WHEREAS,
under Presidential Decree No. 1251, the "Mine Wastes and Tailings Fee"
shall accrue to the reserve fund to be used exclusively for payment of
damages on lands, agricultural crops and forest products, marine life
and aquatic resources, the destruction of infrastructures, and the
revegetation and rehabilitation of silted farm lands and other areas
devoted to agriculture and fishing caused by pollution due to the
operation of mining companies; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the claims for damages caused by pollution are verified in the
field by the Staff who render their reports to and are reviewed by the
Committee created under the aforesaid Decree;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Committee and its Staff in the performance of their duties
and functions, need field and travel expenses and monthly allowances;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there being no appropriation for the purpose, it is necessary
that such amounts should come from the reserve fund; and
WHEREAS, in view of damages caused to soils by siltation, there is a
need to include the Bureau of Soils as a Member of the Committee;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines by
virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby decree
and order the following: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. The Committee created under Presidential
Decree No. 1251 and its Staff are hereby entitled to actual field and
travel expenses and monthly allowance in an amount not exceeding
P300,000.00 annually to be taken from the reserve fund.
Section 2. The Committee created under Presidential
Decree No. 1251 is hereby expanded to include the Director of the
Bureau of Soils as Members thereof.
Section 3. If any section or provision of this Decree
is held unconstitutional or invalid by a competent court, the other
sections or provisions so annulled or voided had never been
incorporated in this Decree;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 4. All laws, executive orders, decrees, rules
and regulations or part thereof, contrary to or inconsistent with the
provisions of this Decree, are hereby repealed and amended or modified
accordingly. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 5. This Decree shall take effect immediately
upon promulgation.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 8th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and eighty.
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