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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 295
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 295
- AMENDING Section 12 OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 137, AS AMENDED, AND
DECLARING THE COMMERCIAL TIMBER WITHIN THE SURIGAO MINERAL RESERVATION
AS AVAILABLE FOR DISPOSITION AND UTILIZATION
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WHEREAS,
pursuant to the provisions of Section Eleven of Commonwealth Act
Numbered One Hundred and Thirty-Seven, as amended, Proclamation 391
dated March 13, 1939 established as mineral land reservation all
mineral deposits and mineral lands in the islands north of Mindanao, in
the province of Surigao, now known as the Surigao Mineral Reservation,
the points, corners and boundaries of which are defined in said
proclamation;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, a subsequent Proclamation No. 721 dated July 9, 1970, declared
part of said reservation consisting of the island of Surigao and all
islets pertaining to it in Surigao del Norte as reverted to the public
domain or public forest, thereby authorizing the commercial utilization
of the timber found therein;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the remaining unreverted area also contains valuable
commercial timber with a total estimated volume of more than 2 million
cubic meters over 270, 107 hectares of upland and mangrove forests;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the economic and social development of Mindanao demands the
tapping of all available natural resources in the area, including the
commercial timber;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Section Twelve of Commonwealth Act One Hundred and
Thirty-Seven, as amended, limits the disposition for mining purposes
only of a land proclaimed as mineral reserve under Sector Eleven
thereof;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and
General Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, do hereby
order the decree that Section Twelve of Commonwealth Act Numbered One
Hundred and Thirty-Seven, as amended, otherwise known as the Mining
Act, shall be, as hereby it is, amended, in as far as its application
to Proclamation No. 391 dated March 13, 1939, as amended by
Proclamation No. 721 dated July 9, 1970 is concerned, by declaring all
commercial timber within the remaining unreverted area of said mineral
reservation as open and available for disposition and utilization,
subject to existing rights, if any there be, and to existing policies,
laws, rules and regulations pertinent thereto. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources shall promulgate
guidelines/regulations for the effective implementation of this Decree,
defining therein, among others, the extent of rights or privileges that
should be extended to any license holder in relations to the objectives
for which the mineral reservation has been established and prescribing
measures to safeguard public interest, particularly of communities that
may be affected and ecological requirements for good environment.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 18th day of September in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and
Seventy-three.
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