Héctor Velasco Perroni is an attorney at Holland
& Knight's
Mexico City office
Mexico's Agency for Industrial Security and Environmental
Protection in the Hydrocarbons Sector, or Agencia Nacional de
Seguridad Industrial y de Protección al Medio Ambiente del
Sector Hidrocarburos (ASEA), issued an official decree on Jan. 24,
2017, with the purpose of ruling how liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
supply stations shall submit to the federal Environmental Impact
Evaluation process.
According to Article 28 of the General Law on Ecological
Equilibrium and Environmental Protection, or Ley General de
Equilibrio Ecológico y Protección al Ambiente
(LGEEPA), those who wish to build and operate LPG supply stations
must submit to this process in order to obtain an authorization
from the federal government. Until publication of the official
decree, said authorization was requested through the submittal of
an Environmental Impact Assessment, an extensive environmental
study that
