Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Manila

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No 293

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.

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TSIGRO S. ROD!

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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Manila

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 2293

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.