2008 / Aug

PROCLAMATION NO. 1607 DECLARING CERTAIN PORTIONS OF LAND SITUATED IN BARANGAYS MANGAN VACA, ANINGWAY-SACATIHAN, MUNICIPALITY OF SUBIC, PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES, AS MANGAN VACA WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR PURPOSES OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING OR IMPROVING ITS WATER YIELD AND PROVIDING RESTRAINING MECHANISM TO INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND USE PRACTICES August 29, 2008

[ PROCLAMATION NO. 1607, August 29, 2008 ]

DECLARING CERTAIN PORTIONS OF LAND SITUATED IN BARANGAYS MANGAN VACA, ANINGWAY-SACATIHAN, MUNICIPALITY OF SUBIC, PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES, AS MANGAN VACA WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE FOR PURPOSES OF PROTECTING, MAINTAINING OR IMPROVING ITS WATER YIELD AND PROVIDING RESTRAINING MECHANISM TO INAPPROPRIATE FOREST EXPLOITATION AND DISRUPTIVE LAND USE PRACTICES



Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law,I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO,President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby establish asMANGAN VACA WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE,a parcel of land situated at Barangays' Mangan Vaca, Aningway-Sacatihan, Municipality of Subic, Province of Zambales, and to withdraw from entry, sale, disposition or settlement subject to prior private rights if any there be, for purposes of protecting, maintaining or improving its water yield and providing a restraining mechanism to inappropriate forest exploitation and disruptive land use practices more particularly described in the Map as follows:
"Beginning at a point marked '1' on the map North 30° 40' East, 5626.23 meters from BLLM No. 1, Subic Cadastre 547-D;
thenceNorth07° 35' East,117.66 metersto corner 2;
thenceNorth44° 11' East,107.50 metersto corner 3;
thenceNorth45° 43' East,163.38 metersto corner 4;
thenceSouth89° 36' East,231.13 metersto corner 5;
thenceNorth63° 40' East,326.46 metersto corner 6;
thenceNorth17° 02' East126.51 metersto corner 7;
thenceNorth39° 28' East152.73 metersto corner 8;
thenceNorth44° 43' East155.73 metersto corner 9;
thenceNorth28° 03' East199.32 metersto corner 10;
thenceNorth12° 58' East330.89 metersto corner 11;
thenceNorth23° 46' East185.94 metersto corner 12;
thenceNorth70° 27' East224.44 metersto corner 13;
thenceNorth81° 00' East238.48 metersto corner 14;
thenceNorth79° 50' East190.02 metersto corner 15;
thenceNorth74° 13' East203.19 metersto corner 16;
thenceNorth81° 17' East189.50 metersto corner 17;
thenceSouth05° 32' West218.11 metersto corner 18;
thenceSouth21° 47' West212.50 metersto corner 19;
thenceSouth10° 37' West288.40 metersto corner 20;
thenceSouth04° 56' West202.62 metersto corner 21;
thenceSouth19° 57' West376.07 metersto corner 22;
thenceSouth10° 41' West323.36 metersto corner 23;
thenceSouth17° 25' West160.07 metersto corner 24;
thenceSouth29° 52' East140.50 metersto comer 25;
thenceSouth18° 34' East148.58 metersto corner 26;
thenceSouth10° 17' East  88.88 metersto corner 27;
thenceSouth66° 30' West638.43 metersto corner 28;
thenceSouth88° 41' West441.38 metersto corner 29;
thenceSouth84° 30' West103.21 metersto corner 30;
thence
Due West
135.00 metersto corner 31;
thenceNorth84° 05' West106.56 metersto corner 32;
thenceNorth63° 14' West131.03 metersto corner 33;
thenceNorth79° 54' West148.29 metersto corner 34;
thenceNorth59° 10' West156.06 metersto comer 35;
thenceNorth27° 32' West186.06 metersto corner 36;
thenceNorth10° 00' West202.03 metersto corner 37;
thenceNorth33° 00' West129.12 metersto corner of beginning
containing an area three hundred hectares (300.0 has) more or less. The foregoing technical description correspondingly modifies Proclamation No. 245, dated January 18, 1956, establishing the Southern Zambales Forest Reserve."
The Watershed Reservation shall be under the administration and management of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in coordination with the Local Government of Subic, the Subic Water District and other stakeholders with the objective of maintaining the area as source of water for domestic and other uses. The production and conservation of water being of primary importance, all other uses of the forest shall be subordinated to that purpose. The Organized Watershed Management Council shall serve as the policy making body in the management of said Watershed whose membership may be expanded to include representatives of major stakeholders.

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

Done in the City of Manila this 29th day of August, in the year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Eight.

(Sgd.) GLORIA M. ARROYO

By the President:

(Sgd.) EDUARDO R. ERMITA
Executive Secretary