On his last day in office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador established, through a decree in the Official Gazette of the Federation, a series of specific conditions and deadlines for the consolidation of the Mayan Train, which, he says, is the most important project of his administration in terms of infrastructure, socioeconomic development and tourism.
The work covers an extension of 1,525 kilometers through Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo, where it connects the main cities and tourist sites of the Yucatán Peninsula.
The decree instructs the agencies, deconcentrated administrative bodies, parastatal entities of the federal public administration and productive companies of the State to carry out, within the scope of their powers, a series of actions within the next three months to conclude the integration of the files of the administrative procedures related to the Mayan Train and its associated works.
These actions include the acquisition and expropriation of private and social property, authorizations, permits and concessions in environmental matters; construction permits in federal zone, authorizations in archaeological matters, federal zone concession titles, authorizations in matters of land use change, groundwater use concession titles and wastewater discharge permits, among others.
In addition, it instructs that the legal acts be formalized for the total operation of the seven sections that make up the Mayan Train and its associated works, without their conclusion exceeding the period of six months following the publication of the decree.