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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4715 - AN ACT
SETTING ASIDE TIMBERLAND (UPLAND) AREAS WITHIN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES
IN THE PROVINCE OF CEBU FOR REFORESTATION DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES,
AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Section 1. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources is hereby authorized to set aside timberland (upland) areas which are more or less contiguous and within the Municipalities of Sibonga, Argao, Alcantara, Moalboal, Dalaguete, Badian and Alcoy, all in the Province of Cebu, and to constitute a separate reforestation development area to be known as Southern Cebu Reforestation Development Project, which shall be directly under the Administrator of Reforestation and shall be headed by a Reforestation Development Project Manager, with offices in the Municipality of Argao. Sec. 2. Subject to private rights acquired prior to the approval of this Act, the Bureau of Forestry and the Reforestation Administration, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, shall jointly conduct classification and planting surveys, inspection and delimitation of the timberland areas, which shall be transferred for administration and management to Southern Cebu Reforestation Development Project. Sec. 3. The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources is hereby authorized further, to appropriate out of any unallotted balance from the Reforestation Special Funds and/or any savings therefrom, the necessary amounts to carry out immediately the provisions of this Act: provided, that any appropriation needed thereafter for the operation and maintenance of said project shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. Sec. 4. The Reforestation Administration shall
implement and carry out the provisions of this Act pending the
installation of the offices of the Reforestation Development Project;
and the Administrator of Reforestation shall prepare a staffing pattern
for the effective administration and management of said Reforestation
Development Project. Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 18, 1966. |
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