PCSD RESOLUTION NO. 15-524

 

“APPROVING THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CATEGORIZATION OF PROJECTS IN THE REVISED PCSD ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 06, SERIES OF 2014”

                                                                                            

WHEREAS, R.A. 7611, otherwise known as the Strategic Environmental Plan (SEP) for Palawan, took effect on 19 June 1992 section 6 of which provides that the SEP shall serve as the framework to guide the government agencies concerned in the formulation of plans, programs and projects affecting the environment and natural resources of Palawan;

 

 

WHEREAS, Section 16 of the same law provides that the governance, implementation and policy direction of the SEP shall be exercised by the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD);

 

 

 

 

 

WHEREAS, Sections 7 to 11 of said Act provides for the establishment of an Environmentally Critical Areas Network (ECAN), the main strategy of SEP, which is a graded system of protection and development control over the whole of Palawan, including its tribal lands, forests, mines, agricultural areas, settlement areas, small islands, mangroves, coral reefs, seagrass beds and the surrounding sea;

 

WHEREAS, Section 19 of the same Act empowers the Council to formulate plans and policies as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the SEP, as well as to adopt, amend and rescind such rules and regulations and impose penalties therefore, for the effective implementation thereof and to perform such other powers and functions as may be necessary in carrying out its functions, powers, and the provisions of the SEP law;

 

            WHEREAS, to ensure the attainment of the present goals and objectives, the PCSD promulgated on October 28, 2014 the PCSD Admin. Order No. 06 or the Revised Guidelines in the Implementation of SEP Clearance System including the categorization of projects, and which became operative on December 11, 2014 after due publication thereof;

 

            WHEREAS, as part of the information campaign and implementation of the above-mentioned administrative order, the PCSDS conducted an Enforcers’ Orientation on February 5 and 6, 2015 with the District Management Office Staffs and personnel as the participants;

 

            WHEREAS, in the said orientation, the participants were able to review the categorization of the projects and suggested revisions to the same;

 

WHEREAS, on February 26, 2015 the above-mentioned revisions as suggested by the participants were presented to the Council for approval;

 

WHEREAS, the Council reviewed the revisions and made their comments to wit;

 

	ACTIVITIES	A (PCSD)	B (EB)	C (EXEMPTED)	D (ED)
1	Agricultural Plantation	Above 50 ha		50 ha and below
2	Agricultural Processing Facility
3	Airports, Airstrips, Helipads
4	Animal Products Processing (Ex: fish/meat processing, canning, slaughterhouse)		***
5	Cement and Ceramic Industries
6	Cemetery
7	Coconut processing plants		Large Scale	Small Scale
8	Community based forest management agreement
9	Coral transplantation and artificial reef
10	Cottage Industry
11	Cutting of planted trees
12	Domestic Wastewater Treatment Facility
	ACTIVITIES	A (PCSD)	B (EB)	C (EXEMPTED)	D (ED)
13	Ecosystem restoration and rehabilitation projects
14	Ecotourism activities cited in PCSD Resolution 06-270
15	Extraction of oil and gas (on-shore and off-shore)
16	Extraction of Ores
17	Facilities for Barangay Micro-Business Enterprises (BMBE) Projects
18	Fast Food/ Restaurant Projects
19	Fishery Aquaculture Projects
20	Forest Land Use Agreement for Tourism Purposes (FLAgT), FLAg and SUP
21	Flowers/ Ornamentals Production/ Landscaping
22	Food preservation
23	SAPA (Special Agreement on Protected Areas)
24	Forest Plantations
25	Fruit and vegetable processing
26	Funeral parlors, crematorium, columbarium		***
27	Garment manufacturing		***
28	Golf Course Projects
29	Grazing Projects
30	Harvesting of NTFPs
31	Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility
32	Hospitals	Tertiary	Secondary		Primary
33	OPD Clinics
34	Hydropower facilities
35	Importation or Purchase of Equipment (Ex: tractors, haulers, dryers, sprayers, etc.)
36	Impounding System or Flood Control Project
37	Industrial and Hospital Waste Treatment Facility
38	Industrial Forest Management Agreement
39	Institutional and Other related facilities and structures		If intended for medical and laboratory purposes	If intended for educational  or religious purposes and not the ownership
	ACTIVITIES	A (PCSD)	B (EB)	C (EXEMPTED)	D (ED)
40	Irrigation System
41	Land Transport Terminal (for buses, jeepneys and other modes of transportation
42	Landfills
43	Leather and related industries
44	LPG Store
45	Manufacture of agrichemicals
46	Manufacture of explosives, propellants, toxic chemical agents and industrial gases
47	Manufacture of glass-based, metal-based, paper and plastic-based products
48	Manufacturing, processing, storage and/or use of substances included in PCL
49	Mineral or Ore Processing
50	Non-timber forest products utilization/projects
51	Organic compost/ Fertilizer-making	If project exceeds 3,000 bags (50kg)/ annum in machine capacity	If incorporated in waste management projects	If project does not exceed 3,000 bags (50kg)/ annum in machine capacity
52	Other Tourism and Leisure Projects/ Activities
53	Other types of Food Processing Industries
54	Other watershed support activities
55	Pearl Farms
56	Pedestrian overpass
57	Petroleum and Petrochemical  Industry Projects
58	Pharmaceutical Industries
59	Ports and Harbors	Generally involves all types of port and harbor projects	Concrete platforms	Fish landing (stilt type), floating/movable/ not permanently anchored platforms	If located in coastal salvage/ easement/ foreshore zone
60	Pottery Projects
61	Poultry and Livestock farms	Above 5,000 heads of birds or above 50 heads of pigs	1,000 heads – 5,000 heads of birds or 6-50 heads of pigs	Less than 1,000 heads of birds or 5 heads of pigs and below
62	Preventive or proactive measures against potential natural hazards
	ACTIVITIES	A (PCSD)	B (EB)	C (EXEMPTED)	D (ED)
63	Private land Timber Permit`
64	Public Markets/ Supermarkets	If project exceeds 1 ha floor area		If project does not exceed 1 ha floor area including parking
65	Quarry		1. Generally all activities (Ex: limestone, mountain and sand) River, Beach and Off-shore Quarry 2. Quarry for Government Projects	Involves Pebble Picking (non-mechanized, of limited volume, for local consumption)
66	Refilling station projects/ Gasoline Station projects
67	Refineries
68	Reforestation Projects
69	Renewable Energy Projects	Plantation,                    Biomass Projects	If located in Terrestrial Multiple Use Zones, Terrestrial Traditional/ Controlled Use Zone, Coastal-Marine Multiple/ General Use Zone and Coastal Marine Buffer Zone		If located in Restricted Use Zone
70	Research	Natural Resource and Genetics Researches			Should register with PCSD
71	Research without collection and extraction

