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Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session
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HOUSE BILL NO,

Introduced By Honorable Isidro S. Rodriguez, Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to repeal Presidential Decree No. 1845, as
amended by PD 1848, as said Decree has lost its purpose. This Decree
was promulgated to protect and secure the safe and uninterrupted
operation of the Earth Station of the Philippine Communications
Satellite Corporation (PHILCOMSAT) at Sitio San Miguel, Pinugay, Baras,
Rizal, from saboteurs or criminal elements in causing damage to this
vital telecommunications facility.

This Earth Station, however, as certified by the National
Telecommunications Commission, has been closed and unoperational
since November 2010.

The Decree sought to be nullified has declared three (3)
kilometers radius of the surrounding area of the Earth Station of
PHILCOMSAT as security zone, consequently, has in effect mandated
all occupants of the land within the security zone who do not own
the land they are occupying or occupants who are not bonafide
tenants of the registered owners, shall vacate the areas they are
occupying within the sixty (60) days from the date of the Decree.


The owners of land within the security zone and/or their agents
can occupy or continue to occupy their respective areas therein only
with the prior written permission of the Minister of National Defense.

Relative to the operation and effectivity of said Decree, the
Municipality of Tanay, Province of Rizal, through its Sangguniang
Bayan Resoultion No. 2011-49A, has requested the Office of the
President for the nullification of the same. In reply to said request, the
Office of the President, through Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa,
Jr., has referred said request to Congress for appropriate action.

With this proposed measure, the land owners, occupants of land
and tenants of registered owners, within the 3 kilometers security
radius of the surrounding area of the Earth Station of PHILCOMSAT
could now freely enter and cultivate their land within the said security
zone.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

ISIDRO S. RODRIGUE:


Republic of the Philippines
House Or REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro-Manila

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 2787

Introduced By Honorable Isidro S. Rodriguez, Jr.

AN ACT
REPEALING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1845, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED,
“DECLARING THE AREA WITHIN A RADIUS OF THREE (3) KILOMETERS
SURROUNDING THE SATELLITE EARTH STATION IN BARAS, RIZAL, A
SECURITY ZONE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Philippines in Congress Assembled:

SECTION 1. Presidential Decree No. 1845 as amended “Declaring
the area within a radius of three (3) kilometers surrounding the
Satellite earth station in Baras, Rizal”, a security zone, is hereby
repealed.


SECTION 2. The Secretary of the National Defense and Chairman
of the National Telecommunications Commission in coordination with
the affected sectors, shall issue the implementing rules and
regulations with in sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act.

SECTION 3. All other laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations,
issuances or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with any of the
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified
accordingly.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved.