Proclamation No. 378




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 378, May 11, 1994 ] ESTABLISHING THE LON-OY WATERSHED AS WATERSHED FOREST RESERVATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING OR IMPROVING ITS WATER QUALITY AND YIELD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION, IRRIGATION, AND OTHER ECOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENT PURPOSES AND PROVIDING FOR RESTRAINING MECHANISMS TO INAPPROPRIATE LAND USE/FOREST EXPLOITATION OF THE PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE BARANGAYS OF LON-OY, BAYABAS, BALBALAYANG AND SASABA, MUNICIPALITIES OF SAN GABRIEL AND SANTOL, PROVINCE OF LA UNION, ISLAND OF LUZON, PHILIPPINES WHEREAS, water supply and ecological enhancement of the LON-OY river catchment basin are indispensable to the socio-economic development and well-being of the Municipalities of Bacnotan, Bauang, San Fernando, San Juan and San Gabriel, Province of La Union, including its adjacent municipalities especially in ensuring adequate water supply for the envisioned industrial and tourism sites in the Northwestern Luzon Growth Quadrangle (NWLGQ) specially those in La Union; WHEREAS, in order to ensure the adequacy and continuity of water supply of the upper reaches and tributaries of the creeks and river channels in the said municipalities, the watersheds must be properly protected, developed, maintained and precluded from inappropriate forest land use/exploitation; WHEREAS, reserving the said parcel of forestland as watershed for human/domestic consumption, irrigation, and other ecological enhancement purposes is deemed for the utmost and long-term benefit of the people of Region I and in support to the countrys push for a NIC-hood status at the turn of the century. NOW THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, upon the joint recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Regional Development Council of Region I, and the Provincial Government of La Union, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and subject to the operation of previous proclamations preserving any portion thereof for specific purposes, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition or settlement, and set aside as watershed for human/domestic consumption, irrigation and other ecological enhancement purposes, the parcel of public domain located in the Barangays of Lon-oy, Bayabas, Balbalayang and Sasaba, Municipalities of San Gabriel and Santos, Province of La Union, Island of Luzon which are specifically described and delineated as follows: From the BLLM No. 1 of San Gabriel, La Union, it being N 75° 22? 4.59" E 9,437.74 meters to a point marked “corner 1” on the plan, a ridge N 72° W from the junction of Padanga and Lon-oy creek with a distance of 490 meters.1aшphi1 Thence N 68° W., 500 m to corner 2; ” N 46° E., 400 m to corner 3; ” N 26° E., 680 m to corner 4; ” N 06° E., 560 m to corner 5; ” N 35° E., 500 m to corner 6; ” N 34° E., 350 m to corner 7; “N 21° E., 930 m to corner 8; “e N 46° E., 420 m to corner 9; ” S 18° E., 1270 m to corner 10; ” S 50° E., 420 m to corner 11; ” S 23° E., 450 m to corner 12; ” S 37° E., 300 m to corner 13; ” S 88° E., 590 m to corner 14; ” S 70° E., 270 m to corner 15; ” S 73° E., 530 m to corner 16; ” S 79° E., 180 m to corner 17; ” S 52° E., 420 m to corner 18; ” S 37° E., 610 m to corner 19; ” S 49° E., 560 m to corner 20; ” S 12° E., 570 m to corner 21; ” S 44° E., 550 m to corner 22; ” D-South, 500 m to corner 23; ” S 12° E., 260 m to corner 24; ” S 28° E., 180 m to corner 25; ” S 34° E., 280 m to corner 26; ” S 55° E., 600 m to corner 27; ” S 27° W., 180 m to corner 28; ” S 06° W., 370 m to corner 29; ” S 36° W., 670 m to corner 30; ” S 05° W., 440 m to corner 31; ” S 76° W., 600 m to corner 32; ” N 86° W., 740 m to corner 33; ” S 81° W., 940 m to corner 34; ” N 38° W., 850 m to corner 35; ” N 24° W., 930 m to corner 36; ” N 14° W., 600 m to corner 37; ” N 69° E., 680 m to corner 38; ” S 83° E., 720 m to corner 39; ” N 77° E., 650 m to corner 40; ” N 06° E., 800 m to corner 41; ” N 17° W., 1150 m to corner 42; ” N 07° E., 200 m to corner 43; ” S 88° W., 730 m to corner 44; ” N 69°, 110 m to corner 45; ” N 77° W., 730 m to corner 46; ” D – West, 300 m to corner 47; ” S 66° W., 670 m to corner 48; ” S 21° W., 350 m to corner 1, the point of beginning containing an approximate area of ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY (1,460) hectares more or less, the area of which shall be under the administrative jurisdiction, supervision and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources through the Forest Management Bureau. The boundaries of the immediate watershed area of the Lon-oy Watershed Forest Reservation, San Gabriel, La Union as described above shall be subjected further to a precise survey on the ground jointly to be undertaken by the Forest Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Provincial Government of La Union to determine the exact area and location of its boundaries. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed. DONE in the City of Manila, this 11th day of May in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Four. (Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS By the President: (Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR. Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation