Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 3538

Introduced by HONORABLE RESURRECCION MARRERO-ACOP, MD

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Engineering districts are key institutional mechanisms in the
implementation of priority infrastructure projects such as the
construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of national roads and
bridges, as well as irrigation and flood control projects in a given
district. These infrastructures serve as building blocks of economic
and social development in the area.

Republic Act No. 8793 enacted on June 27, 2000, created the
Rizal 1st Engineering District which has jurisdiction over
infrastructure and public works in the municipalities of Angono,
Binangonan, Cainta and Taytay of the First (1st) Legislative District
of Rizal, and including Antipolo City. Consequently, the then existing
engineering district office in Pasig was renamed as the Rizal 24
Engineering District with jurisdiction over the municipalities of
Tanay, Jala-Jala, San Mateo, Teresa, Rodriguez, Morang, Baras,
Cardona and Pililia; the same jurisdiction of the Second Legislative
District of the Province of Rizal.

However, since the conversion of Antipolo from a municipality
into a component city of Rizal Province on April 4,1998 under
Republic Act No. 8508, the city has grown to its present status not
only as a highly-progressive but also as the most populous city in
the CALABARZON region with a population of 776,863 as of 2015.
Antipolo City alone consists of two (2) legislative districts. To ensure
the efficient implementation of infrastructure projects in the two
legislative districts of the city, it is imperative that a new engineering
district be created for the City of Antipolo.

This bill seeks to create a separate district engineering office in
the City of Antipolo which shall be known as the Rizal 3
Engineering District, amending for the purpose Republic Act No.
8793. It shall have jurisdiction over infrastructure and public works
in the sixteen (16) composite barangays of the city divided into eight


(8) barangays of each legislative district. It will free the current Rizal
1st Engineering District from the burden of stretching its limited *
resources to provide for the ever-growing public works needs of the
City of Antipolo, as well as facilitate a more focused response to the
developmental requirements of the city.

Under existing guidelines of the Department of Public Works
and Highways (DPWH), the creation of a new district engineering
office (DEO) requires a national road length of less than 100
kilometers for a third class DEO, a land area of 100 square
kilometers, and a population of 250,000 inhabitants. At present,
Antipolo City has a national road length of 98.73 kilometers
(including bridges), a land area of 156.68 square kilometers and a
population of 776,386 inhabitants as of 2015. Thus, the
requirements for the creation of a new DEO are well complied with.

For the foregoing reasons, the immediate approval of the bill is
earnestly sought.

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RESURRECCION MARRERO-ACOP, MD
Representative
2n4 District, Antipolo City


Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. 3538

Introduced by HONORABLE RESURRECCION MARRERO-ACOP, MD

AN ACT
CREATING A SEPARATE DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE IN THE
CITY OF ANTIPOLO, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby created, under the supervision of the Department of
Public Works and Highways, a separate district engineering office in the City of
Antipolo and shall be known as the Rizal Third (3) Engineering District.

SECTION 2. The Rizal Third Engineering District shall be separated from the
Rizal First Engineering District and shall assume jurisdiction over infrastructure
and public works in the First and Second Congressional Districts of Antipolo
City.

SECTION 3. The Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways is
hereby authorized to promulgate and effect rules and regulations necessary for

the effective implementation of this Act.

SECTION 4. The Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways
shall include in the Department's program the funding requirements for the
operationalization of the Rizal Third Engineering District for the year following the
enactment of this Act, the initial funding of which shall be charged against the
current year's appropriations of the Rizal First Engineering District. Thereafter,


the amount necessary for the continued operation of the said district engineering
office shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 5. Republic Act No. 8793 is hereby amended accordingly. All laws,
decrees, executive issuances, rules and regulations inconsistent with this Act are

hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen ( 15) days after its publication in at
least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,