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Environmental Licensing; Parliamentary Behavior; Multiple Streams Model; Legislative Process.
Today, there are few recent studies that consider the subnational impact on national legislative processes in Brazil. This thesis seeks to continue the study in the line of research on legislative studies with emphasis in the federative perspective and in the role of subnational governments. This study approaches the parliamentary dynamics in scenario of federative conflicts in matters related to the regulatory basis of environmental policy, in particular environmental licensing, an issue in which the federative conflict is clearly characterized. The selected cases are the process that gave rise to Complementary Law n. 140/2011 and the proposal for the Licensing Law (PLP No. 12/2003 and similar). We sought to understand the negotiation process and which guidelines prevailed throughout the process. Tracking of the legislative process and content analysis of 22 interviews were carried out, with emphasis on the analytical narrative from the perspective of interviewed. The framework was Multiple Streams Model. The results indicate that the Complementary Law was able to solve, in part, the problem about the attributions of entities in licensing. The substitute approved in the Chamber for the General Law presents setbacks in the definition of license procedures. It is highlighted that the role of subnational governments proved to be relevant in the two processes considered.