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Houise Bil No, 3889

Introduced by: HON. ERICO ARISTOTLE C. AUMENTADO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Ubay airport was built by the Americans before World War Il in Camambugan, Ubay, Bohol. It
was used during the war.

Since then, it has been utilized by light planes

The airport has a land area of 54 hectares owned by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
(CAAP), formerly the Air Transportation Office (ATO). It is located in a flat terrain ideal for an airport
with a huge potential for expansion due to the highly agricultural landscape of Barangay
Camambugan, the airport situs

With the development of Ubay as the commercial, agricultural and tourism service center of Northeast
Bohol, CAAP has included the Ubay Airport in its Annual Investment Plan in 2041. In fact, it has
initially programmed the Ubay Airport development. The site has a runway of two (2) kilometres
expandable even to three (3) kilometres given the vast potential for its expansion therein.

The development of the airport has become imperative in the light of the selection of Ubay — the
biggest town of Bohol in terms of land area, population and income ~ as the tourism service hub in the
northeast corridor under the Bohol Tourism Master Plan crafted by Pacific Consultants Inc. of Japan,

The Ubay Airport, together with its fast developing port, is eyed as a major support infrastructure of
the Multi-Industrial Cluster (MIC) development strategy covered by an executive agreement between
South Korea and the Philippines.

The airport, once upgraded, can accommodate domestic flights to spur tourism, commerce and
industry in the Northeastern Corridor of Bohol and balance the economic development in the province
which is heavily tilted to Tagbilaran City and Panglao Island. For under the Bohol Tourism Master
Plan, the next major tourism destination to be extensively developed will be the scenic eco-heritage
Anda Peninsula with white sandy beaches against the backdrop of lush mountain vegetation, and the
panoramic Mindanao Sea comparable to the beauty of the Mediterranean seascape. The destination
would be thirty (30) minutes ride away from the Ubay Airport,

On the other hand, the world-famous Chocolate Hills in Sagbayan and Carmen, and the eco-
adventure tourism in historic Danao town would be less than an hour away from the Ubay Airport.


Tagbilaran City and Panglao Island are just a little over an hour away in the light of Bohol’s very good
highways.

The airport, furthermore, can host aviation schools and serve as training facility to relieve Mactan-
Cebu International Airport and the Tagbilaran Airport from training flights of aviation students.

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



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
3 Regular Session

Houise Bil No. 9889

Introduced by: HON. ERICO ARISTOTLE C. AUMENTADO

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE UBAY AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT TO ACCOMODATE COMMERCIAL
DOMESTIC AND AVIATION TRAINING FLIGHTS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND.
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

Section 1. Short Title, This Act shall be known as the “Ubay Airport Development Act’.

Sec, 2. Statement of Policy. It is hereby declared as a policy of the State to develop airports
under the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to service areas with strong potentials for
tourism, agro-industrial, commerce and industry to spur the economic development therein. Towards
this end, the Ubay airport is one of those included in the CAAP annual investment plan for
development

Sec. 3. Development Thrust. The Ubay Airport Development Project shall cover its feasibility
study, engineering design, improvement of the existing runway, construction of a terminal building
with appurtenances thereto, installation of navigation and lighting facilities and all the equipments
indispensably required for domestic commercial flights and aviation training flights.

Sec. 4. Appropriations. The funds necessary for the implementation of the Ubay Airport
Development Project shall be sourced from an Official Development Assistance (ODA) concessional
compact loan of Three Million US Dollars (US$3,000,000) from Export-Import Bank of the Republic of
Korea and CAAP’s corporate funds. For this purpose, CAAP is hereby authorized to negotiate such
ODA from the Export and Import Bank and Economic Development Cooperation Fund of Korea and a
possible grant for the feasibility study and detailed engineering design from the Korean International
Cooperation Agency (KOICA)

Sec. 5. Effectivity. This act shall take effect upon its publication in a newspare of general
circulation or the Official Gazette,

Approved,