 

 

	ACTIVITIES	A (PCSD)	B (EB)	C (EXEMPTED)	D (ED)
72	Residential Houses, Commercial Buildings, Motels, Hotels, Condominium/ Apartelles	Multi-level restaurants	Hotels Motels, Condominiums, Apartelles, and                                              Single-floor restaurants exceeding 1,000 square meter floor area.	1. Residential Houses   2. Commercial Buildings (below 1,000sq.m. floor area) 3. Lodging Houses (w/ 10 rooms or 1,000 sq.m, floor area, whichever is lower) 4. Small Restaurants below 1,000 square meter floor area.
73	Rice or Corn mills		Above 10 tonnes/hour input capacity	10 tonnes/hour input capacity and below
74	Road Projects	Pilot roads or new openings	Generally involves all types of road construction and projects (Ex: elevated roads, fly-over, tunnels, private roads, farm to market roads, etc.)	1. Bridges of not more than 80 linear meters 2. Road Rehabilitation Projects
75	Sari-sari stores
76	Sewage and sewerage system
77	Shipyard
	Reclamation Projects
78	Socialized Industrial Forest Management Agreement (SIFMA)
79	Soft-impact recreational activities (restricted zones)
80	Special Agreement in Protected Areas
81	Special Land Use Permit
82	Storage Facilities	If involves toxic or hazardous materials; combustible/ flammable materials		If involves non-toxic or non-hazardous materials;  non-combustible/non-flammable materials
	ACTIVITIES	A (PCSD)	B (EB)	C (EXEMPTED)	D (ED)
83	Subdivision, Housing Projects, Resettlement projects, Economic and Socialized Housing project	***
84	Surface coating Industries
85	Telecommunications Projects/ Facilities			If located in Coastal-Marine Multiple Use Zone/ General Use Zone	If located in the Restricted Use Zone
86	Textile, Wood, Rubber Industries
87	Theme parks
88	Thermal power plants
89	Traditional Use of Tribal Communu\ities
90	Waste-to-energy projects
91	Water Supply Systems
	Resorts and other similar facilities
92	Zipline, canopy walks and other similar projects		If project is located in Terrestrial Multiple Use Zone and Terrestrial Traditional/ Controlled Use Zones		If project is located in Restricted Use Zone
	Legend:   ***from Category C

 

WHEREAS, in lieu of the recommendation to periodically renew the SEP Clearance, the staff shall periodically monitor the proponents’ compliance to its terms and conditions;

 

WHEREFORE, upon motion duly seconded, the Council RESOLVES, as it is hereby resolved, TO APPROVE, as it is hereby approved, the AMENDMENTS TO THE CATEGORIZATION OF PROJECTS IN THE REVISED PCSD ADMINISTRAIVE ORDER NO. 06, SERIES OF 2014;

 

RESOLVED FURTHER, that copies of this resolution be sent to all Local Government Units and other concerned agencies in the Province of Palawan for guidance;

 

RESOLVED FINALLY, that copy of this resolution be published in newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Palawan and deposited at the Office of the National Administrative Register at the UP Law Center, Diliman, Quezon City

 

 

 

 

 

RESOLVED AND ADOPTED this 26^th day of February, 2015 in Puerto Princesa City, Philippines.

 

 

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I hereby certify that the above-quoted resolution has been duly adopted by the PCSD on the 26^th day of February 2015.

 

 

NELSON P. DEVANADERA

                                                                               Executive Director

 

ATTESTED BY:

 

 

 

VICTORINO DENNIS M. SOCRATES
Vice Chairman, PCSD

 

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