and Related Services, as well as the formalization of the corresponding legal instruments, held on April 13, 2023”.
“The suspension implies that the terms of law do not run for the purposes of the procedures, proceedings and actions in the procedures that are processed or must be processed in the Central Offices of the Conagua, as well as in the Basin Organizations and Local Directorates corresponding to their Regional Hydrological level, in order to give certainty and legal certainty to all those who have matters pending in the aforementioned body”, he stressed.
Affected processes
permissions
•Hydraulic infrastructure works
•Wastewater discharge
concessions
•National surface waters
•National underground waters
• Occupation of federal lands
other
• Change of title or permit
•Transmission of titles and their registration
•Extension of concession and/or discharge permits
•Among others…
Source: Conagua
