Although some of the investment programmes cannot be implemented until the lake is filled, many of the activities/projects may be prepared today.

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The area characteristics shown below deal with the Medard Project as a whole.

Name of the place	Medard
Municipalities, which the place is situated in	Bukovany, Chlum Sv. Maří, Citice, Habartov, Sokolov, Svatava
Land Registry area	Chlum Sv. Maří, Lítov, Habartov, Horní Částkov, Bukovany, Dasnice, Citice, Hlavno, Čistá u Svatavy, Svatava and Sokolov
Building Office	Municipal Office of Sokolov
Area	Medard – Libík 1144 hectares, Gustav 220 hectares , Lítov - Boden 698 hectares
Proprietary relations	private, public
Number of owners	largest Sokolovská uhelná a.s., Lesy ČR, Pozemkový fond, smaller areas owned by municipalities and some 12 private persons, a total of ca 21 owners
Restraint of rights in property	no
Number of buildings the built up area of which is above 500m3 on the land parcel	0
Brief characteristics of the area	Brown coal mining was discontinued in the area a short time ago. Now, significant changes are carried out, reclamation works in particular. The Region, mining companies (Sokolovská uhelná a.s. legal successor) and the affected municipalities endeavour to revitalise the area in an essential way. The principal phenomenon to be developed is the Medard lake of an area of some 500 hectares. The contiguous area of the lake-to- be offers convenient localisation of activities related to the area of water (port facilities, camping, restaurants etc.). The areas of adjacent dumps are suitable to situate there other leisure time activities but also to construct conference centres, servicing facilities or social services. In the western parts, there are conditions for developing a full university ground.
Previous prevailing use of the area	open-cast brown coal mining and dump areas
Description of the area	The area is situated inside the ring formed by villages of Bukovany, Chlum Sv. Maří, Citice, Svatava and towns of Habartov and Sokolov
The existing prevailing use of the area	Area partially after reclamation, partially with the reclamation works in progress and partially awaiting reclamation
Functional use of the area according to ÚPD	recreation, sports, housing, public amenities, production, greenery
Environment burdens occurrence	no
Inundated area existence	partially YES (Q 100 the Ohře, Q 100 the Svatava)
Restriction by the landscape	fossil stumps (temporarily protected area), partially regional and supra-regional ÚSES
The most convenient way of using the area in future	recreation, sports, housing, civil amenities, small production – not disturbing, social services
Evaluation of transport availability	The eastern and south-eastern part of the area is situated near I/6 international road. Service of the north and west part is provided by so-called “parallel in the foothills of the Ore Mountains“ – II/181 road and also by road II/210. Connection abroad will be, except for crossing on R6 in the Bavaria in Germany provided primarily to Saxony by I/21 road (Vojtanov/Schönberg crossing ) and for regional and passenger car transport by II/210 (Sokolov – Kraslice/Klingenthal road), or by II/181 and II/212 (Habartov – Luby/Mark Neukirchen road ).