Arch 57 - Environmental Laws

What law details the Philippine Environmental Policy?

PD 1151

What is the EIA?

environmental impact assessment

What is the EIS?

Environmental Impact Statements

establishing an environmental impact statement system

PD 1586

proclaiming certain areas and types of projects as environmentally critical

Proclamation No. 2146

three types of environmentally critical projects

1) Heavy Industries

2) Resource Extractive Industries

3) Infrastructure Projects

has amended the Rules and Regulations Implementing PD 1586

DAO No. 21

The projects specifically exempted from EIA system

(1) discharges minimal amount of wastes and the management of such wastes is relatively easy;

(2) has capitalization of not more than P500.00;

(3) employs not more than twenty persons.

A process which consists of identifying and predicting the impact of proposed projects and programs on the biophysical environment and on man's health and well-being.

Environmental Impact Assessment:

providing for programmatic compliance procedures within the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

DAO No 2000-05

Categories within the scope of programmatic compliance are:

(a) A project subdivided into several phases and/or stages situated in a contiguous area;

(b) a project consisting of several components or a cluster/s of projects co-located in a designated area such as an industrial estate or export processing zone.

What is the EMB?

Environmental Management Bureau

Process of Environmental Impact Statement

(a) Screening.

(b) Scoping

(c) EIS Preparation

(d) Submission of the EIS

How many copies of EIS to be furnished?

Fifteen

What does PD stand for? It is a brief description of the sources of pollution and the controls to be effected.

project description

What is the ECC?

Environmental Clearance Certificate

Fine for violation of the ECC

P50,000

Philippine Environment Code

PD 1152

PD 1152 establishes standards for:

air quality;

water quality management;

land-use management;

natural resources management and conservation;

conservation and utilization of surface and ground waters; and

waste management.

An Act Creating the National Water and Air Pollution Control Commission

RA 3931

National Pollution Control Decree revising RA 3931 including the control of land pollution and environmental disturbances like noise and odor.

PD 984

Providing for the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution from motor vehicles and for other purposes.

PD 1181

What is the LTO?

Land Transportation Office

What is the NPCC?

National Pollution Control Commission

Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

RA 8749

Three Violations of the Clean Air Act

(1)Violation of Standards for Stationary Sources;

(2) Violation of Standards for Motor Vehicles;

(3) Violations of Other Provisions of the Clean Air Act.

National Pollution Control Decree revising RA 3931(again)

PD 984

Code on Sanitation of the Philippines

PD 856

What is the EHS?

Environmental Health Services

The Water Code of the Philippines

PD 1067

Clean Water Act 2004

RA 9275

Marine Pollution Decree

PD 600

creating the National Operation Center for Oil Pollution (NOCOP) in the Philippine Coast Guard in order to enforce the provisions of Presidential Decree 600

PD 602

What is the NOCOP?

National Operation Center for Oil Pollution

Land Transportation Code

RA 4136

regulated the use or attachments of sirens, bells, horns, whistles

PD 96

Prohibits the dumping into any river of refuse, waste matter or substances that may cause an elevation of the river beds,

Commonwealth Act 383

makes unlawful the discharge or deposit into the waters of the Philippines of any petroleum, acid, coal or oil tar or any refuse from any refinery, mill or factory.

Commonwealth Act 4003

Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

RA 9003

Segregation and collection of solid waste shall be conducted at the level

Segregation and collection of solid waste shall be conducted at the barangay level

shall be prepared for the re-use, recycling and composting of wastes generated in their respective jurisdictions.

Government Solid Waste Management Plan

How many years is this GSWMP?

10 Years

Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act

RA 6969

substances that are without any safe commercial, industrial, agricultural or economic usage

Hazardous Waste

hazardous wastes made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incidental to the production or utilization of nuclear fuels

Nuclear Wastes

National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992

RA 7586

NIPAS

National Integrated Protected Areas System

PAMBS

Protected Areas Management Boards

Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act

RA 9147

Revised Forestry Code

PD 705

PD 705 amended by?

PD 1559

Forestry Code

EO 277

Chain Saw Act of 2002

RA 9175

Act Revising and Consolidating all Laws and Decrees affecting Fishing and Fisheries

PD 704

BFAR

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources

prohibiting and punishing electro-fishing

RA 6541

penalties under PD 704 for certain forms of illegal fishing

PD 1058

providing for the exploration, exploitation, utilization and conservation of coral resources

PD 1219

banning commercial trawls and purse seline within a distance of 7km from the shorelines

LOI 1328

directing Secretary of Natural Resources to train barangay officials as deputy fish wardens and/or forest wardens

LOI 1550

Phil. Fisheries Code of 1998

RA 8550

EEZ

Exclusive Economic Zone

Mineral Resources Development Decree of 1974

PD 463

provides all entities engaged in mining to return and rehabilitate and return the lands to their original condition

PD 1198

Declaring Prospecting and Other Mining Operations of Public Use and Benefit

PD 512

promulgated to engage to encourage investment in mining industry

EO 279

People's Small Scale Mining Act

RA 7076

Phil. Mining Act of 1995

RA 7942

National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009

RA 10066

KWF

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino

shall be responsible for significant cultural property pertaining to the performing arts;

Cultural Center of the Philippines

shall be responsible for significant archival materials

National Archives of the Philippines

shall be responsible for rare and significant contemporary Philippine books, manuscripts, newspapers, and electronic records

National Library

shall be responsible for significant movable and immovable cultural property that pertains to Philippine history,

National Historical Institue

shall be responsible for significant movable and immovable cultural and natural property pertaining to collections of fine arts, archaeology, anthropology, botany, geology, zoology and astronomy

National Museum

shall be responsible for the dissemination, development, and the promotion of the Filipino national language and the conservation of ethnic languages.

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino