MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 395, May 30, 1994 ]

ESTABLISHING AS BULAWAN FALLS WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR PURPOSES OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING, OR IMPROVING ITS WATER YIELD AND PROVIDING RESTRAINING MECHANISM FOR INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND-USE, A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF DINALUNGAN, PROVINCE OF AURORA, ISLAND OF LUZON, PHILIPPINES

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby withdraw from entry, sale, disposition, or settlement and set aside as Bulawan Falls Watershed Forest Reserve, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to the operations of previous proclamation reserving any portion thereof for specific purposes and to the implementation of socially-oriented projects and other forestry development programs consistent with the objectives of the proclamation as may be determined by the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, a certain parcel of land of the public domain located in the Municipality of Dinalungan, Province of Aurora, as shown in the Forest Management Bureau Map No. 115 with the following descriptions:

Beginning at point “1” on the map, Balakat 20 cm. identical to corner No. 70 of Project 12-1, Timberland, Province of Aurora;

Thence S 82º 00" W, 300 meters to corner 2, Tobog, 30 cm. identical to corner no. 71 of Project 12-1. Timberland;

Thence N 72º 00" W, 200 meters to corner 3, White Lauan, 30 cm. identical to corner no. 72 of Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 76º 00" W, 240 meters to corner 4, White Lauan, 30 cm. identical to corner no. 73 of Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence N 47º 00" W, 800 meters to corner 5, a point on the ground;

Thence N 11º 10" E, 1,152.6 meters to corner 6, a point on the ground;

Thence N 08º 50" W, 851 meters to corner 7, a point on the ground;

Thence N 24º 34" W, 748.7 meters to corner 8, a point on the ground;

Thence N 18º 39" W, 949.6 meters to corner 9, a point on the ground

Thence N 05º 53" E, 1001.5 meters to corner 10, a point on the ground identical to corner 21 of Talaytay Watershed;

Thence S 37º 00" E, 500 meters to corner 11, a point on the ground, identical to corner 11 of Calabgan Watershed;

Thence S 54º 00" E, 990 meters to corner 12, a point on the ground, identical to corner 10 of Calabgan Watershed;

Thence S 69º 00" E, 990 meters to corner 13, a point on the ground, identical to corner 9 of Calabgan Watershed;

Thence S 64º 00" E, 675 meters to corner 14, a point on the ground, identical to corner 8 of Calabgan Watershed;

Thence S 86º 00" E, 600 meters to corner 15, a point on the ground;

Thence S 02º 00" W, 2,080 meters to corner 16, a point on the ground;

Thence S 45º 00" W, 440 meters to corner 17, White Lauan, 25 cm. identical to corner 63, Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 49º 00" W, 260 meters to corner 18, Guijo, 60 cm. identical to corner no. 64 of Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 45º 00" W, 110 meters to corner 19, Kalantas, identical to corner no. 65 of Project no. 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 76º 00" W, 320 meters to corner 20, White Lauan, 60 cm. identical to corner no. 66 of Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 59º 00" W, 220 meters to corner 21, Guijo, 40 cm. identical to corner no. 67 of Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 21º 00" W, 230 meters to corner 22, White Lauan, 25 cm. identical to corner no. 68 Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 38º 00" W, 200 meters to corner 23, White Lauan, 25 cm. identical to corner no. 69 Project 12-1, Timberland;

Thence S 38º 00" W, 200 meters to corner “1” a point of beginning containing an area of NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX (986) HECTARES more or less.1aшphi1

The area covered by the reservation shall be under the administrative jurisdiction, supervision, and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, thru its Forest Management Bureau, in coordination with other agencies of the government with the objective of maintaining its usefulness as a source of water for domestic, agricultural, and other purposes.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th 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


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