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16" Congress
First Regular Session

House Bill No.

Introduced by Honorable Sergio A. F. Apostol

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The island and province of Leyte, populated nearly by a million inhabitants, is
unfortunately a depressed area. Despite its natural resources, potential and ideal climate,
productivity is very low, leaving much to be desired, principally owing to the deplorable lack
of reliable national road complex to facilitate the safe and easy transport of people and
products to ports and markets in and out of the area, and its vital access to and linkage
with the main highways of the region.

This bill proposes to declare and convert the Capoocan Coastal Road, Tunga-
Barugo-Jaro, MacArthur-La Paz-Julita, Tabontabon-Dagami via Digahungan and Pastrana-
Jaro provincial road in the Province of Leyte into a national road. A design calculated to
effect the purposeful at last of an all weather national road network throughout Leyte, even
if maintained merely as gravel but standard national secondary roads, while at the same
time relieving the funds — starved Provincial Government of the duty it can hardly comply
with to repair or to rehabilitate and to improve and maintain them. Considering the scarce
budget resources now available, these are the only access road in Leyte so far specially
chosen for such declaration and conversion, along the imperative need to serve populated
areas and likewise cut through rich, rural agricultural country, thereby hastening the
economic development of those depressed communities.

With the passage of this measure, ensuring as it proposes to achieve not only
completion of such vital infrastructure but also their proper, effective maintenance
improvement, the disappointments, even disillusionment of our people in that part of the
country will then be nothing but a thing of the past. Approval of the bill is therefore
eamestly sought.

HON. SERGIO A. F. APOSTOL
Representative
Second District, Leyte


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

46" Congress
First Regular Session

House Bill No.__ 858

Introduced by Honorable Sergio A. F. Apostol

(AN ACT CONVERTING AND DECLARING CERTAIN ROADS IN THE
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF LEYTE INTO A
NATIONAL ROAD, AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. The (1) Capoocan Coastal Road; (2) Tunga-Barugo-Jaro; (3)
MacArthur-La Paz-Julita; (4) Tabontabon-Dagami via Digahungan; and (5) Pastrana-Jaro
provincial road in the Province of Leyte is hereby converted into a national road.

SECTION 2. The amount necessary for the completion of the construction of said
road shall be charged to existing appropriations of the Department of Public Works and
Highways intended for constructing new national roads, and those needed for their
improvement and maintenance shall continue to be funded out of the lump sum
appropriations authorized by law for the repair and maintenance of local roads until such
time when improvement and maintenance funds for said roads shall have been provided
for in succeeding Appropriations Acts.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval

Approved,