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Federal zone · Document review

Is the plan you were given complete?

A federal-zone delimitation plan must carry fourteen things, and the list is published in Mexico’s official gazette. Tick off what yours has and we tell you what is missing and what it means. We ask for nothing and you upload nothing.

What actually helps

Upload your plan and we will review it

C.P. Israel Bross reads it and gets back to you. If it is a PDF with a text layer, you also get a preliminary reading right away.

Your plan is NOT published and does NOT travel by email. It is stored on our server and can only be opened from the firm’s panel, with a password. We use it to review it and get back to you. Privacy notice

Or check it yourself

If you would rather not upload anything, tick what your plan has and we give you the same list.

Have the plan in front of you and tick what you find.

Without these, nothing can be verified
Who answers for the plan
So it can be found on the ground
The legal notice

If it carries no date, leave this empty — that is a finding in itself.

See the standard in the official gazette

Why the date on the plan matters

The standard in force, NOM-146-SEMARNAT-2017, took effect on 12 February 2018 and requires horizontal accuracy better than 50 centimetres. Everything surveyed before that was done under the 2005 methodology.

In Baja California Sur that covers the vast majority of published plans. It does not make them invalid — they remain the official delimitation — but it explains why a formal survey can change the answer.

There is a second, less known reason: the standard defines mean high tide as the highest level recorded over thirty consecutive days, drawn from up to nineteen years of records. The line is measured to the centimetre against a reference that moves over time.

This tool checks your plan against the list of elements in Appendix A of NOM-146-SEMARNAT-2017. It does not review the measurement — that requires field work — and does not replace a formal survey before the Dirección General de Zona Federal Marítimo Terrestre y Ambientes Costeros. A formally complete plan is not necessarily a correct delimitation, nor the other way round.

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Something missing from your plan?

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